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Moab Giants

Moab Giants from directly overhead

Moab Giants is a museum in Utah, at a modelled elevation of 1,373 m. Castleton Tower stands 2,030 m to the east, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Interactive Track Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Dead Horse Point Mesa Scenic Byway runs past it.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates38.67032, -109.68751

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
  • Brachiosaurus: 0.1 mi
  • Uranium Arch: 1.1 mi
  • Jacks Arch: 2.5 mi
  • Misty's Thumb: 2.5 mi
  • Mirror Gulch: 2.6 mi
Peaks
  • Heat Wave Butte: 1.2 mi
  • Court Point: 2.6 mi
  • Monitor Butte: 2.7 mi
  • Pasture Butte: 2.8 mi
  • Merrimac Butte: 3.0 mi
Springs: 26
  • Courthouse Spring: 3.8 mi
  • Brink Spring: 7.5 mi
  • Matrimony Spring: 7.8 mi
  • Kings Bottom Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Little Mountain Spring: 11.2 mi
Cliffs: 19
  • Ring Arch: 3.8 mi
  • The Great Wall: 5.0 mi
  • The Great Wall: 5.2 mi
  • Marching Man: 7.8 mi
  • Parallel Arch: 8.1 mi
Natural arches: 14
  • Trigon Arch: 8.1 mi
  • Sand Dune Arch: 8.7 mi
  • Tunnel Arch: 9.3 mi
  • Navajo Arch: 9.4 mi
  • Landscape Arch: 9.4 mi
Parks: 12
  • Lions Park: 7.7 mi
  • Moab BMX Park: 9.5 mi
  • Swanny City Park: 9.6 mi
  • Bullick Cross Creek Park: 9.9 mi
  • Moab Pocket Park: 9.9 mi
Historic sites: 6
  • Halfway Stage House - Old Stage Coach Station: 3.9 mi
  • Farmstead History: 9.6 mi
  • Denis Julien Inscription: 17.6 mi
  • False Kiva: 21.4 mi
  • Dewey Suspension Bridge: 22.9 mi
Artworks: 5
Picnic sites: 4
Waterfalls: 4
  • Medieval Chamber: 11.1 mi
  • Mille Creek Falls (Left Hand): 12.3 mi
  • Faux Falls: 19.8 mi
  • "Slytherin Falls": 19.8 mi
Ghost towns: 4
Rest areas: 3
Museums: 2
Nature reserves: 1
  • Scott Matheson Wetlands Preserve: 9.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Moab Giants. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Castleton TowerE 94°2,030 m17.3 mi
Coffee Pot RockESE 106°1,937 m14.2 mi
The KnollSW 214°1,920 m9.7 mi
Aztec ButteSSW 208°1,918 m21.4 mi
Whitbeck RockSW 214°1,880 m13.6 mi
Round MountainESE 103°1,869 m18.0 mi
Beehive ButteSW 220°1,804 m14.3 mi
Hatch PointS 183°1,793 m18.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2318:5619:31
June solstice05:5520:0820:47
September equinox07:0718:4219:17
December solstice07:3416:2017:01

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F324050576778858273584433
Precip in0.60.60.60.70.70.40.70.90.91.10.60.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Arches NP HQS, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/580863321

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