Virginia Park
Virginia Park is a park in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 339 m. Hayes Peak stands 1,375 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Coronado Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 29 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 1943
- Elevation
- 339 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department
How to reach it
- 29.1 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Coronado Park: 0.6 mi
- Country Club Oval Park: 0.7 mi
- Monterey Park: 1.1 mi
- Idylwilde Park: 1.1 mi
- Longview Park: 1.2 mi
- Woman: 0.9 mi
- Beyond What We Were: 1.5 mi
- Shachi: 1.9 mi
- Pagoda: 1.9 mi
- Release the Fear: 1.9 mi
- Phoenix Cancer Survivors: 1.6 mi
- An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger Memorial: 1.8 mi
- High Flight: 1.8 mi
- Mayors’ Tree: 1.9 mi
- Civil Hospital Dedication: 1.9 mi
- Entry Garden: 1.8 mi
- Japanese Friendship Garden: 1.9 mi
- Dry Garden: 1.9 mi
- Bio Garden: 2.2 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 2.2 mi
- Tea House: 1.8 mi
- Arizona State Fairgrounds: 2.8 mi
- Phoenix Bat Cave: 3.8 mi
- Cadillac Graveyard: 4.6 mi
- Axe Adventures: 5.9 mi
- Piestewa Peak: 5.2 mi
- Phoenix Mountains: 5.3 mi
- Barnes Butte: 5.4 mi
- The Praying Monk: 5.5 mi
- Camelback Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Children's Museum of Phoenix: 2.0 mi
- Rosson House Museum: 2.1 mi
- Create at Arizona Science Center: 2.1 mi
- Arizona Science Center: 2.2 mi
- Phoenix Police Museum: 2.5 mi
- Elliot Ramada: 5.6 mi
- Yavapai Area 10: 7.3 mi
- Quechan Area 7: 7.3 mi
- Havasupi Area 8: 7.4 mi
- Pima Area 4: 7.4 mi
- Rio Salado Audubon Center: 4.2 mi
- Echo Canyon Recreation Area: 5.5 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 7.4 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 7.7 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 7.7 mi
- Chinese Wall: 9.4 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 19.9 mi
- Morrells Wall: 20.3 mi
- Sven Slab: 20.9 mi
- Coon Bluff: 23.5 mi
- Illinois: 15.2 mi
- Marinette: 15.3 mi
- Mountain Spring: 18.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.1 miles of Virginia Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes Peak | SW 224° | 1,375 m | 19.4 mi |
| East End | NE 46° | 1,240 m | 20.1 mi |
| Quartz Peak | SSW 212° | 1,235 m | 20.0 mi |
| McDowell Peak | NE 47° | 1,230 m | 18.4 mi |
| Butterfly Mountain | SSW 210° | 1,221 m | 19.7 mi |
| Thompson Peak | NE 50° | 1,214 m | 17.9 mi |
| Tom's Thumb | NE 44° | 1,196 m | 19.7 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | NE 46° | 1,192 m | 18.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:40 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:05 | 19:42 |
| September equinox | 06:17 | 17:54 | 18:26 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 57 | 60 | 66 | 73 | 82 | 91 | 96 | 94 | 89 | 77 | 65 | 56 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Phoenix AP, 4 mi away.
- stinknet118 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle60 obs
- Rock Pigeon52 obs
- House Sparrow51 obs
- Western Honey Bee43 obs
- Northern Mockingbird42 obs
- Eurasian Collared-Dove37 obs
- White-winged Dove34 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/933060487
Day trips start here
- Greater Phoenix · 3 mi
- Phoenix · 3 mi
- Scottsdale · 7 mi
- Guadalupe · 9 mi
- Tempe · 9 mi
- Mesa · 14 mi
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