Alkire Park
Alkire Park is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 323 m. Hayes Peak stands 1,375 m to the southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Tocha Park, a park 0.3 miles away.
What the record says
- Built
- 1954
- Elevation
- 323 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tocha Park: 0.3 mi
- Coffelt-Lamoreaux Park: 0.4 mi
- Learning Tree Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Ninos Park: 0.5 mi
- Matthew Henson Park: 0.7 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Arizona Law Enforcement K9 Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Ernest W. McFarland Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Father Eusibio Kino Statue: 1.0 mi
- Navajo Code Talkers Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Winged Victory: 1.0 mi
- The Arizona Bolas: 1.8 mi
- Her Secret is Patience: 1.8 mi
- St Francis of Assisi: 1.9 mi
- St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta: 1.9 mi
- Tea House: 2.2 mi
- Arizona State Fairgrounds: 2.4 mi
- Cadillac Graveyard: 3.0 mi
- Mill of Madness: 5.9 mi
- Axe Adventures: 7.0 mi
- Dobbins Lookout: 6.5 mi
- Two Peaks: 6.7 mi
- Mount Suappoa: 7.2 mi
- Maricopa Peak: 7.2 mi
- Twin Butte: 7.4 mi
- Japanese Friendship Garden: 2.2 mi
- Dry Garden: 2.2 mi
- Phoenix Rose Garden: 2.5 mi
- Bio Garden: 3.3 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 3.5 mi
- Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum: 1.0 mi
- Phoenix Police Museum: 1.5 mi
- Phoenix Trolley Museum: 1.6 mi
- Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center: 1.7 mi
- Arizona Science Center: 2.0 mi
- Las Lomitas Picnic Ground: 6.2 mi
- Piedras Grandes Picnic Ground: 6.2 mi
- Elliot Ramada: 8.4 mi
- Ramada #1: 9.9 mi
- Ramada #2=: 9.9 mi
- Rio Salado Audubon Center: 1.6 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 5.9 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 5.9 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Chinese Wall: 7.0 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 23.8 mi
- Morrells Wall: 24.2 mi
- Sven Slab: 24.8 mi
- Marinette: 15.2 mi
- Illinois: 15.8 mi
- Mountain Spring: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Alkire Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes Peak | SW 224° | 1,375 m | 15.4 mi |
| Montezuma Peak | SSW 199° | 1,313 m | 18.2 mi |
| Quartz Peak | SSW 209° | 1,235 m | 16.1 mi |
| McDowell Peak | NE 46° | 1,230 m | 22.3 mi |
| Butterfly Mountain | SSW 207° | 1,221 m | 15.8 mi |
| Thompson Peak | NE 48° | 1,214 m | 21.9 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | NE 45° | 1,192 m | 22.1 mi |
| Montezuma Sleeping | SW 214° | 1,113 m | 15.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:40 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:05 | 19:42 |
| September equinox | 06:17 | 17:54 | 18:27 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 58 | 63 | 69 | 77 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 84 | 73 | 61 | 53 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — South Phoenix, 4 mi away.
- stinknet142 obs
- Brittlebush98 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle97 obs
- Rock Pigeon80 obs
- House Finch59 obs
- Verdin55 obs
- Curve-billed Thrasher54 obs
- Black Phoebe54 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/756938294
Day trips start here
- Greater Phoenix · 1 mi
- Phoenix · 5 mi
- Guadalupe · 9 mi
- Scottsdale · 10 mi
- Tempe · 11 mi
- Mesa · 16 mi
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