Recreation Center Park
Recreation Center Park is a park in Nevada, at a recorded elevation of 490 m. Virgin Peak stands 2,422 m to the south, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Library Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Gold Butte Back Country Byway passes 9.6 miles off. 120 named places lie within 25 miles, 29 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 490 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Gold Butte Back Country Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Whitney Pocket Overlook · 20 mi
120 named places within 25 miles
- Hen Spring: 10.0 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 12.4 mi
- Government Spring: 12.8 mi
- North Key West Spring: 13.7 mi
- South Key West Spring: 14.3 mi
- Flat Top Mesa: 4.8 mi
- Lone Mesa: 8.8 mi
- Virgin Hill: 8.9 mi
- Lead Mine Mountain: 10.0 mi
- Lime Kiln Mountain: 10.6 mi
- Library Park: 0.2 mi
- Old Mill Park: 0.2 mi
- Woodbury Park: 0.4 mi
- Pulsipher Park: 0.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
- Flat Top Mesa: 3.8 mi
- Flat Top Mesa: 5.4 mi
- Mormon Mesa: 9.0 mi
- Mormon Mesa: 12.1 mi
- Mormon Mesa: 15.4 mi
- Nevada Welcome Center: 0.6 mi
- Truck Parking I-15 Southbound, Mile 111: 11.0 mi
- Truck Parking I-15 Northbound, Mile 110: 11.0 mi
- Truck Parking I-15 Northbound, Mile 96: 24.7 mi
- Whitney Pocket Day-Use Parking: 20.1 mi
- Whitney Pocket Arch: 20.2 mi
- Neapolitan Arch: 20.3 mi
- Donkey History Museum: 0.3 mi
- Virgin Valley Heritage Museum: 0.4 mi
- Arizona, Nevada, Utah Tri-state Monument: 13.3 mi
- Double Negative: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Recreation Center Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin Peak | S 189° | 2,422 m | 14.4 mi |
| Mount Bangs | E 95° | 2,420 m | 12.1 mi |
| Black Rock Mountain | E 99° | 2,245 m | 14.8 mi |
| Scrub Peak | NE 39° | 2,065 m | 21.8 mi |
| Jarvis Peak | NE 39° | 1,989 m | 24.4 mi |
| Moapa Peak | W 279° | 1,955 m | 21.2 mi |
| Low Mountain | E 84° | 1,954 m | 19.1 mi |
| Mustang Knoll | ESE 104° | 1,857 m | 23.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:41 | 18:14 | 18:48 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:21 | 19:59 |
| September equinox | 06:25 | 18:01 | 18:35 |
| December solstice | 06:46 | 15:44 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 50 | 56 | 63 | 73 | 82 | 89 | 87 | 78 | 66 | 53 | 44 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bunkerville, 4 mi away.
- Gambel's Quail44 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle38 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk31 obs
- Say's Phoebe22 obs
- Greater Roadrunner20 obs
- Ring-necked Duck18 obs
- Mourning Dove17 obs
- Common Side-blotched Lizard16 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/611679026
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