Jacobs Park
Jacobs Park is a park in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 707 m. Mount Lemmon stands 2,794 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Jacobs Park Soccer Complex, a park 0.2 miles away. Sky Island Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.
How to reach it
- 14.4 mi off the Sky Island Scenic Byway, National
- 24.8 mi off the Patagonia-Sonoita Scenic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Babad Do'ag Viewpoint · 16 mi
- Thimble Mountain Vista · 16 mi
- Seven Cateracts Vista · 17 mi
- Molino Canyon Vista · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jacobs Park Soccer Complex: 0.2 mi
- Jacinto Park: 1.0 mi
- Laguna Park: 1.0 mi
- Juhan Park: 1.2 mi
- Balboa Heights Park: 1.3 mi
- Painted Sunset Greenway: 1.6 mi
- Silverbell-Goret Open Space: 2.1 mi
- Painted Hills Natural Resource Park: 2.4 mi
- Linear Park: 2.8 mi
- Painted Hills Ranch: 2.9 mi
- Tumamoc Hill: 4.0 mi
- Sentinel Peak: 4.0 mi
- Bactrian Summit: 4.0 mi
- Recoil Peak: 4.1 mi
- Twin Hills: 4.6 mi
- Finger Rock Spring: 7.5 mi
- Pima Spring: 9.7 mi
- Buster Spring: 11.3 mi
- Rancho Fundoshi Spring: 11.5 mi
- Red Warrior Spring: 11.9 mi
- Tucson Miracle Mile Neon Welcome Sign: 2.0 mi
- Tropicana Motor Hotel Historic Neon Sign: 2.1 mi
- Magic Carpet Golf Historic Neon Sign: 2.2 mi
- Canyon State/The Arizonan Motel Historic Neon Sign: 2.2 mi
- Medina's Sporting Goods Historic Neon Sign: 2.2 mi
- Mexican Garden Pottery: 0.8 mi
- Alene Dunlap Smith Garden: 3.0 mi
- Sonoran Landscape Laboratory: 3.0 mi
- El Rio Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Krutch Garden: 3.3 mi
- Mural No tell Motel: 1.2 mi
- Rio Grande Steel Sided Caboose 01433: 1.5 mi
- Miracle Mile Historic District: 1.7 mi
- Goddess of Agave: 3.0 mi
- Snob Hollow: 3.0 mi
- Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum: 1.5 mi
- H. H. Franklin Auto Museum: 2.3 mi
- Postal History Foundation: 2.9 mi
- Museum of Art: 2.9 mi
- Arizona State Museum: 3.1 mi
- Sun Circle: 2.6 mi
- N.E. Corner Adobe Wall of Spanish Presidio of Tucson: 3.1 mi
- Dr. Thomas Mixner Memorial: 3.1 mi
- January 8th Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Valley of the Moon: 3.2 mi
- Mam-a-Gah Picnic Area: 10.0 mi
- Juan Santa Cruz Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
- Cactus Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Overlook Picnic Area: 10.8 mi
- Lower Bear Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
- Walter's Cascade: 10.1 mi
- Seven Falls: 13.4 mi
- Seven Catarcts: 16.7 mi
- Tanque Verde Falls: 19.4 mi
- Ernie's Falls: 19.6 mi
- Honey Bee Canyon: 13.0 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 16.0 mi
- Mr Meanor Wall: 16.0 mi
- Alcatraz: 16.1 mi
- Sun Spot: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.5 miles of Jacobs Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lemmon | NE 44° | 2,794 m | 16.8 mi |
| Marshall Peak | NE 50° | 2,530 m | 16.8 mi |
| Cathedral Rock | NE 46° | 2,425.64 m | 11.8 mi |
| Samaniego Peak | NE 36° | 2,312 m | 17.1 mi |
| Window Peak | NE 46° | 2,277 m | 10.8 mi |
| Rose Peak | ENE 63° | 2,214 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Kimball | NE 40° | 2,213.56 m | 9.9 mi |
| Little Kimball | NE 44° | 2,171 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:29 | 18:04 | 18:36 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 18:58 | 19:35 |
| September equinox | 06:13 | 17:50 | 18:22 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 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 | 53 | 56 | 62 | 68 | 76 | 85 | 88 | 87 | 83 | 72 | 61 | 53 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tucson U OF A #1, 1 mi away.
- Mourning Dove516 obs
- Lesser Goldfinch398 obs
- House Finch329 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird167 obs
- Vermilion Flycatcher132 obs
- Cooper's Hawk121 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow115 obs
- Eurasian Collared-Dove103 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 way/229563312
Day trips start here
- Tucson · 7 mi
- Saguaro National Park · 29 mi
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