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Heritage Park

Heritage Park from directly overhead

Heritage Park is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 369 m. McDowell Peak stands 1,230 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is City View Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 16 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
369 m

How to reach it

Coordinates33.38745, -111.82769

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
  • King Ben's Castle: 0.5 mi
  • Engine 2355: 2.1 mi
  • Scarizona Scaregrounds: 4.6 mi
  • JP's Comedy Club: 4.8 mi
  • Simply Smashing: 4.8 mi
Artworks
  • Prime Cut & Sew: 1.8 mi
  • D.E.S. Mural: 1.8 mi
  • Desert Rose: 1.9 mi
  • Sonance: 1.9 mi
  • Mesa Musical Shadows: 1.9 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Museums: 40
Picnic sites: 33
Nature reserves: 19
  • Hayden Butte Preserve: 6.8 mi
  • Desert Breeze Hummingbird Habitat: 7.5 mi
  • Burrowing Owls Habitat: 10.8 mi
  • Humming Bird/Butterfly Habitat: 10.8 mi
  • Chaparral Habitat: 11.0 mi
Cliffs: 8
Springs: 3
  • Mountain Spring: 19.7 mi
  • Cottonwood Spring: 20.3 mi
  • Hackberry Spring: 23.5 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Illinois: 3.8 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 24.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Massacre Falls: 22.6 mi
Rest areas: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of Heritage Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
McDowell PeakN 2°1,230 m18.8 mi
Thompson PeakN 3°1,214 m17.8 mi
Drinkwater PeakN 1°1,192 m18.8 mi
Dome MountainENE 64°1,009 m18.1 mi
Pass MountainENE 63°1,007 m14.9 mi
Santan MountainSSE 155°949 m16.3 mi
Sunrise PeakN 10°935 m15.6 mi
Peak 3004ENE 65°916 m15.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3218:0718:39
June solstice05:1919:0419:41
September equinox06:1617:5318:26
December solstice07:2816:4617:24

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555763697785919085746254
Precip in1.01.11.00.20.20.11.01.30.70.60.60.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tempe ASU, 6 mi away.

  • stinknet37 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle26 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird18 obs
  • Ornate Tree Lizard18 obs
  • White-winged Dove13 obs
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove12 obs
  • House Sparrow12 obs
  • Leafhopper Assassin Bug12 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/48331479

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