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San Juan Park

San Juan Park from directly overhead

San Juan Park is a park in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 747 m. Cathedral Rock stands 2,426 m to the northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Tumamoc Hill, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Sky Island Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

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Coordinates32.20177, -111.01005

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Tumamoc Hill: 0.7 mi
  • West Branch Santa Cruz: 0.8 mi
  • Mission & 36th: 0.8 mi
  • Mission Harbor: 1.1 mi
  • Sentinel Peak Park: 1.2 mi
Peaks
  • Tumamoc Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Enchanted Peak: 1.0 mi
  • Sentinel Peak: 1.2 mi
  • Tolson Peak: 1.2 mi
  • Twin Hills: 2.8 mi
Parks
Springs: 57
  • Finger Rock Spring: 11.9 mi
  • Pima Spring: 14.3 mi
  • Rancho Fundoshi Spring: 14.4 mi
  • Rock Ledge Spring: 15.0 mi
  • Barrel Spring: 15.1 mi
Artworks: 56
  • La Primera Vista: 1.1 mi
  • Tumamoc and the River of Life: 1.3 mi
  • Frida and Diego All Souls Mural: 1.7 mi
  • Be Kind: 2.0 mi
  • Mesquite Garden Archway: 2.1 mi
Gardens: 54
  • Desert Survivors: 1.4 mi
  • Mission Garden: 1.6 mi
  • El Rio Community Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Alene Dunlap Smith Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Sonoran Landscape Laboratory: 4.0 mi
Attractions: 48
  • The big "A": 1.2 mi
  • La Pilita Mural: 2.3 mi
  • Community Mural: 2.3 mi
  • Barrio Histórico District: 2.4 mi
  • Snob Hollow: 2.6 mi
Museums: 24
Historic sites: 23
Picnic sites: 10
Waterfalls: 7
Cliffs: 6
  • Honey Bee Canyon: 17.6 mi
  • Jailhouse Rock: 19.0 mi
  • Mr Meanor Wall: 19.0 mi
  • Alcatraz: 19.0 mi
  • Rocky Point: 20.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.7 miles of San Juan Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cathedral RockNE 37°2,425.64 m16.1 mi
Window PeakNE 37°2,277 m15.1 mi
Mount KimballNNE 32°2,213.56 m14.3 mi
Little KimballNE 34°2,171 m14.0 mi
Gorp PeakNE 34°2,037 m13.5 mi
Rattlesnake PeakNE 46°2,030.51 m16.2 mi
Prominent PointNNE 30°2,017.75 m13.1 mi
Finger GuardNNE 31°1,972.4 m13.1 mi
Conditions

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, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • saguaro456 obs
  • Mourning Dove241 obs
  • Creosote Bush227 obs
  • Mallard205 obs
  • American Coot194 obs
  • ocotillo169 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle165 obs
  • Rock Pigeon153 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/970230224

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