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Water Wise Demonstration Garden

Water Wise Demonstration Garden from directly overhead

Water Wise Demonstration Garden is a garden in New Mexico, at a modelled elevation of 1,622 m. Sandia Crest stands 3,255 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Veterans Monument Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Corrales Road passes 2.8 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Fee
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates35.24332, -106.66595

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Veterans Monument Park: 0.0 mi
  • Rio Rancho Sports Complex: 1.0 mi
  • Chianti Park: 1.1 mi
  • Sabana Heights Park: 1.2 mi
  • Vista Sandia Park: 1.2 mi
Peaks
Attractions
Artworks: 50
  • Rams: 1.5 mi
  • Cibola High Painted Parking Spaces: 2.7 mi
  • The Bell Keepers: 3.7 mi
  • BEER HERE: 5.2 mi
  • Tree of Life: 7.4 mi
Museums: 29
Historic sites: 29
Picnic sites: 24
Springs: 20
  • Artesian Well: 8.9 mi
  • Drinking Fountain Spring: 10.6 mi
  • Piedra Lisa Spring: 11.0 mi
  • Media Spring: 12.6 mi
  • Osha Spring: 13.0 mi
Gardens: 15
  • Japanese Memorial Garden: 8.8 mi
  • Desert Oasis Teaching Garden: 8.9 mi
  • Wildlife Habitat: 9.0 mi
  • South Garden: 9.0 mi
  • Curandera Garden: 10.3 mi
Nature reserves: 5
  • Rio Rancho Bosque Preserve South Entrance: 4.7 mi
  • Rio Rancho Bosque Nature Preserve: 5.8 mi
  • Paseo de la Mesa Open Space: 7.8 mi
  • Trailhead: 12.0 mi
  • Sandia Mountain Natural History Center: 18.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Waterfalls: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of Water Wise Demonstration Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sandia CrestE 101°3,255 m12.4 mi
North Sandia PeakE 93°3,184 m11.8 mi
The NeedleE 95°3,127 m11.7 mi
The ThumbESE 103°3,081 m12.2 mi
The ChimneyE 100°3,051 m12.1 mi
TombstoneE 97°3,048 m12.1 mi
JawboneESE 106°3,014 m13.5 mi
South Sandia PeakESE 122°2,982 m15.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4519:19
June solstice05:5319:4820:25
September equinox06:5518:3219:05
December solstice07:1216:2016:59

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F374250576576807771594637
Precip in0.50.50.30.50.60.61.21.71.21.30.50.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RIO Rancho #2, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Gambel's Quail47 obs
  • Greater Roadrunner32 obs
  • Fourwing Saltbush32 obs
  • tree cholla32 obs
  • Southwestern Fence Lizard31 obs
  • gypsum phacelia31 obs
  • House Finch31 obs
  • Cooper's Hawk28 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/1473440095

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