Boulder Mountain
Boulder Mountain rises to 592 m in Arizona. Superstition Peak stands 1,541 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Harriet Tubman Parke, a park 0.3 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 8.6 miles off.
Formerly Spook Hill colloquially; Las Sendas Community Association began using Boulder Mountain c. 1999.
The story
Mountain in Arizona, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49076557, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 592 m
How to reach it
- 8.6 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
- 24.9 mi off the Gila-Pinal Scenic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Fish Creek Vista · 21 mi
- Apache Lake Vista · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Peak 1970: 1.1 mi
- The Peak: 1.6 mi
- Schlechts Butte: 2.1 mi
- Peak 2541: 2.1 mi
- Thunder Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Christmas on Comstock: 9.3 mi
- Engine 2355: 9.3 mi
- Vertuccio Farms: 9.6 mi
- Desert Belle Cruises: 10.2 mi
- Superstition Mountain Museum: 10.3 mi
- Boeing Veteran's Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Balbir Singh Sodhi: 4.1 mi
- Memorial Crypts: 4.4 mi
- Mausoleum: 4.5 mi
- Camp Lehi Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 10.2 mi
- Hackberry Spring: 13.5 mi
- Second Water Spring: 15.4 mi
- Mountain Spring: 15.7 mi
- Hidden Water Spring: 15.8 mi
- Harriet Tubman Parke: 0.3 mi
- Sonoran Hills Tennis Club: 0.4 mi
- Boulder Mountain Parke: 0.4 mi
- Desert Foothills Parke: 0.6 mi
- Sonoran Heights Parke: 0.7 mi
- Lion Statue: 5.4 mi
- Bella Vida Mural: 8.6 mi
- The Need To Know: 8.8 mi
- Pioneer Park Grotto: 9.4 mi
- Pioneer Park Monument: 9.4 mi
- Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 8.3 mi
- Entryway Garden: 8.6 mi
- Ethno-botanical Garden: 8.7 mi
- Fountain Hills Community Garden: 8.8 mi
- Pioneer Park Rose Garden: 9.4 mi
- Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum: 3.9 mi
- Mesa Historical Museum: 8.0 mi
- River Of Time Museum: 8.9 mi
- Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum: 10.0 mi
- Arizona Museum of Natural History: 10.1 mi
- Granite Reef: 2.4 mi
- Public Viewing Area: 3.3 mi
- Phon D Sutton Picnic Site: 4.7 mi
- Goldfield: 6.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 7.7 mi
- Usery Mountain Regional Park: 3.7 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 15.4 mi
- Echo Canyon Recreation Area: 17.0 mi
- Humming Bird/Butterfly Habitat: 17.4 mi
- Burrowing Owls Habitat: 17.4 mi
- Coon Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Blue Point: 8.1 mi
- Razorback Point: 10.9 mi
- Ittindi Rock: 14.4 mi
- Satchin Cliff: 14.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 13.5 mi
- Illinois: 14.2 mi
- Back Beach: 19.5 mi
- Fish Beach: 19.7 mi
- Goldfield Ghost Town: 11.0 mi
- Massacre Falls: 13.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.6 miles of Boulder Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superstition Peak | ESE 107° | 1,541 m | 16.6 mi |
| Ironview Peak | ESE 102° | 1,531 m | 13.4 mi |
| The Flatiron | ESE 103° | 1,419 m | 13.1 mi |
| Superstition Mountains | ESE 103° | 1,398 m | 15.3 mi |
| East End | NNW 333° | 1,240 m | 15.5 mi |
| McDowell Peak | NNW 327° | 1,230 m | 14.8 mi |
| Thompson Peak | NW 325° | 1,214 m | 13.8 mi |
| Tom's Thumb | NNW 331° | 1,196 m | 15.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:31 | 18:06 | 18:39 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:04 | 19:40 |
| September equinox | 06:16 | 17:52 | 18:25 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:45 | 17:23 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 56 | 62 | 69 | 78 | 87 | 92 | 92 | 86 | 74 | 62 | 53 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Mesa, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359273330
Day trips start here
- Fountain Hills · 9 mi
- Mesa · 9 mi
- Gilbert · 11 mi
- Tempe · 14 mi
- Chandler · 15 mi
- Scottsdale · 15 mi
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