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Sunset Mesa Subdivision Mini Park

Sunset Mesa Subdivision Mini Park from directly overhead

Sunset Mesa Subdivision Mini Park is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 369 m. McDowell Peak stands 1,230 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is City View Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 16 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
369 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates33.38868, -111.81814
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • City View Park: 0.3 mi
  • Sherwood Park: 0.4 mi
  • Heritage Park: 0.6 mi
  • Sagebrush Park: 0.6 mi
  • Aripine Park: 0.7 mi
Attractions
  • King Ben's Castle: 1.1 mi
  • Engine 2355: 2.0 mi
  • JP's Comedy Club: 4.5 mi
  • Scarizona Scaregrounds: 4.7 mi
  • Simply Smashing: 5.3 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Peaks
Gardens: 56
Museums: 40
Picnic sites: 35
Nature reserves: 19
  • Hayden Butte Preserve: 7.3 mi
  • Desert Breeze Hummingbird Habitat: 8.0 mi
  • Burrowing Owls Habitat: 10.7 mi
  • Humming Bird/Butterfly Habitat: 10.7 mi
  • Chaparral Habitat: 10.9 mi
Cliffs: 9
Springs: 5
  • Mountain Spring: 19.6 mi
  • Cottonwood Spring: 19.8 mi
  • Hackberry Spring: 22.9 mi
  • Second Water Spring: 24.7 mi
  • Willow Spring: 24.7 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Illinois: 4.1 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 23.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Massacre Falls: 22.0 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Sunset Mesa Subdivision Mini Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
McDowell PeakN 0°1,230 m18.7 mi
Thompson PeakN 1°1,214 m17.7 mi
Drinkwater PeakN 359°1,192 m18.8 mi
Dome MountainENE 63°1,009 m17.6 mi
Pass MountainENE 62°1,007 m14.4 mi
Santan MountainSSE 157°949 m16.1 mi
Sunrise PeakN 8°935 m15.4 mi
Peak 3004ENE 64°916 m15.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3218:0618:39
June solstice05:1919:0419:41
September equinox06:1617:5318:25
December solstice07:2816:4617:24

Local time (America/Phoenix).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555763697785919085746254
Precip in1.01.11.00.20.20.11.01.30.70.60.60.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tempe ASU, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • stinknet27 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle21 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird19 obs
  • Ornate Tree Lizard18 obs
  • Brittlebush16 obs
  • Mallard14 obs
  • Mediterranean Mantis12 obs
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove11 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/383824380

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