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Spook Hill Recreation Area

Spook Hill Recreation Area from directly overhead

Spook Hill Recreation Area is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 482 m. Superstition Peak stands 1,541 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Red Mountain Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 6.5 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
482 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates33.44282, -111.65847

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Red Mountain Park: 0.7 mi
  • Brown Road Park: 0.8 mi
  • Basin 806: 0.9 mi
  • Falcon Hill Park: 0.9 mi
  • Owners Club Park: 1.1 mi
Peaks
  • Falcon Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Brown Road Butte: 1.1 mi
  • Twin Knolls: 1.9 mi
  • Stone Mountain: 2.0 mi
  • Whisper Mountain: 2.1 mi
Historic sites
  • Balbir Singh Sodhi: 1.4 mi
  • Memorial Crypts: 1.7 mi
  • Mausoleum: 1.8 mi
  • Boeing Veteran's Memorial: 4.0 mi
  • Lost Dutchman Gold Route: 6.6 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Vertuccio Farms: 7.1 mi
  • Christmas on Comstock: 7.2 mi
  • Superstition Mountain Museum: 9.0 mi
  • T38 Talon: 9.2 mi
  • Engine 2355: 9.4 mi
Gardens: 54
  • Ethno-botanical Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Entryway Garden: 7.3 mi
  • Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 9.0 mi
  • Pioneer Park Rose Garden: 9.5 mi
  • Mesa Urban Garden: 9.9 mi
Springs: 53
  • Cottonwood Spring: 9.8 mi
  • Hackberry Spring: 13.0 mi
  • Second Water Spring: 14.8 mi
  • Willow Spring: 15.4 mi
  • Hidden Water Spring: 16.5 mi
Museums: 35
Picnic sites: 28
Nature reserves: 16
  • Usery Mountain Regional Park: 3.0 mi
  • Humming Bird/Butterfly Habitat: 15.3 mi
  • Burrowing Owls Habitat: 15.3 mi
  • Chaparral Habitat: 15.5 mi
  • Burrowing Owls Habitat: 15.7 mi
Cliffs: 15
Beaches: 4
  • Illinois: 13.3 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 14.0 mi
  • Back Beach: 19.6 mi
  • Fish Beach: 19.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Massacre Falls: 12.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.0 miles of Spook Hill Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Superstition PeakE 98°1,541 m15.0 mi
Ironview PeakE 91°1,531 m12.1 mi
The FlatironE 92°1,419 m11.8 mi
Superstition MountainsE 94°1,398 m13.9 mi
Weaver's NeedleE 92°1,388 m16.6 mi
Thompson PeakNNW 328°1,214 m16.5 mi
Geronimo HeadENE 75°1,060 m16.3 mi
Black Top MesaE 87°1,024 m16.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3118:0618:39
June solstice05:1819:0419:40
September equinox06:1617:5218:25
December solstice07:2816:4517:24

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545662697887929286746253
Precip in1.41.51.30.40.20.01.21.31.10.60.81.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Mesa, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • saguaro369 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird127 obs
  • House Finch101 obs
  • Vermilion Flycatcher94 obs
  • Brittlebush85 obs
  • Mourning Dove84 obs
  • Canada Goose83 obs
  • Rock Squirrel79 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 node/359276492

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