Cave Buttes Recreation Area
Cave Buttes Recreation Area is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 500 m. Bronco Butte stands 1,461 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Union Hills, a peak 1.5 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 500 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Union Hills: 1.5 mi
- Union Peak: 2.0 mi
- Dixie Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Adobe Mountain: 5.3 mi
- Middle Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Pinnacle Park at Desert Peak: 2.2 mi
- Apache Wash Trailhead: 2.4 mi
- Desert Broom Park: 2.9 mi
- John W. Teets Park: 3.0 mi
- Deer Valley Motorcycle Park: 3.3 mi
- Jeep Wreck: 3.6 mi
- Arch: 5.1 mi
- Trail Maintenance Tool Box: 9.7 mi
- Bunny Rock: 10.2 mi
- Spur Cross Stables: 11.6 mi
- iron statue: 5.1 mi
- Frank Lloyd Wright Spire: 9.3 mi
- Cloud 9: 10.1 mi
- Anthem Veterans Memorial: 10.6 mi
- David C. Uribe: 11.2 mi
- Paseo Highlands Agave Grotto: 5.9 mi
- Mountain Pass Pedestrian Bridge: 7.8 mi
- Mountain Pass Pedestrian Bridge: 7.8 mi
- Mountain Pass Pedestrian Bridge: 7.8 mi
- Our Lady of Lourdes & Saint Bernadette Grotto: 8.4 mi
- Jims Spring: 8.6 mi
- Apache Spring: 9.1 mi
- Grapevine Spring: 9.9 mi
- Burro Springs: 12.0 mi
- Ringneck Spring: 12.1 mi
- Xeric Garden: 6.3 mi
- Desert Defenders Native Seed Garden: 6.3 mi
- Garden: 8.8 mi
- The Potted Plant Inc.: 9.7 mi
- Still Standing Shade Stop: 12.5 mi
- Sahuaro Central Museum: 7.0 mi
- Cave Creek Museum: 8.4 mi
- Penske Racing Museum: 8.6 mi
- Mercantile: 8.7 mi
- Pioneer Arizona History Museum: 8.8 mi
- Maricopa Area 3: 10.3 mi
- Tewa Area 5: 10.4 mi
- Havasupi Area 8: 10.5 mi
- Pima Area 4: 10.5 mi
- Yavapai Area 10: 10.6 mi
- Buffalo Ridge Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Desert Enclave Preserve: 6.5 mi
- Reach 11 Recreation Area: 6.5 mi
- Cave Creek Regional Park: 6.7 mi
- P.A. Seitts Preserve: 7.5 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 13.8 mi
- Morrells Wall: 14.0 mi
- Sven Slab: 14.3 mi
- West Point: 15.6 mi
- White Bluffs: 19.3 mi
- Wranglers Roost: 13.9 mi
- Marinette: 16.3 mi
- Gillett: 21.0 mi
- Camp Creek Falls: 16.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.0 miles of Cave Buttes Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronco Butte | NE 39° | 1,461 m | 15.0 mi |
| Black Mesa | NNE 14° | 1,430 m | 13.7 mi |
| New River Mesa | NNE 15° | 1,426 m | 14.4 mi |
| Apache Peak | NE 47° | 1,375 m | 15.0 mi |
| Continental Mountain | NE 40° | 1,356 m | 13.2 mi |
| East End | ESE 105° | 1,240 m | 14.2 mi |
| McDowell Peak | ESE 112° | 1,230 m | 13.7 mi |
| Thompson Peak | ESE 115° | 1,214 m | 14.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:40 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:06 | 19:43 |
| September equinox | 06:17 | 17:54 | 18:26 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:46 | 17:24 |
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 | 55 | 57 | 63 | 70 | 78 | 87 | 92 | 92 | 86 | 75 | 62 | 53 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Phoenix Deer Valley Muni AP, 3 mi away.
- triangle-leaf bursage178 obs
- Creosote Bush114 obs
- Queen93 obs
- rush milkweed53 obs
- stinknet35 obs
- Spotted spurge30 obs
- Leafhopper Assassin Bug27 obs
- Western Honey Bee25 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 node/359253975
Day trips start here
- Phoenix · 16 mi
- Scottsdale · 17 mi
- Fountain Hills · 20 mi
- Greater Phoenix · 21 mi
- Tempe · 23 mi
- Guadalupe · 25 mi
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