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Blue Diamond Park

Blue Diamond Park from directly overhead

Blue Diamond Park is a park in Nevada, at a recorded elevation of 1,029 m. Charleston Peak stands 3,632 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Cottonwood Spring, a spring 0.2 miles away. Red Rock Canyon Road runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1029 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates36.04803, -115.40668

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
  • Jump - Double: 2.9 mi
  • Rock Circle: 3.5 mi
  • Old Rusted Vehicle: 4.8 mi
  • Step Down Jump: 4.9 mi
  • Drop: 4.9 mi
Peaks
Parks
  • Oak Leaf Park: 5.3 mi
  • Mesa Park: 5.3 mi
  • Southwest Ridge Park: 5.6 mi
  • Huntingon Cove Park: 6.1 mi
  • Lt. Erik Lloyd Memorial Park: 6.1 mi
Artworks
  • Journey to the West: 12.9 mi
  • Bliss Dance: 13.4 mi
  • The Big Edge: 13.5 mi
  • Statue of Liberty: 13.5 mi
  • Typewriter Eraser, Scale X: 13.6 mi
Springs: 41
  • Cottonwood Spring: 0.2 mi
  • Wheeler Camp Spring: 0.7 mi
  • Mormon Green Springs: 1.6 mi
  • Mud Spring No 2: 2.5 mi
  • Mud Spring No 1: 2.6 mi
Cliffs: 31
  • Blue Diamond Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Keystone Thrust: 5.3 mi
  • Keystone Thrust: 6.4 mi
  • Moderate Mecca: 6.6 mi
  • Brownstone Wall: 6.7 mi
Museums: 23
Gardens: 23
Historic sites: 19
  • Dedication Walkway: 6.1 mi
  • Wilson Homestead: 6.8 mi
  • Joe Zaher: 12.0 mi
  • Charles "Charlie" Kellogg: 12.0 mi
  • Cross for Chad David England (1979-2008): 14.1 mi
Nature reserves: 6
Picnic sites: 3
Waterfalls: 3
  • Little Falls: 20.0 mi
  • Big Falls: 21.5 mi
  • Mary Jane Falls: 21.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.4 miles of Blue Diamond Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Charleston PeakNW 314°3,632 m22.3 mi
Mummy MountainNW 322°3,454 m22.0 mi
Griffith PeakNW 314°3,369 m18.5 mi
Fletcher PeakNW 324°3,122 m20.4 mi
Harris MountainNW 320°3,052 m17.6 mi
Angel PeakNNW 333°2,704 m20.9 mi
Cathedral RockNW 317°2,622 m19.7 mi
Potosi MountainSW 223°2,562 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4618:2018:54
June solstice05:2619:2420:03
September equinox06:3018:0618:40
December solstice06:4915:5216:32

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434652596878848375635042
Precip in1.42.01.40.60.20.10.80.40.60.70.71.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Rock Canyon - SPG MT RCH S, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Creosote Bush498 obs
  • California Barrel Cactus435 obs
  • Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus316 obs
  • Mojave Yucca298 obs
  • Buckhorn Cholla199 obs
  • Branched Pencil Cholla116 obs
  • Desert Spinystar92 obs
  • Eastern Joshua tree78 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/150399827

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