Boyce Thompson Picnic Area
Boyce Thompson Picnic Area is a picnic site in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 736 m. Mound Mountain stands 1,904 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Australian Pavilion, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Gila-Pinal Scenic Road runs past it.
What to expect
- Operated by
- boyce thompson arboretum
How to reach it
- On the Gila-Pinal Scenic Road
- 19.0 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
- 23.0 mi off the From the Desert to Tall Pines Scenic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Barrier-Free Lookout · 1 mi
- Weaver's Needle Lookout · 1 mi
- Observation Lookout · 1 mi
- Fish Creek Vista · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Magma Ridge: 0.3 mi
- Picketpost Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Roblas Butte: 5.3 mi
- Peachville Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Dromedary Peak: 5.8 mi
- Trough Spring: 4.1 mi
- Spencer Spring: 9.0 mi
- Pope Spring: 9.1 mi
- Kennedy Spring: 9.1 mi
- Upper Haunted Canyon Spring: 9.5 mi
- Superior Stadium: 2.5 mi
- Besich Park: 3.7 mi
- Black Spring: 8.4 mi
- Peralta Regional Park: 13.5 mi
- Superstition Mountain Monument: 16.8 mi
- Tropical Garden: 0.0 mi
- Demonstration Garden: 0.0 mi
- Hummingbird and Butterfly Garden: 0.0 mi
- Wallace Rose Garden: 0.0 mi
- Heritage Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- Queens Station: 3.6 mi
- Arnett Ranch: 3.9 mi
- Reymert Ruins: 4.5 mi
- Woodpecker Mine: 5.0 mi
- Bradley Lee Bartlett: 5.3 mi
- Apache Leap: 4.9 mi
- Kitty Pool: 5.1 mi
- The Funny Farm: 5.1 mi
- Little England Wall: 5.1 mi
- Atlantis South Side: 5.1 mi
- Australian Pavilion: 0.0 mi
- Drover's Wool Shed: 0.1 mi
- The Grotto: 0.1 mi
- Javelina Point: 0.2 mi
- Aboriginal Seep: 0.2 mi
- The Ring of Life: 0.1 mi
- Do You Hear What I Hear?: 0.1 mi
- Peaceful Little Ones: 0.2 mi
- Woman from the Fields: 0.2 mi
- S: 3.6 mi
- Pinal City: 1.1 mi
- Reymert: 4.5 mi
- Ray: 11.4 mi
- Cochran: 11.7 mi
- Bellevue: 13.0 mi
- Kellner Group Picnic Site: 19.4 mi
- Captain Pass: 22.4 mi
- Boulder Picnic: 23.2 mi
- Acacia Recreation Area: 23.8 mi
- Burnt Corral Picnic: 24.0 mi
- Dungeon Tour: 15.8 mi
- Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum: 18.0 mi
- Gila County Historical Museum: 22.8 mi
- Fish Beach: 23.4 mi
- Back Beach: 23.5 mi
- Massacre Falls: 20.2 mi
- Poston Butte Preserve: 21.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Boyce Thompson Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mound Mountain | N 5° | 1,904 m | 13.4 mi |
| White Mountain | N 354° | 1,844 m | 12.7 mi |
| Iron Mountain | N 357° | 1,838 m | 10.6 mi |
| Pinto Peak | N 10° | 1,800 m | 12.8 mi |
| Hutton Peak | ENE 71° | 1,704 m | 10.1 mi |
| Cimeron Mountain | N 351° | 1,690 m | 14.4 mi |
| Montana Mountain | N 2° | 1,685 m | 8.7 mi |
| Five Point Mountain | ENE 68° | 1,665 m | 11.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:29 | 18:04 | 18:37 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| September equinox | 06:14 | 17:50 | 18:23 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:44 | 17:22 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 56 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 85 | 88 | 87 | 83 | 74 | 62 | 53 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Superior, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/4186045496
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