Veterans Center Garden
Veterans Center Garden is a garden in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 476 m. Newman Peak stands 1,368 m to the east-southeast, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Veterans Mural, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. 145 named places lie within 25 miles, 49 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Veterans Center
How to reach it
145 named places within 25 miles
- Veterans Heritage Park: 0.0 mi
- Southwest Gas Site Mini Park: 0.1 mi
- Central Park: 0.2 mi
- City Park: 0.2 mi
- Curiel Street Mini Park: 0.4 mi
- Toltec Buttes: 6.6 mi
- Newman Peak: 9.3 mi
- Picacho Peak: 12.1 mi
- Black Butte: 14.7 mi
- Treadway: 14.9 mi
- Medal Of Honor Monument: 0.0 mi
- Korea War Plague: 0.0 mi
- 10 Commandments Monument: 0.2 mi
- Freedom Monument: 0.2 mi
- Free Mason Lodge Plaque: 0.3 mi
- Veterans Mural: 0.0 mi
- Eloy Chamber Of Commerce Mural: 0.1 mi
- Pinal Martial Arts Mural: 0.2 mi
- Cowgirl Wood Artwork: 0.2 mi
- Horse Wood Artwork: 0.2 mi
- Picacho Peak State Park: 11.4 mi
- Poston Butte Preserve: 22.6 mi
- Simpson Farm: 23.8 mi
- Marana Cottonwoods: 24.8 mi
- Picacho Peak State Park Visitor Center: 11.5 mi
- Rooster Cogburn’s Ostrich Ranch: 13.1 mi
- Sacaton Rest Area: 22.8 mi
- Sacaton Rest Area: 24.1 mi
- Eloy Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Casa Grande Art Museum: 14.6 mi
- Sasco: 16.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Veterans Center Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newman Peak | ESE 105° | 1,368 m | 9.3 mi |
| Silver Bell Peak | S 171° | 1,301 m | 24.1 mi |
| Ragged Top | S 170° | 1,191 m | 21.3 mi |
| Confidence Peak | S 175° | 1,139 m | 23.6 mi |
| Silver Bell Mountains | S 172° | 1,125 m | 23.6 mi |
| Prieta Peak | SW 234° | 1,014 m | 24.2 mi |
| Picacho Peak | SE 132° | 1,011 m | 12.1 mi |
| Wolcott Peak | S 169° | 1,003 m | 21.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:31 | 18:06 | 18:38 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:02 | 19:38 |
| September equinox | 06:15 | 17:52 | 18:24 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 55 | 61 | 69 | 77 | 86 | 91 | 90 | 84 | 73 | 60 | 52 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Eloy 4 NE, 3 mi away.
- Mourning Dove8 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk5 obs
- Desert Broom5 obs
- Round-tailed Ground Squirrel5 obs
- House Finch5 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow4 obs
- Gambel's Quail3 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle3 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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