Palmer Park
Palmer Park is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 360 m. Quartz Peak stands 1,235 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is dog park, a park 0.4 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 22 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 360 m
How to reach it
- 22.3 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
Named places within 25 miles
- dog park: 0.4 mi
- Joyce Park: 0.5 mi
- Dwight Park: 0.8 mi
- Kiwanis Park: 1.0 mi
- Lakeshore Park: 1.0 mi
- The Tilted Landscape: 0.7 mi
- Revolution: 1.5 mi
- Helianthus: 1.6 mi
- Spirit: 2.2 mi
- Celebration: 2.4 mi
- Simply Smashing: 2.2 mi
- Pillar of Knowledge: 2.4 mi
- Axe Adventures: 3.3 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 3.4 mi
- Mill of Madness: 3.9 mi
- Bell Butte: 2.4 mi
- Twin Butte: 2.5 mi
- Hayden Butte: 3.0 mi
- Hole in the Rock: 5.0 mi
- Two Peaks: 5.6 mi
- Peace Pole: 3.7 mi
- Loma del Rio Ruins: 3.7 mi
- Peace Pole: 3.7 mi
- Blue Star Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Never Forget Garden: 3.9 mi
- The Rover Vine: 1.4 mi
- The Learning Patch: 1.4 mi
- Secret Garden: 2.4 mi
- Life Sciences Courtyard: 2.5 mi
- Escalante Community Garden: 3.4 mi
- Tempe History Museum: 0.7 mi
- Pixypros Selfie Museum: 1.0 mi
- Arizona State University Art Museum: 2.4 mi
- Arizona Heritage Center: 4.1 mi
- Hall of Flame Fire Museum: 4.5 mi
- Ramada #1: 0.7 mi
- Ramada #2=: 0.7 mi
- Ramada #5: 0.8 mi
- Ramada #6: 0.8 mi
- Ramada #7: 0.8 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Desert Breeze Hummingbird Habitat: 5.0 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 5.4 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 5.7 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Chinese Wall: 7.1 mi
- Coon Bluff: 20.0 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 21.8 mi
- Morrells Wall: 22.2 mi
- Sven Slab: 22.7 mi
- Illinois: 6.1 mi
- Mountain Spring: 21.0 mi
- Marinette: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.2 miles of Palmer Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quartz Peak | WSW 238° | 1,235 m | 20.1 mi |
| McDowell Peak | NNE 20° | 1,230 m | 20.2 mi |
| Butterfly Mountain | WSW 237° | 1,221 m | 19.5 mi |
| Thompson Peak | NNE 22° | 1,214 m | 19.3 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | NNE 19° | 1,192 m | 20.1 mi |
| Montezuma Sleeping | WSW 242° | 1,113 m | 20.2 mi |
| Santan Mountain | SE 138° | 949 m | 19.6 mi |
| Sunrise Peak | NNE 30° | 935 m | 17.9 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 | 06:17 | 17:53 | 18:26 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:47 | 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, 3 mi away.
- Rosy-faced Lovebird169 obs
- stinknet89 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle86 obs
- Mallard72 obs
- Rock Pigeon59 obs
- American Coot49 obs
- Great Blue Heron48 obs
- Mourning Dove47 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/853282674
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