Escalante Park
Escalante Park is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 361 m. McDowell Peak stands 1,230 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Escalante Community Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 20 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 361 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Tempe
How to reach it
- 19.8 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Alegre Park: 0.4 mi
- Culdesac Park: 0.5 mi
- Esquer Park: 0.5 mi
- Connolly Field: 1.0 mi
- Creamery Park: 1.0 mi
- Simply Smashing: 1.2 mi
- Pillar of Knowledge: 2.3 mi
- Scarizona Scaregrounds: 3.0 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 3.2 mi
- Desert Tents: 3.5 mi
- Spirit of Inquiry: 1.9 mi
- Air Apparent: 1.9 mi
- Spirit: 2.3 mi
- A: 2.3 mi
- 2nd A: 2.3 mi
- Peace Pole: 2.2 mi
- Peace Pole: 2.2 mi
- Never Forget Garden: 2.3 mi
- Blue Star Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Loma del Rio Ruins: 2.8 mi
- Hayden Butte: 2.4 mi
- Hole in the Rock: 3.9 mi
- Bell Butte: 4.3 mi
- Papago Buttes: 4.5 mi
- Twin Butte: 4.6 mi
- Escalante Community Garden: 0.0 mi
- Life Sciences Courtyard: 2.2 mi
- The Rose Garden at Mesa Community College: 2.3 mi
- Secret Garden: 2.4 mi
- The Learning Patch: 2.4 mi
- Zarco Guerrero: 2.3 mi
- Pixypros Selfie Museum: 2.4 mi
- Arizona State University Art Museum: 2.5 mi
- Tempe History Museum: 2.7 mi
- Arizona Heritage Center: 2.8 mi
- Ramada #1: 4.0 mi
- Ramada #2=: 4.0 mi
- Ramada #5: 4.0 mi
- Ramada #6: 4.1 mi
- Ramada #7: 4.1 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Desert Breeze Hummingbird Habitat: 7.5 mi
- Echo Canyon Recreation Area: 8.0 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 8.4 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Chinese Wall: 10.3 mi
- Coon Bluff: 16.7 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 18.8 mi
- Morrells Wall: 19.1 mi
- Sven Slab: 19.7 mi
- Mountain Spring: 18.0 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 23.3 mi
- Goldfield Ghost Town: 23.6 mi
- Marinette: 25.0 mi
- Illinois: 6.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Escalante Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| McDowell Peak | NNE 15° | 1,230 m | 17.2 mi |
| Thompson Peak | NNE 17° | 1,214 m | 16.2 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | NNE 14° | 1,192 m | 17.1 mi |
| Pass Mountain | ENE 75° | 1,007 m | 17.8 mi |
| Sunrise Peak | NNE 26° | 935 m | 14.7 mi |
| Peak 3004 | ENE 76° | 916 m | 18.5 mi |
| Usery Mountain | ENE 69° | 905 m | 15.7 mi |
| Peak 2933 | ENE 71° | 894 m | 16.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 18:07 | 18:40 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:05 | 19:41 |
| September equinox | 06:16 | 17:53 | 18:26 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:46 | 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 | 55 | 57 | 63 | 69 | 77 | 85 | 91 | 90 | 85 | 74 | 62 | 54 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tempe ASU, 2 mi away.
- stinknet174 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle125 obs
- Mallard89 obs
- Rock Pigeon80 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird77 obs
- House Finch75 obs
- Northern Mockingbird74 obs
- House Sparrow72 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/30589030
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