Pleasant Shadows Subdivision Mini Park
Pleasant Shadows Subdivision Mini Park is a park in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 373 m. East End stands 1,240 m to the north, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Park of the Canals, Brinton Desert Botanical Garden, a park 0.3 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 16 miles off.
How to reach it
- 15.6 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Fish Creek Vista · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Park of the Canals, Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 0.3 mi
- Greenbelt Basin: 0.4 mi
- Mesa Meadows Subdivision Water Retention Basin: 0.5 mi
- Old West Valley Subdivision Mini Park: 0.7 mi
- Sun Circle Basin: 0.8 mi
- Mesa Monument: 1.3 mi
- Mesa Grande Cultural Park: 1.9 mi
- Camp Lehi Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Never Forget Garden: 4.9 mi
- Blue Star Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Engine 2355: 2.2 mi
- Scarizona Scaregrounds: 2.2 mi
- King Ben's Castle: 4.4 mi
- Simply Smashing: 6.0 mi
- Lovely Bride: 7.0 mi
- Pioneer Park Grotto: 2.3 mi
- The Builder: 2.3 mi
- Pioneer Park Monument: 2.4 mi
- Autosaurs: 2.4 mi
- W.H. Passey: 2.4 mi
- Sawik Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Hayden Butte: 7.0 mi
- The Peak: 7.0 mi
- Hole in the Rock: 7.4 mi
- Apache Peak: 7.6 mi
- Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 0.3 mi
- Pioneer Park Rose Garden: 2.3 mi
- Mesa Urban Garden: 2.5 mi
- Escalante Community Garden: 4.9 mi
- The Rose Garden at Mesa Community College: 5.0 mi
- Mesa Historical Museum: 0.7 mi
- Arizona Museum of Natural History: 2.4 mi
- idea Museum: 2.5 mi
- Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum: 2.5 mi
- Zarco Guerrero: 2.8 mi
- Public Viewing Area: 5.3 mi
- Elliot Ramada: 7.9 mi
- Ramada #2=: 8.7 mi
- Ramada #1: 8.7 mi
- Ramada #5: 8.7 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 7.0 mi
- Echo Canyon Recreation Area: 9.8 mi
- Desert Breeze Hummingbird Habitat: 11.2 mi
- Usery Mountain Regional Park: 11.8 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 13.3 mi
- Coon Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Chinese Wall: 15.2 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 16.0 mi
- Blue Point: 16.1 mi
- Morrells Wall: 16.3 mi
- Mountain Spring: 15.4 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 18.6 mi
- Agua Chiquita Spring: 21.5 mi
- Hackberry Spring: 21.9 mi
- Second Water Spring: 23.7 mi
- Illinois: 8.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 21.8 mi
- Goldfield Ghost Town: 19.0 mi
- Massacre Falls: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Pleasant Shadows Subdivision Mini Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| East End | N 4° | 1,240 m | 15.9 mi |
| McDowell Peak | N 0° | 1,230 m | 14.5 mi |
| Thompson Peak | N 1° | 1,214 m | 13.5 mi |
| Tom's Thumb | N 1° | 1,196 m | 16.1 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | N 359° | 1,192 m | 14.6 mi |
| Dome Mountain | ENE 77° | 1,009 m | 16.2 mi |
| Pass Mountain | ENE 79° | 1,007 m | 13.0 mi |
| Sunrise Peak | N 11° | 935 m | 11.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 18:06 | 18:39 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:04 | 19:41 |
| September equinox | 06:16 | 17:53 | 18:25 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 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 | 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, 6 mi away.
- Northern Mockingbird24 obs
- stinknet23 obs
- Vermilion Flycatcher22 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle20 obs
- Sonoran Bumble Bee18 obs
- Curve-billed Thrasher14 obs
- Rock Pigeon13 obs
- White-winged Dove11 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/951869177
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