Bush Head
Bush Head rises to 1,839 m in Arizona. White Knolls stands 2,090 m to the south-southwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Last Reliable Spring, a spring 2.0 miles away. Fredonia-Vermillion Cliffs Scenic Road passes 8.6 miles off. 43 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Bush Head is a summit in the Coconino County, Arizona. It is about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Buckskin Gulch and located on the Paria Plateau west of the Paria River in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
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Wikidata Q14680297, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,839 m
How to reach it
- 8.6 mi off the Fredonia-Vermillion Cliffs Scenic Road
- 14.7 mi off the Naat' tsis' aan - Navajo Mountain Scenic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic View Vermillion Cliffs · 23 mi
- Lookout Vermillion Cliffs · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wrather Arch: 4.2 mi
- Big Red Rock: 6.1 mi
- Thousand Pockets: 6.4 mi
- Hole in the Rock: 7.1 mi
- Balanced Rocks: 7.6 mi
- Powells Monument: 5.8 mi
- Cedar Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Little Knoll: 6.6 mi
- Johnson Point: 7.3 mi
- Bridger Point: 7.4 mi
- Last Reliable Spring: 2.0 mi
- Shower Spring: 3.4 mi
- Lowrey Spring: 6.3 mi
- Sevenmile Spring: 7.1 mi
- Second Crack Spring: 7.1 mi
- Big Water Park: 11.6 mi
- Vermillion Park: 13.7 mi
- Children's Park: 14.1 mi
- Elm Street Fitness Park: 14.2 mi
- John C Page Park: 14.6 mi
- Vermilion Cliffs: 8.6 mi
- Echo Cliffs: 9.5 mi
- The Dive: 13.7 mi
- Red Point: 15.3 mi
- The Rimrocks: 15.3 mi
- Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness: 5.7 mi
- Vermilion Cliffs National Monument: 7.3 mi
- Coyote Buttes South: 15.5 mi
- Coyote Buttes North: 16.7 mi
- The Cockscomb Wilderness Study Area: 18.8 mi
- Paria Beach: 8.1 mi
- Sandbar: 11.7 mi
- Lone Rock Beach: 11.9 mi
- Dick's Arch: 17.1 mi
- Buckskin Gulch Arch: 17.7 mi
- Wilson Ranch: 5.0 mi
- Lee's Ferry: 8.5 mi
- Echo Peaks Fall: 10.6 mi
- John Wesley Powell Museum: 14.5 mi
- Catstair Canyon Detroit Riprap: 19.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bush Head. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Knolls | SSW 203° | 2,090 m | 10.5 mi |
| The Big Knoll | SW 232° | 2,054 m | 9.2 mi |
| Powells Monument | SSE 156° | 2,042 m | 5.8 mi |
| Tselgiishil | SSE 163° | 2,028 m | 16.5 mi |
| Middle Knoll | WSW 240° | 2,018 m | 7.9 mi |
| White Mesa | SSE 157° | 1,993 m | 21.7 mi |
| Buckskin Mountain | W 280° | 1,966 m | 21.4 mi |
| Little Knoll | WSW 247° | 1,958 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:05 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:09 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:51 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:34 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 72 | 83 | 89 | 86 | 76 | 63 | 50 | 40 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lees Ferry, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 2288 — Bush Head, Coconino County, Arizona.
OpenStreetMap element node/359243688
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