Victor Romero Rose Garden
Victor Romero Rose Garden is a garden in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 792 m. Mount Lemmon stands 2,794 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Soccer Ball, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Sky Island Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Canyon del Oro High School
How to reach it
- 13.1 mi off the Sky Island Scenic Byway, National
- 30.0 mi off the Patagonia-Sonoita Scenic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Seven Cateracts Vista · 14 mi
- Thimble Mountain Vista · 14 mi
- Windy Point · 15 mi
- Geology Vista · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- James D. Kriegh Park: 0.2 mi
- Riverfront Park: 1.6 mi
- Tohono Chul: 2.4 mi
- Steam Pump Ranch: 2.5 mi
- The Bluffs Neighborhood Park Ramada: 2.8 mi
- Pusch Peak: 1.9 mi
- The Cleaver: 2.4 mi
- Bighorn Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Rosewood Point: 3.0 mi
- Table Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Finger Rock Spring: 4.3 mi
- Pima Spring: 4.7 mi
- Buster Spring: 5.3 mi
- Cargodera Spring: 7.9 mi
- Wooden Trough Spring: 8.6 mi
- Mason Center: 4.6 mi
- Honey Bee Canyon Park: 5.8 mi
- Silverbell Hills Estates: 6.6 mi
- Ina Silverbell Parcel: 7.0 mi
- Countryside Vistas: 7.5 mi
- Soccer Ball: 0.1 mi
- Dream It, Then Do It: 0.1 mi
- Baseball: 0.1 mi
- Baseball: 0.2 mi
- Joshua Tree: 2.0 mi
- Children's Garden: 2.5 mi
- Hummingbird Garden: 2.5 mi
- Spanish Colonial Courtyard: 2.5 mi
- Ethbotanical Garden: 2.5 mi
- Desert Palm Oasis: 2.5 mi
- Geology Wall: 2.5 mi
- Crested Saguaro: 2.5 mi
- The Window: 6.6 mi
- Rio Grande Steel Sided Caboose 01433: 7.0 mi
- Mural No tell Motel: 8.5 mi
- Arizona Heroes Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Sun Circle: 5.5 mi
- Saguarohenge: 5.8 mi
- Valley of the Moon: 7.2 mi
- Catalina Mountain School: 7.2 mi
- Children’s Museum Oro Valley: 2.6 mi
- Degrazia Gallery in the Sun: 5.9 mi
- Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum: 6.9 mi
- H. H. Franklin Auto Museum: 7.3 mi
- The Mini Time Machine Museum: 8.7 mi
- Picnic Area: 6.4 mi
- Cactus Picnic Area: 9.8 mi
- Overlook Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Lower Bear Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- Marshall Gulch Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
- Walter's Cascade: 3.8 mi
- Seven Falls: 12.1 mi
- Seven Catarcts: 14.3 mi
- Tanque Verde Falls: 20.2 mi
- Ernie's Falls: 20.9 mi
- Honey Bee Canyon: 5.5 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 14.6 mi
- Mr Meanor Wall: 14.7 mi
- Alcatraz: 14.7 mi
- Sun Spot: 16.6 mi
- American Flag: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.4 miles of Victor Romero Rose Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lemmon | ENE 66° | 2,794 m | 11.6 mi |
| Mount Bigelow | E 79° | 2,606.6 m | 15.2 mi |
| Marshall Peak | ENE 74° | 2,530 m | 12.4 mi |
| Spencer Peak | ENE 76° | 2,493 m | 13.7 mi |
| Syke Knob | ENE 73° | 2,426 m | 13.5 mi |
| Cathedral Rock | E 84° | 2,425.64 m | 7.5 mi |
| Samaniego Peak | NE 54° | 2,312 m | 11.1 mi |
| Marble Peak | ENE 63° | 2,297 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:28 | 18:03 | 18:36 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 18:59 | 19:35 |
| September equinox | 06:13 | 17:50 | 18:22 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:46 | 17:23 |
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 | 52 | 55 | 60 | 67 | 76 | 85 | 88 | 86 | 81 | 72 | 60 | 52 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tohono Chul, 3 mi away.
- Vermilion Flycatcher172 obs
- saguaro171 obs
- Desert Spiny Lizard137 obs
- Chain-fruit Cholla87 obs
- Desert Cottontail86 obs
- fishhook barrel cactus78 obs
- Gambel's Quail74 obs
- Graham's nipple cactus71 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/943129045
Day trips start here
- Tucson · 13 mi
- Saguaro National Park · 29 mi
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