Rabbit Ears
Rabbit Ears rises to 2,440 m in New Mexico. Organ Needle stands 2,708 m to the south-southeast, 1.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Southern Comfort Wall, a cliff 0.6 miles away. El Camino Real passes 13 miles off. 148 named places lie within 25 miles, 39 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in New Mexico, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49066246, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,440 m
How to reach it
- 13.2 mi off the El Camino Real, National
148 named places within 25 miles
- Dripping Springs Natural Area: 2.4 mi
- Organ Town Square: 4.2 mi
- Bicentennial Grove: 5.0 mi
- Volunteer Park: 5.0 mi
- Missile Park: 5.9 mi
- The Needles: 1.0 mi
- Baylor Peak: 1.7 mi
- Organ Needle: 1.8 mi
- Minerva's Temple: 1.9 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 2.5 mi
- Topp Hut: 1.4 mi
- Rock House: 3.9 mi
- George Russell Beasley House Remains: 5.5 mi
- Cistern: 5.7 mi
- Issac House: 5.7 mi
- Space Murals Museum: 4.1 mi
- V-2 Display Annex: 5.9 mi
- White Sands Missile Range Museum: 5.9 mi
- New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum: 9.6 mi
- NMSU University Art Museum: 11.7 mi
- Nike Missile: 4.0 mi
- NMSU: 11.3 mi
- The Traders: 11.7 mi
- Class of 1931 Commemorative: 11.8 mi
- The Bent of Tau Beta Pi: 11.9 mi
- La Cueva: 2.5 mi
- Pat Garrett's Grave: 13.0 mi
- World's Largest Chili Pepper: 14.0 mi
- Sandia Gulch Begin: 17.4 mi
- Sandia Gulch End: 17.8 mi
- Middle Spring: 1.3 mi
- Mine House Spring: 1.5 mi
- Filmore Spring: 2.0 mi
- Dripping Springs: 3.2 mi
- Fort Selden Rest Area Northbound: 23.6 mi
- Fort Selden Rest Area Southbound: 23.8 mi
- Rest Area I-10 (West Bound): 25.0 mi
- Southern Comfort Wall: 0.6 mi
- The Tooth: 1.4 mi
- South Picnic Area: 21.8 mi
- North Picnic Area: 21.9 mi
- Fillmore waterfall: 2.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rabbit Ears. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organ Needle | SSE 150° | 2,708 m | 1.8 mi |
| Organ Peak | SSE 147° | 2,668 m | 3.2 mi |
| The Needles | SSE 162° | 2,565 m | 1.0 mi |
| Baldy Peak | SSE 162° | 2,564 m | 3.4 mi |
| Granite Peak | SE 127° | 2,554 m | 4.2 mi |
| San Andres Peak | N 7° | 2,459 m | 21.4 mi |
| Sugarloaf Peak | SE 128° | 2,443 m | 2.5 mi |
| Baylor Peak | N 1° | 2,337 m | 1.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:46 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:41 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:32 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:28 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 49 | 55 | 62 | 71 | 80 | 82 | 81 | 75 | 64 | 52 | 44 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — State Univ, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357578604
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