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Menlo Park

Menlo Park from directly overhead

Menlo Park is a park in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 715 m. Cathedral Rock stands 2,426 m to the northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Santa Cruz Gateway, a artwork 0.4 miles away. Sky Island Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates32.22670, -110.99107

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Sentinel Peak: 1.1 mi
  • Tumamoc Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Tolson Peak: 2.5 mi
  • Enchanted Peak: 2.9 mi
  • Bactrian Summit: 3.2 mi
Springs
  • Finger Rock Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Pima Spring: 12.2 mi
  • Rancho Fundoshi Spring: 12.6 mi
  • Rock Ledge Spring: 13.2 mi
  • Barrel Spring: 13.4 mi
Artworks: 56
Gardens: 54
  • El Rio Community Garden: 0.4 mi
  • Alene Dunlap Smith Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Mission Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Desert Survivors: 1.4 mi
  • Sonoran Landscape Laboratory: 2.2 mi
Attractions: 48
  • Snob Hollow: 0.9 mi
  • Tucson Presidio: 1.0 mi
  • The big "A": 1.1 mi
  • La Pilita Mural: 1.2 mi
  • Goddess of Agave: 1.2 mi
Museums: 24
Historic sites: 24
Picnic sites: 10
Waterfalls: 7
Cliffs: 6
  • Honey Bee Canyon: 15.8 mi
  • Jailhouse Rock: 17.2 mi
  • Mr Meanor Wall: 17.2 mi
  • Alcatraz: 17.2 mi
  • Sun Spot: 19.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.7 miles of Menlo Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cathedral RockNE 38°2,425.64 m14.0 mi
Window PeakNE 37°2,277 m13.0 mi
Mount KimballNNE 32°2,213.56 m12.3 mi
Little KimballNE 35°2,171 m12.0 mi
Gorp PeakNE 35°2,037 m11.5 mi
Rattlesnake PeakNE 48°2,030.51 m14.2 mi
Prominent PointNNE 30°2,017.75 m11.1 mi
Finger GuardNNE 30°1,972.4 m11.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2918:0418:36
June solstice05:1918:5819:34
September equinox06:1317:5018:22
December solstice07:2216:4717:24

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545763697887888783736253
Precip in0.90.80.60.30.20.32.02.61.70.60.60.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tucson WFO, 2 mi away.

  • saguaro322 obs
  • Mourning Dove276 obs
  • Vermilion Flycatcher220 obs
  • Creosote Bush218 obs
  • Rock Pigeon180 obs
  • Greater Roadrunner171 obs
  • Brittlebush163 obs
  • ocotillo160 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/463126485

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