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Sitting Bull Falls

Sitting Bull Falls from directly overhead

Sitting Bull Falls is a park in New Mexico, at a recorded elevation of 1,445 m. Bush Mountain stands 2,626 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Picnic Shelter, a picnic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Guadalupe Back Country Byway passes 4.0 miles off. 55 named places lie within 25 miles, 36 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1445 m
Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates32.24476, -104.69696
Around it

55 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 36
Springs: 8
  • Grapevine Spring: 18.1 mi
  • Jurnigan Spring: 19.7 mi
  • Bell Spring: 21.5 mi
  • Soldier Spring: 23.2 mi
  • Smith Spring: 23.4 mi
Nature reserves: 3
  • Parks Ranch Caves: 19.5 mi
  • Chosa Draw Area of Critical Environmental Concern: 19.6 mi
  • Blue Spring Area of Critical Environmental Concern: 23.7 mi
Historic sites: 2
Parks: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Shelter: 0.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
Museums: 1
  • Frijole Ranch Museum: 24.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bush MountainSSW 206°2,626 m24.3 mi
Hunter PeakSSW 199°2,517 m24.2 mi
Lost PeakSSW 206°2,383 m21.1 mi
Deer HillSSW 209°2,135 m13.0 mi
Cutoff MountainSW 217°2,114 m21.6 mi
Panorama PeakSSW 213°2,051 m17.1 mi
Coyote PeakSW 214°2,026 m20.8 mi
Plowman PeakSSW 214°1,992 m18.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3819:11
June solstice05:5319:3320:09
September equinox06:4818:2518:57
December solstice06:5716:2116:59

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434854627079807771625144

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dark Canyon Road, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • black maidenhair fern49 obs
  • Painted Damsel40 obs
  • Springwater Dancer32 obs
  • Smooth Sotol31 obs
  • Apache plume29 obs
  • Texas madrone27 obs
  • Agarita25 obs
  • Mexican buckeye24 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/692495216

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