Cross Orchards Historic Site
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a museum in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,438 m. Chalk Mountain stands 2,466 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Family Memorial Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Dinosaur Diamond passes 4.9 miles off.
The story
Cross Orchards Historic Site is a living history museum located in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is part of the Museums of Western Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Orchards are known for showing how life was on an orchard at the turn of the twentieth century and is considered living history as it is still worked and cultivated regularly. It features a workers' bunkhouse, blacksmith shop, an apple orchard, and a collection of vintage farming equipment. The site includes farm equipment, implements and tools, a period farmhouse, a recreated train depot and Uintah Railway exhibit with railroad cars, an engine and caboose, and historic horse-drawn road-building equipment. It is also home to the largest collection of Uintah Railway cars on the Colorado western slope. At its peak the orchard produced 22,000 apple trees over a 243-acre (0.98 km2) orchard. It is considered the largest orchard for the time in western Colorado. The only land left today is now a 24-acre (97,000 m2) site. The farm is also known to feature celebrations at harvest time where they show the public how apple cider was made.
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Wikidata Q5188370, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Museum of Western Colorado
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Dinosaur Diamond, National
- 12.5 mi off the Grand Mesa, National
Overlooks nearby
- Window Rock · 13 mi
- Otto's Trail · 13 mi
- Book Cliffs View · 13 mi
- Redlands View · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Long Family Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Applewood Park: 1.1 mi
- Coronado Park: 1.1 mi
- Strawberry Acres park: 1.4 mi
- Darla Jean Park: 2.0 mi
- Central Orchard Mesa: 3.6 mi
- Orchard Mesa: 4.2 mi
- Mount Garfield: 4.6 mi
- Whitewater Hill: 5.2 mi
- Little Sister: 6.4 mi
- Maverick: 3.8 mi
- Play Ball: 3.9 mi
- Crucible of Creation 2: 4.4 mi
- bBrick: 4.4 mi
- Chet & Vernie Enstrom (Statue): 4.5 mi
- Bookcliffs Lemon Squeezer: 5.8 mi
- Drop: 7.3 mi
- Pet Wall: 10.0 mi
- Corcoran Point: 10.2 mi
- Bailey Point: 10.5 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 9.3 mi
- Liberty Cap: 10.2 mi
- Tabeguache Trail Play Area: 10.3 mi
- Mica mine: 11.1 mi
- No Thorouhfare Canyon: 13.3 mi
- Rocket Park: 2.8 mi
- Blue Angels: 3.1 mi
- Crossing of the Grand: 3.8 mi
- Last of the Wild Bunch: 3.9 mi
- In memory of children who left us too soon.: 4.6 mi
- unknown pond feature: 4.9 mi
- End Spring: 13.8 mi
- Notch Spring: 14.2 mi
- Corduroy Spring: 14.6 mi
- Thrailkill Spring: 14.7 mi
- Paradise Valley Park Picnic Gazebo: 5.3 mi
- Roofed picnic area: 6.7 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 9.0 mi
- Book Cliffs Picnic Site: 13.2 mi
- Saddlehorn Picnic Area: 13.3 mi
- Clifton Nature Park: 2.7 mi
- West Lake State Wildlife Area: 5.2 mi
- Tillman Bishop State Wildlife Area: 6.5 mi
- McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area: 22.2 mi
- Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area: 23.7 mi
- Main Street Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Mesa County Libraries Discovery Garden: 4.5 mi
- Butterfly House: 4.8 mi
- Rose Garden: 7.0 mi
- Eureka! McConnell Science Museum: 4.2 mi
- Museum of the West: 4.7 mi
- Dinosaur Journey: 14.4 mi
- Carpenter: 7.2 mi
- Dominguez Falls: 19.6 mi
- Arch Tower: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Cross Orchards Historic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalk Mountain | E 79° | 2,466 m | 14.8 mi |
| Corcoran Peak | N 355° | 2,449 m | 15.3 mi |
| Reeder Mesa | ESE 110° | 2,443 m | 13.0 mi |
| Black Ridge | W 263° | 2,173 m | 14.3 mi |
| Barney Hill | E 81° | 2,168 m | 16.5 mi |
| Round Mountain | N 9° | 2,076 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Garfield | ENE 59° | 2,023 m | 4.6 mi |
| Mount Lincoln | ENE 66° | 2,021 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:51 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 20:04 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:13 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 36 | 47 | 54 | 63 | 74 | 80 | 77 | 69 | 55 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grand Junction WFO, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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