Wedding Cake Butte
Wedding Cake Butte rises to 1,483 m in New Mexico. Lone Butte stands 2,037 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Steamboat Butte, a peak 0.5 miles away. Santa Fe Trail passes 20 miles off. 42 named places lie within 25 miles, 35 of them named summits.
The story
mountain in New Mexico, United States of America
Wikidata Q49087960, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1483 m
How to reach it
- 19.6 mi off the Santa Fe Trail, National
- 124.2 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
42 named places within 25 miles
- Steamboat Butte: 0.5 mi
- Black Mesa: 3.8 mi
- Potter Rincon: 4.8 mi
- Big Canyon Mesa: 6.2 mi
- Middle Mesa: 7.6 mi
- Black Mesa: 11.4 mi
- Santa Fe Trail Cimarron Route: 20.7 mi
- Site of Old Fort Nichols: 21.4 mi
- Black Mesa Nature Preserve: 13.1 mi
- Kenton Museum: 13.9 mi
- Petrified Log Exhibit: 19.5 mi
- Black Bluff: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wedding Cake Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Butte | WNW 296° | 2,037 m | 23.9 mi |
| Seven L Buttes | WNW 298° | 1,996 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mesa de Maya | WNW 298° | 1,996 m | 19.0 mi |
| Fallas Mesa | NW 313° | 1,913 m | 22.3 mi |
| Jesus Mesa | WNW 292° | 1,882 m | 18.2 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | W 280° | 1,875 m | 22.9 mi |
| Dalerose Mesa | NW 311° | 1,862 m | 18.6 mi |
| Cobert Mesa | W 277° | 1,837 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:38 | 20:16 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:00 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 45 | 52 | 62 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — KIM 10sse, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357581762
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