John Stiff Memorial Park
John Stiff Memorial Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 1,127 m. Goat Mountain stands 1,156 m to the northwest, 9.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Amarillo High School Monument, a historic site 0.6 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 64 miles off. 16 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1127 m
How to reach it
- 63.8 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
- 1.6 mi off the Texas Plains Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Amarillo High School Monument: 0.6 mi
- Helicopter Display: 2.7 mi
- Fighter Jet Display: 2.7 mi
- Helium Time Columns Monument and Museum: 2.9 mi
- Helium Monument: 2.9 mi
- Nevermind Park: 0.9 mi
- Radiant Park: 0.9 mi
- Windsor School Park: 1.0 mi
- Ridgecrest Park: 1.3 mi
- Greenways Park: 1.5 mi
- Amarillo Botanical Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Hobo Hills: 3.4 mi
- Ozymandias on the Plains: 3.9 mi
- Amarillo Scaregrounds: 4.0 mi
- Light-Red Cadillac: 4.1 mi
- Wildcat Bluff: 6.2 mi
- Wolf Mountain: 9.2 mi
- Goat Mountain: 9.6 mi
- Coyote Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Cooley Butte: 16.9 mi
- Texas Panhandle War Memorial Center: 2.7 mi
- Don Harrington Discovery Center: 2.9 mi
- AC Museum of natural history: 4.2 mi
- Amarillo Museum of Art: 4.3 mi
- Harrington House: 4.9 mi
- Lois Rice Pavilion: 12.9 mi
- Southeast Park Pavilion: 13.1 mi
- 1: 13.5 mi
- 2: 13.5 mi
- 3: 13.6 mi
- Horse: 5.4 mi
- Heart: 5.5 mi
- Rick Husband: 5.7 mi
- Citizens Bank Plaza White Buffalo: 11.9 mi
- Tex Randall statue: 12.0 mi
- 6th Street Urban Farm: 4.1 mi
- Hope Garden: 4.2 mi
- The Palisades: 8.8 mi
- Fortress Cliff: 20.1 mi
- River Falls: 11.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of John Stiff Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goat Mountain | NW 306° | 1,156 m | 9.6 mi |
| Wolf Mountain | NW 319° | 1,126 m | 9.2 mi |
| Coyote Bluff | NNW 327° | 1,088 m | 11.8 mi |
| Wildcat Bluff | NNW 340° | 1,082 m | 6.2 mi |
| Rotten Hill | NW 313° | 1,035 m | 20.8 mi |
| Five Fingers | NW 310° | 1,030 m | 20.9 mi |
| Cooley Butte | SE 132° | 1,029 m | 16.9 mi |
| Brushy Butte | SE 132° | 1,026 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:52 | 19:26 | 20:00 |
| June solstice | 06:34 | 20:28 | 21:06 |
| September equinox | 07:36 | 19:13 | 19:46 |
| December solstice | 07:53 | 17:01 | 17:40 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 39 | 47 | 54 | 64 | 74 | 77 | 76 | 68 | 57 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bushland 1 WSW, 10 mi away.
- Great-tailed Grackle53 obs
- Canada Goose38 obs
- Ring-billed Gull36 obs
- Black-tailed Prairie Dog33 obs
- field bindweed29 obs
- Mourning Dove23 obs
- Spotted Evening Primrose23 obs
- Mallard22 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/212795792
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