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Queen Creek Botanical Gardens

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Queen Creek Botanical Gardens from directly overhead

Queen Creek Botanical Gardens is a garden in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 429 m. Superstition Peak stands 1,541 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Founders' Park, a park 1.5 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 14 miles off.

Getting there

How to reach it

Coordinates33.22239, -111.64043

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Founders' Park: 1.5 mi
  • Desert Mountain Park: 1.8 mi
  • Victoria Park: 2.0 mi
  • Neighborhood Park: 2.5 mi
  • Mansel Carter Oasis Park: 2.5 mi
Artworks
Peaks
  • Goldmine Mountain: 2.6 mi
  • Round Top: 4.7 mi
  • Santan Mountain: 5.2 mi
  • Rock Peak: 6.0 mi
  • San Tan Mountains: 6.1 mi
Attractions: 56
  • Schnepf Farms: 2.8 mi
  • T38 Talon: 6.3 mi
  • Vertuccio Farms: 8.7 mi
  • Christmas on Comstock: 9.7 mi
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 10.2 mi
Historic sites: 50
  • Desert Wells Stage Stop: 1.9 mi
  • Ammo Bunker (S-1008): 5.4 mi
  • Ammo Bunker (S-1007): 5.5 mi
  • ASU Polytechnic: 6.3 mi
  • 82nd Training Wing, Williams Air Force Base: 6.3 mi
Gardens: 44
  • Community Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Ethno-botanical Garden: 11.2 mi
  • Cremation Garden: 12.0 mi
  • Entryway Garden: 12.4 mi
  • Pioneer Park Rose Garden: 16.9 mi
Museums: 21
Picnic sites: 19
  • Break Area: 14.4 mi
  • Orbital ATK Courtyard: 14.4 mi
  • Public Viewing Area: 17.0 mi
  • Fiesta Ramadas: 20.0 mi
  • Ramada #6: 20.1 mi
Springs: 15
  • Willow Spring: 20.4 mi
  • Cottonwood Spring: 20.7 mi
  • Hackberry Spring: 22.1 mi
  • Crystal Spring: 22.4 mi
  • Bluff Spring Mountain Spring: 22.5 mi
Nature reserves: 13
  • San Tan Mountain Regional Park: 4.7 mi
  • Burrowing Owls Habitat: 7.3 mi
  • Humming Bird/Butterfly Habitat: 7.3 mi
  • Chaparral Habitat: 7.4 mi
  • Burrowing Owls Habitat: 7.4 mi
Cliffs: 6
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Beaches: 1
  • Illinois: 14.3 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Massacre Falls: 19.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.5 miles of Queen Creek Botanical Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Superstition PeakNE 47°1,541 m19.0 mi
Ironview PeakNE 36°1,531 m18.6 mi
The FlatironNE 36°1,419 m18.3 mi
Superstition MountainsNE 42°1,398 m19.2 mi
Dome MountainNNE 16°1,009 m20.1 mi
Pass MountainN 8°1,007 m18.4 mi
Santan MountainSW 230°949 m5.2 mi
Peak 3004N 10°916 m18.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3118:0618:39
June solstice05:1919:0319:40
September equinox06:1517:5218:25
December solstice07:2716:4617:24

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F535662697887919085736052

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chandler Heights, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • cowpen daisy42 obs
  • Western Honey Bee18 obs
  • Orange-crowned Warbler13 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle10 obs
  • Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake10 obs
  • Greater Roadrunner8 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird8 obs
  • Verdin8 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 node/13002547944

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