Mount Phillips
Mount Phillips rises to 3,553 m in New Mexico. Wheeler Peak stands 4,011 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Bunkhouse Bare Point, a peak 0.3 miles away. Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway passes 6.3 miles off.
The story
Mount Phillips, is a mountain located in Colfax County, New Mexico about 11 miles (18 km) south of Baldy Mountain in the Cimarron Range, a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Formerly called Clear Creek Mountain, it was renamed in 1960 in honor of the then living Waite Phillips, who donated the area to Scouting America as part of the Philmont Scout Ranch.
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Wikidata Q6922736, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3553 m
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway
- 11.3 mi off the Santa Fe Trail, National
- 25.9 mi off the High Road to Taos
Overlooks nearby
- Base Camp View · 11 mi
- Base Camp View · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bunkhouse Bare Point: 0.3 mi
- Comanche Peak: 0.9 mi
- Tolby Peak: 1.2 mi
- Big Red: 1.8 mi
- Garcia Peak: 2.6 mi
- Cimarron Canyon State Park: 4.2 mi
- Gravel Pit Lakes: 5.0 mi
- Cimarron Canyon Wildlife Area: 5.3 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Enchanted Eagle Park: 7.9 mi
- Palisades Sill: 4.2 mi
- Cimarron Canyon State Park: 5.6 mi
- Cimarron Canyon Historical Marker: 6.0 mi
- Old Cartwright Mill Site: 7.1 mi
- D A V Vietnam Veterans National Memorial Historical Marker: 7.9 mi
- Homebound Ampitheater: 11.0 mi
- Covered Wagon: 11.8 mi
- Welcome Wagon: 11.8 mi
- T-Rex Track: 13.2 mi
- Cimarron Santa Fe National Historic Trail Interpretive Plaza: 13.7 mi
- Eagle Nest Visitor Center & Gateway Museum: 7.6 mi
- Villa Philmonte: 11.7 mi
- Old Aztec Mill Museum: 13.3 mi
- Kit Carson Museum: 14.9 mi
- Little Red School House: 20.6 mi
- Eagle: 7.9 mi
- The Wonders of Discovery: 11.5 mi
- Tipi: 13.4 mi
- Native Art: 23.4 mi
- Padre Antonio Jose Martinez: 23.6 mi
- Cimarron Canyon State Park: 4.2 mi
- Eagle Nest Wildlife Management Area: 5.6 mi
- Eagle Nest Lake State Park: 6.2 mi
- Crooked Creek Spring: 3.7 mi
- Apache Spring: 10.4 mi
- Palisades Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
- La Vinateria: 22.2 mi
- Palisades: 4.2 mi
- Betty's Bra: 7.6 mi
- Salto Del Agua Waterfall: 21.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Mount Phillips. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler Peak | WNW 291° | 4,011 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Walter | WNW 292° | 3,996 m | 15.3 mi |
| Old Mike Peak | WNW 289° | 3,989 m | 14.5 mi |
| Simpson Peak | WNW 289° | 3,953 m | 15.0 mi |
| Red Dome | WNW 291° | 3,868 m | 13.7 mi |
| Lew Wallace Peak | WNW 286° | 3,779 m | 13.7 mi |
| Baldy Mountain | NNW 344° | 3,765 m | 11.0 mi |
| Taos Cone | WNW 295° | 3,729 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:39 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:09 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 26 | 34 | 40 | 49 | 57 | 62 | 60 | 54 | 43 | 32 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Eagle Nest, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 928903 — Mount Phillips, Colfax County, New Mexico.
OpenStreetMap element node/357611067
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