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Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum

Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum from directly overhead

Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum is a museum in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 694 m. Mount Lemmon stands 2,794 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Rio Grande Steel Sided Caboose 01433, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Sky Island Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.27972, -111.01067

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Sweetwater Wetlands: 0.9 mi
  • Meander Bend Park: 1.5 mi
  • Paseo Del Rio Neighborhood Park: 1.5 mi
  • Jacobs Park: 1.5 mi
  • Jacobs Park Soccer Complex: 1.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Silverbell-Goret Open Space: 1.3 mi
  • Painted Sunset Greenway: 1.6 mi
  • Painted Hills Ranch: 2.6 mi
  • Painted Hills Natural Resource Park: 2.9 mi
  • Linear Park: 3.0 mi
Peaks
  • Recoil Peak: 3.7 mi
  • Bactrian Summit: 3.7 mi
  • Twin Hills: 4.3 mi
  • Tumamoc Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Tolson Peak: 4.9 mi
Springs
  • Finger Rock Spring: 7.9 mi
  • Pima Spring: 10.0 mi
  • Buster Spring: 11.3 mi
  • Rancho Fundoshi Spring: 12.6 mi
  • Red Warrior Spring: 12.8 mi
Artworks: 56
  • Tucson Miracle Mile Neon Welcome Sign: 3.3 mi
  • Tropicana Motor Hotel Historic Neon Sign: 3.5 mi
  • Magic Carpet Golf Historic Neon Sign: 3.5 mi
  • Canyon State/The Arizonan Motel Historic Neon Sign: 3.6 mi
  • Medina's Sporting Goods Historic Neon Sign: 3.6 mi
Gardens: 54
  • Mexican Garden Pottery: 2.3 mi
  • Alene Dunlap Smith Garden: 4.2 mi
  • El Rio Community Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Mesquite Bosque: 4.4 mi
  • Meditation Garden: 4.4 mi
Attractions: 45
Historic sites: 23
Museums: 22
Picnic sites: 10
Waterfalls: 7
Cliffs: 6
  • Honey Bee Canyon: 12.4 mi
  • Jailhouse Rock: 17.1 mi
  • Mr Meanor Wall: 17.1 mi
  • Alcatraz: 17.1 mi
  • Sun Spot: 19.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.1 miles of Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LemmonNE 49°2,794 m17.1 mi
Marshall PeakNE 55°2,530 m17.3 mi
Cathedral RockNE 53°2,425.64 m12.3 mi
Samaniego PeakNE 41°2,312 m17.3 mi
Window PeakNE 54°2,277 m11.2 mi
Mount KimballNE 49°2,213.56 m10.2 mi
Little KimballNE 52°2,171 m10.1 mi
Gorp PeakNE 53°2,037 m9.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2918:0418:36
June solstice05:1918:5919:35
September equinox06:1317:5018:22
December solstice07:2216:4617:24

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F535662687685888783726153
Precip in1.00.90.60.30.20.32.02.01.00.70.61.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tucson U OF A #1, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/441860663

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