Granite Mountain
Granite Mountain rises to 2,208 m in New Mexico. South Baldy stands 3,279 m to the south, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Official Scenic Historic Marker, a historic site 2.0 miles away. Quebradas Back Country Byway passes 18 miles off. 153 named places lie within 25 miles, 60 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in New Mexico, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49032781, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,208 m
How to reach it
- 18.5 mi off the Quebradas Back Country Byway
- 17.7 mi off the El Camino Real, National
- 19.3 mi off the Socorro Historical District Scenic Byway
153 named places within 25 miles
- Baxter Peak: 3.4 mi
- North Peak: 3.9 mi
- Tip Top Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Magdalena Peak: 4.3 mi
- Silver Hill: 4.9 mi
- Hell Canyon Spring: 3.7 mi
- Garcia Canyon Spring: 6.9 mi
- Upper Garcia Canyon Spring: 7.0 mi
- Strozzi su Spring: 7.1 mi
- Shakespeare Spring: 8.1 mi
- Bell: 17.4 mi
- EMRTC Rattlesnake: 18.0 mi
- Passage of the Earth and the Sky: 18.6 mi
- "The Past", "The Present", and "The Future": 18.7 mi
- The Desert Maiden: 18.7 mi
- Official Scenic Historic Marker: 2.0 mi
- Magdalena Fault Historical Marker: 9.0 mi
- Billing Smelter Historic Site: 18.2 mi
- Alice Kase Memorial Bench: 18.4 mi
- Linda Weiss Memorial: 18.7 mi
- Hilton House: 2.1 mi
- Charles Ilfield Company Warehouse: 2.5 mi
- Dobson House Historic Site: 2.6 mi
- Old Jail House: 2.6 mi
- Clemens Ranch House Historic Site: 4.5 mi
- Langmuir Research Site: 14.5 mi
- NMT Alumni Hill Park: 18.7 mi
- Sedillo Park: 19.2 mi
- West Place Park: 19.3 mi
- School of Mines Heritage Park: 19.5 mi
- Box Car Museum: 2.4 mi
- New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum: 18.8 mi
- Hammel Museum: 19.7 mi
- López Rose Garden: 18.7 mi
- Dowdle Family Memorial Garden: 18.7 mi
- Brown Hall Rose Garden: 18.9 mi
- Hells Mesa: 11.5 mi
- Mesa Cencerro: 12.6 mi
- Riley: 16.1 mi
- Sandbar Riverine Park: 20.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Granite Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Baldy | S 171° | 3,279 m | 11.0 mi |
| Timber Peak | SSE 164° | 3,181 m | 12.1 mi |
| Mount Withington | SW 220° | 3,077 m | 24.0 mi |
| North Baldy | SSE 162° | 3,003 m | 7.1 mi |
| A-L Peak | SW 221° | 2,940 m | 21.5 mi |
| Ladrón Peak | NNE 21° | 2,780 m | 21.2 mi |
| Tip Top Mountain | SSE 156° | 2,773 m | 3.9 mi |
| Buck Peak | SSE 156° | 2,764 m | 12.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:48 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:58 | 19:47 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 16:25 | 17:04 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 44 | 51 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Socorro, 20 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 906687 — Granite Mountain, Socorro County, New Mexico.
OpenStreetMap element node/357594589
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