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Fountain Hills Community Garden

Fountain Hills Community Garden from directly overhead

Fountain Hills Community Garden is a garden in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 494 m. East End stands 1,240 m to the northwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is River Of Time Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 16 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates33.60183, -111.72138

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Kiwanis Park: 0.5 mi
  • Fountain Park: 0.6 mi
  • Desert Vista Dog Park: 0.9 mi
  • Desert Vista Park: 0.9 mi
  • Desert Sonoran Botanical Garden Trailhead: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
  • Veterans Memorial: 0.5 mi
  • Jim Hart Memorial Monument: 2.6 mi
  • Foundation: 7.9 mi
  • Camp Lehi Memorial: 8.5 mi
  • Boeing Veteran's Memorial: 9.2 mi
Peaks
  • Sunrise Peak: 3.5 mi
  • Arizona Dam Butte: 4.2 mi
  • Apache Peak: 4.4 mi
  • Mount McDowell: 4.5 mi
  • Sawik Mountain: 5.1 mi
Attractions
  • Marcus Landslide Loop: 6.8 mi
  • Marcus Landslide Loop Trailhead: 6.8 mi
  • Taliesin West: 7.1 mi
  • Whitman Square: 7.2 mi
  • Morrell's Boulder: 7.6 mi
Springs
  • Mountain Spring: 7.5 mi
  • Agua Chiquita Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Rock Spring: 13.2 mi
  • Sandstone Spring: 13.4 mi
  • Summit Spring: 14.1 mi
Artworks
Gardens: 54
  • Scottsdale Community Garden: 10.9 mi
  • Putting Green: 11.2 mi
  • The Potted Plant Inc.: 11.7 mi
  • Xeriscape Demonstration Garden: 12.0 mi
  • Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 12.1 mi
Museums: 36
Picnic sites: 34
Nature reserves: 20
Cliffs: 13
Beaches: 4
  • Sandy Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Illinois: 19.9 mi
  • Back Beach: 21.0 mi
  • Fish Beach: 21.2 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Massacre Falls: 19.1 mi
  • Camp Creek Falls: 19.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.4 miles of Fountain Hills Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
East EndNW 320°1,240 m7.0 mi
McDowell PeakNW 306°1,230 m6.8 mi
Thompson PeakWNW 299°1,214 m6.0 mi
Tom's ThumbNW 317°1,196 m7.6 mi
Drinkwater PeakNW 304°1,192 m7.1 mi
Herder MountainNE 44°1,122 m14.0 mi
Granite MountainNNW 339°1,072 m13.4 mi
Troon MountainNW 319°1,060 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3118:0618:39
June solstice05:1819:0419:41
September equinox06:1617:5218:25
December solstice07:2816:4517:23

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545762697887929185756354
Precip in1.41.31.30.30.20.10.81.30.80.60.71.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fountain Hills, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • saguaro149 obs
  • American Coot75 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle41 obs
  • American Wigeon36 obs
  • Killdeer33 obs
  • Gambel's Quail31 obs
  • Mallard30 obs
  • Gila Woodpecker25 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/469561486

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