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Cookes Wagon Road Historical Marker

Cookes Wagon Road Historical Marker from directly overhead

Cookes Wagon Road Historical Marker is a park in New Mexico, at a recorded elevation of 1,391 m. Hornbrook Mountain stands 2,136 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Yucca Plains Historical Marker, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 52 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1391 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.19175, -108.31227
Around it

66 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 52
Parks: 4
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 3
  • Peterson Spring: 22.4 mi
  • Juniper Spring: 23.3 mi
  • Rockhouse Seep: 23.8 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Yucca Rest Area: 3.8 mi
  • Gage Rest Area: 11.3 mi
Historic sites: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cookes Wagon Road Historical Marker. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hornbrook MountainNNW 328°2,136 m22.0 mi
Apache MountainNW 321°2,114 m23.3 mi
Gold HillNW 321°1,982 m20.6 mi
Saddle MountainN 356°1,930 m24.6 mi
Three SistersN 351°1,923 m24.2 mi
Whitetop HillNNW 331°1,909 m20.5 mi
Walker MountainNW 319°1,897 m19.3 mi
Flying W MountainSE 146°1,892 m22.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1818:5319:25
June solstice06:0819:4820:24
September equinox07:0218:3919:11
December solstice07:1116:3617:13

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434753617080818074635142
Precip in0.80.80.30.20.30.22.02.11.20.80.51.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gage, 13 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • soaptree yucca33 obs
  • Gopher Snake2 obs
  • Rose Heath2 obs
  • longleaf ephedra2 obs
  • spear globemallow2 obs
  • purple-nerve cymopterus2 obs
  • Cut-leaf Ironplant2 obs
  • Chihuahuan Raven1 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 node/357612141

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