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Santa Fe Park

Santa Fe Park from directly overhead

Santa Fe Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 149 m. Mount Nutt stands 1,522 m to the northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Needles Regional Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. California Historic Route 66 Needles to Barstow Scenic Byway runs past it. 119 named places lie within 25 miles, 25 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
149 m
Getting there

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Coordinates34.84031, -114.60596

Overlooks nearby

Around it

119 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 30
Springs: 29
  • Red Spring: 9.5 mi
  • Sacramento Springs: 10.1 mi
  • Flattop Mountain Spring: 11.7 mi
  • Jackpot Spring: 14.5 mi
  • Warm Springs: 17.3 mi
Peaks: 25
  • Eagle Peak: 9.5 mi
  • Whale Mountain: 11.4 mi
  • Flattop Mountain: 12.6 mi
  • McHeffy Butte: 12.9 mi
  • Boundary Cone: 14.6 mi
Historic sites: 14
  • Duke Watkins Park Marker: 0.5 mi
  • National Old Trails: 0.8 mi
  • Oatman: 8.8 mi
  • Von Schmidt State Boundary: 12.4 mi
  • Fort Mohave: 14.1 mi
Attractions: 7
Museums: 5
  • Needles Regional Museum: 0.0 mi
  • Cool Springs Stations Museum: 21.2 mi
  • Don Laughlin's Classic Auto Exhibition Hall: 22.7 mi
  • Don Laughlin's Classic Car Collection - First Floor Showroom: 22.7 mi
  • Colorado River Museum: 23.4 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Gardens: 2
  • Bella's Garden: 16.9 mi
  • Prayer Garden: 17.7 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Red Rock Falls: 14.5 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • Big Bend Conservation Area: 18.5 mi
Artworks: 1
  • Poki, World's Largest Desert Tortoise: 20.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Laughlin Brake Check Rest Area: 25.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Santa Fe Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NuttNE 40°1,522 m22.3 mi
Battleship MountainNE 38°1,258 m20.5 mi
Thimble MountainNE 50°1,195 m22.2 mi
Black MesaENE 64°1,169 m17.6 mi
Homer MountainNW 307°1,129 m22.3 mi
Ute MountainENE 58°1,101 m16.1 mi
Mount ManchesterNNW 328°1,090 m15.3 mi
Chemehuevi PeakS 173°1,082 m20.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4318:1718:50
June solstice05:2619:1919:56
September equinox06:2718:0318:37
December solstice07:4316:5317:32

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F566067748393999790776455
Precip in0.70.80.50.20.10.00.30.40.30.20.30.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Needles AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Great-tailed Grackle53 obs
  • Creosote Bush34 obs
  • Rock Pigeon12 obs
  • Turkey Vulture10 obs
  • American Coot8 obs
  • Abert's Towhee8 obs
  • Citrine Forktail8 obs
  • Round-tailed Ground Squirrel8 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/255259382

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