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Carpenter Park

Carpenter Park from directly overhead

Carpenter Park is a park in New Mexico, at a modelled elevation of 1,099 m. Blackwater Hill stands 1,334 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Melendez Park, a park 0.6 miles away. 59 named places lie within 25 miles, 6 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates33.37406, -104.51816

59 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 32
  • Melendez Park: 0.6 mi
  • Sertoma Neighborhood Park: 0.6 mi
  • Missouri Avenue Park: 1.1 mi
  • Altursa Park: 1.1 mi
  • Poe Corn Park: 1.3 mi
Historic sites: 10
  • Arch: 2.0 mi
  • Berlin Wall Fragment: 2.1 mi
  • POW/MIA Memorial: 2.1 mi
  • Iron Cross: 2.1 mi
  • Memorial Point: 2.8 mi
Museums: 6
Peaks: 6
Nature reserves: 2
Attractions: 1
  • R H Goddard's Launch Tower: 2.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carpenter Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blackwater HillWNW 289°1,334 m20.5 mi
Haystack MountainNNW 335°1,248 m15.1 mi
Round TopNNW 347°1,239 m24.3 mi
Mesa DiabloENE 70°1,208 m17.8 mi
Panther HillN 353°1,143 m15.8 mi
Comanche HillENE 78°1,110 m8.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3719:10
June solstice05:5019:3520:12
September equinox06:4718:2418:56
December solstice06:5916:1716:55

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394452596777807870604739
Precip in0.40.40.60.71.00.71.91.61.61.50.60.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roswell Climat, 1 mi away.

  • Great-tailed Grackle30 obs
  • White-winged Dove15 obs
  • Rock Pigeon9 obs
  • Red-shouldered Bug7 obs
  • House Sparrow6 obs
  • Couch's Spadefoot5 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel5 obs
  • purple groundcherry4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/458070147

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