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Box Car Museum

Box Car Museum from directly overhead

Box Car Museum is a museum in New Mexico, at a modelled elevation of 2,000 m. South Baldy stands 3,279 m to the south-southeast, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Charles Ilfield Company Warehouse, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Quebradas Back Country Byway passes 20 miles off. 162 named places lie within 25 miles, 60 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates34.11872, -107.24344

Overlooks nearby

Around it

162 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 60
Springs: 35
  • Hell Canyon Spring: 3.6 mi
  • Upper Garcia Canyon Spring: 6.0 mi
  • Garcia Canyon Spring: 6.2 mi
  • Agua Fria Spring: 6.6 mi
  • Strozzi su Spring: 6.7 mi
Artworks: 16
  • EMRTC Rattlesnake: 18.9 mi
  • Bell: 19.0 mi
  • Passage of the Earth and the Sky: 19.5 mi
  • "The Past", "The Present", and "The Future": 19.6 mi
  • The Desert Maiden: 19.6 mi
Historic sites: 15
Attractions: 11
Picnic sites: 10
  • Sandbar Riverine Park: 21.6 mi
  • 1: 23.9 mi
  • 2: 23.9 mi
  • 3: 23.9 mi
  • 4: 23.9 mi
Parks: 7
  • Langmuir Research Site: 12.9 mi
  • NMT Alumni Hill Park: 19.5 mi
  • Sedillo Park: 20.1 mi
  • West Place Park: 20.1 mi
  • School of Mines Heritage Park: 20.3 mi
Gardens: 3
  • López Rose Garden: 19.6 mi
  • Dowdle Family Memorial Garden: 19.6 mi
  • Brown Hall Rose Garden: 19.8 mi
Cliffs: 2
  • Hells Mesa: 13.1 mi
  • Mesa Cencerro: 13.6 mi
Museums: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Box Car Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South BaldySSE 160°3,279 m9.4 mi
Timber PeakSSE 154°3,181 m10.8 mi
Mount WithingtonSW 220°3,077 m21.5 mi
Tower PeakSW 218°3,026 m22.1 mi
North BaldySE 143°3,003 m5.9 mi
A-L PeakSW 221°2,940 m19.1 mi
Ladrón PeakNNE 23°2,780 m23.6 mi
Tip Top MountainESE 118°2,773 m3.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4819:21
June solstice05:5919:4720:24
September equinox06:5818:3419:07
December solstice07:1216:2617:04

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384451586674777569574637
Precip in0.30.30.50.30.40.42.42.11.30.90.40.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Socorro, 21 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/572766599

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