The Praying Monk
The Praying Monk rises to 620 m in Arizona. East End stands 1,240 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Echo Canyon Recreation Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 25 miles off.
The story
mountain in Arizona, United States of America
Wikidata Q49082864, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 620 m
How to reach it
- 25.2 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Camelback Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Mummy Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Dixie Peak: 2.7 mi
- Piestewa Peak: 3.5 mi
- Phoenix Mountains: 3.6 mi
- Barry Goldwater Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Crucifix: 1.1 mi
- Blue Star Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Tree of Life: 4.0 mi
- Perl Charles Memoral Trail: 4.5 mi
- West Lawn: 1.4 mi
- East Lawn: 1.5 mi
- Jokake Grounds: 1.5 mi
- Kachina Park: 1.7 mi
- G.R. Herberger Park: 2.1 mi
- Phoenix Bat Cave: 1.9 mi
- Lovely Bride: 3.1 mi
- Visitors Center: 4.3 mi
- Majestic Mariposas: 4.3 mi
- Akimel O'Odham Kitchen: 4.5 mi
- One-Eyed Jack: 2.9 mi
- The Big Derailment: 3.0 mi
- Jack Knife: 3.0 mi
- Industrial Pipe Wave: 3.1 mi
- Saint John Via Vianney: 3.2 mi
- Xeriscape Demonstration Garden: 3.6 mi
- Boulder Garden: 4.2 mi
- Desert Botanical Garden Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Sonoran Desert Garden: 4.2 mi
- Shade Garden: 4.2 mi
- Shemer Art Center: 1.0 mi
- Scottsdale Railroad Museum: 3.0 mi
- Model Railroad Building: 3.0 mi
- Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West: 3.0 mi
- Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: 3.3 mi
- Elliot Ramada: 4.0 mi
- Yavapai Area 10: 7.0 mi
- Quechan Area 7: 7.1 mi
- Havasupi Area 8: 7.1 mi
- Pima Area 4: 7.1 mi
- Echo Canyon Recreation Area: 0.2 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Lookout Mountain Preserve: 8.5 mi
- Rio Salado Audubon Center: 9.1 mi
- Reach 11 Recreation Area: 9.5 mi
- Chinese Wall: 13.1 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 14.6 mi
- Morrells Wall: 15.0 mi
- Sven Slab: 15.6 mi
- Coon Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Mountain Spring: 13.6 mi
- Grapevine Spring: 22.4 mi
- Jims Spring: 23.3 mi
- Apache Spring: 23.7 mi
- Agua Chiquita Spring: 24.3 mi
- Illinois: 14.6 mi
- Marinette: 18.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.7 miles of The Praying Monk. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| East End | NE 41° | 1,240 m | 14.7 mi |
| McDowell Peak | NE 42° | 1,230 m | 13.0 mi |
| Thompson Peak | NE 46° | 1,214 m | 12.5 mi |
| Tom's Thumb | NE 39° | 1,196 m | 14.4 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | NE 41° | 1,192 m | 12.8 mi |
| Troon Mountain | NNE 29° | 1,060 m | 15.4 mi |
| Sunrise Peak | ENE 60° | 935 m | 12.5 mi |
| Cone Mountain | NNE 21° | 932 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 18:07 | 18:40 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:05 | 19:42 |
| September equinox | 06:17 | 17:53 | 18:26 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:46 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 57 | 60 | 66 | 73 | 82 | 91 | 96 | 94 | 89 | 77 | 65 | 56 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Phoenix AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 12366 — The Praying Monk, Maricopa County, Arizona.
OpenStreetMap element node/359252471
Day trips start here
- Scottsdale · 2 mi
- Phoenix · 6 mi
- Greater Phoenix · 8 mi
- Tempe · 8 mi
- Guadalupe · 10 mi
- Mesa · 11 mi
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