- Elevation, modelled
- 2,068 m
- Tallest summit within 14.4 miles
- Pikes Peak4,302 m · 11.3 mi
- Nearest byway
- Gold Belt Tour15.3 mi off
- Sunset, June solstice
- 20:28local time
- Coordinates
- 38.7711, -104.8540
Shipping Container Farm is a garden in Colorado, at a modelled 2,068 m. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the west-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Bear Sculpture Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Gold Belt Tour passes 15 miles off.
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.4 miles of Shipping Container Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | WNW 295° | 4,302 m | 11.3 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | WNW 296° | 4,073 m | 12.3 mi |
| Devil's Playground | WNW 299° | 3,984 m | 13.3 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | WNW 291° | 3,837 m | 9.8 mi |
| Sentinel Point | WNW 290° | 3,814 m | 14.3 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | W 278° | 3,780 m | 10.9 mi |
| Almagre Mountain | W 281° | 3,768 m | 7.7 mi |
| Mount Rosa | WSW 257° | 3,507 m | 5.2 mi |
- 15.3 mi off the Gold Belt TourNational
Overlooks nearby
- Geologic Overlook · 25 mi
- The Valley Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Tiger: 0.0 mi
- snow leopard: 0.1 mi
- Giraffe Feeding Experience: 0.1 mi
- Domestic Goats: 0.1 mi
- Helen Hunt Falls: 2.9 mi
- The Horns: 1.1 mi
- Mount Cutler: 1.7 mi
- Muscoco Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Mays Peak: 3.1 mi
- Broadmoor Valley Park: 1.2 mi
- Seven Falls Park: 1.5 mi
- Oak Meadows Park: 1.5 mi
- Boddington Field: 1.6 mi
- Broadmoor Bluffs Park: 1.8 mi
- Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures: 1.4 mi
- Children Holding Hands: 2.5 mi
- The Epicenter: 4.1 mi
- Trailblazer: 4.3 mi
- The Great Pumpkin: 4.4 mi
- Mountaineer Train Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Tank: 3.8 mi
- Welcome to Colorado Springs: 4.4 mi
- First Stake Of The Fountain Colony: 4.6 mi
- Pikes Peak Range Riders Memorial: 4.6 mi
- Bear Sculpture Garden: 0.0 mi
- Hillside Gardens: 4.1 mi
- Rock Garden: 4.7 mi
- The Secret Garden: 4.8 mi
- Formal Garden: 4.8 mi
- Penrose Heritage Museum: 1.5 mi
- World Figure Skating Museum: 1.6 mi
- U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum: 4.2 mi
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum: 4.4 mi
- Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum: 4.7 mi
- Point Sublime: 2.0 mi
- Devils Slide: 4.7 mi
- Dakota Hogback: 5.2 mi
- Windy Point: 9.5 mi
- Corral Bluffs: 15.3 mi
- Turkey Roost Picnic Area: 3.0 mi
- Prairie Skipper Picnic Area: 3.0 mi
- Elk Run Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
- South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- South Canyon: 8.3 mi
- Tahama Spring: 5.0 mi
- Seven Minute Spring: 6.8 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 6.9 mi
- Navajo Spring: 7.0 mi
- Soda Spring: 7.0 mi
- Hill: 1.6 mi
- Feather: 1.6 mi
- Ramona: 1.6 mi
- Weimer: 1.6 mi
- Bridal Veil: 1.6 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain State Park: 2.9 mi
- Concrete Coyote: 3.9 mi
- Promntory Point Open Space: 4.9 mi
- Mesa Open Space: 5.3 mi
- Mesa Wildlife Preserve: 6.3 mi
- Lytle: 11.7 mi
- Franceville: 14.1 mi
- Altman: 15.3 mi
- Husted: 16.6 mi
- Gwillimsville: 23.1 mi
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:49 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 53 | 43 | 33 | 26 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruxton Park, 8 mi away.
- Mule Deer90 obs
- Black-billed Magpie83 obs
- Common Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel66 obs
- Prairie Lizard55 obs
- Blue Fungus Beetle40 obs
- Spotted Towhee39 obs
- great mullein38 obs
- garlic mustard36 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
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