Comanche Point
Comanche Point rises to 2,003 m in Arizona. Tritle Peak stands 2,505 m to the northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Palisades of the Desert, a cliff 1.1 miles away. Kaibab Plateau-North Rim Parkway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Comanche Point is a 7,073-foot-elevation (2,156-meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, US. Part of the Palisades of the Desert, Comanche Point is the high point on the canyon's less-visited East Rim, and is four miles north-northeast of Desert View Point, its nearest higher neighbor. Topographic relief is significant as it towers 4,400 feet (1,300 meters) above the Colorado River in 1.5 mile. Comanche Point was named in 1900 by George Wharton James for the Comanche, a Native-American nation from the Great Plains, in keeping with a practice of naming the points on the canyon's South Rim for Native American nations. This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Comanche Point is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone. On September 27, 1994, the tabloid Weekly World News ran an outlandish cover story that wreckage of a 4000-year-old UFO had been found in limestone rubble near the base of Comanche Point.
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Wikidata Q104698600, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2003 m
How to reach it
- 15.7 mi off the Kaibab Plateau-North Rim Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Coconino Overlook · 16 mi
- Bison Watching Spot · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Palisades of the Desert: 1.1 mi
- Palisades of the Desert: 1.7 mi
- Ochoa Point: 3.3 mi
- Desert View Point: 3.5 mi
- Basalt Cliffs: 4.1 mi
- Espejo Butte: 1.8 mi
- Cardenas Butte: 3.2 mi
- Lava Butte: 3.2 mi
- Cedar Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Gold Hill: 3.7 mi
- Blue Spring: 6.4 mi
- Cliff Spring: 8.6 mi
- Hance Creek Spring: 10.1 mi
- Miners Spring: 10.8 mi
- Roaring Springs: 14.6 mi
- Angels Window: 8.2 mi
- Hartman Natural Bridge: 9.6 mi
- Roosevelt Trailhead: 12.0 mi
- Natural Arch: 13.3 mi
- Duck on a rock: 15.5 mi
- désert point: 4.0 mi
- Walhalla Glades: 8.1 mi
- Masonic Grand Canyon Degree Memorial: 19.4 mi
- Willows Camp: 20.7 mi
- Hermit’s Rest: 22.8 mi
- Little Colorado River Navajo Tribal Park: 12.4 mi
- Cottonwood Campground: 14.2 mi
- Grand Canyon Navajo Tribal Park: 15.6 mi
- Bright Angel Campground: 16.3 mi
- Havasupai Gardens Campground: 18.2 mi
- Tusayan Museum: 6.5 mi
- Yavapai Geology Museum: 17.6 mi
- Kolb Studio Museum: 19.0 mi
- Big E Steakhouse & Saloon: 19.8 mi
- Cheyava Falls: 10.2 mi
- Ribbon Falls: 14.8 mi
- Upper Ribbon Falls: 15.2 mi
- Upper Upper Ribbon Falls: 16.2 mi
- Native market: 12.3 mi
- Native Market: 13.6 mi
- Little Colorado Native Market: 18.0 mi
- Boat Beach: 16.0 mi
- Pipe Creek Beach: 17.1 mi
- Havasupai Gardens Day Use Area: 18.1 mi
- Rowe Well Picnic Area: 21.1 mi
- Manzanita Rest Area: 14.2 mi
- Saddle Mountain Wilderness: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.6 miles of Comanche Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tritle Peak | NW 319° | 2,505 m | 12.1 mi |
| Siegfried Pyre | NW 321° | 2,414 m | 9.2 mi |
| Wotans Throne | W 276° | 2,360 m | 8.7 mi |
| Alsap Butte | NW 323° | 2,281 m | 13.6 mi |
| Desert View Point | SSW 198° | 2,279 m | 3.7 mi |
| Brahma Temple | WNW 281° | 2,275 m | 13.3 mi |
| Deva Temple | WNW 288° | 2,224 m | 13.4 mi |
| Papago Point | SW 223° | 2,220 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 18:05 | 18:39 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:10 | 19:48 |
| September equinox | 06:16 | 17:52 | 18:26 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:37 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 34 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 67 | 72 | 69 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grand Canyon E Entrance, 4 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Grand Canyon National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jan and Feb; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359244504
Day trips start here
- Grand Canyon · 19 mi
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