Echo Amphitheater Picnic Site
Echo Amphitheater Picnic Site is a picnic site in New Mexico, at a modelled elevation of 2,025 m. Polvadera Peak stands 3,419 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Echo Amphitheater, a attraction 0.2 miles away. Jemez Mountain Trail passes 29 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- United States Forest Service
How to reach it
- 29.2 mi off the Jemez Mountain Trail, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mesa Montosa: 2.9 mi
- Kitchen Mesa: 3.8 mi
- Mesa Juan Domingo: 5.4 mi
- Mesa del Yeso: 6.7 mi
- Mesa Prieta: 8.0 mi
- Ojitos de los Gatos: 5.7 mi
- Harris Bear Spring: 11.9 mi
- Elk Spring: 12.0 mi
- Rock Spring: 12.1 mi
- Rancherilla Spring: 12.2 mi
- Echo Amphitheater: 0.2 mi
- Chimney Rock: 2.7 mi
- Ghost Ranch: 3.5 mi
- Canjilon Mountain Lookout Cabin Historic Site: 9.7 mi
- Abiquiu Dam Visitor Center: 9.9 mi
- Dominguez-Velez de Escalente Trail Historical Marker: 15.6 mi
- Senator Matias L. Chacon Recreational Park: 18.7 mi
- El Rito Historical Marker: 18.7 mi
- El Vado Lake State Park: 20.5 mi
- Heron Lake State Park: 23.5 mi
- Time Capsule: 9.9 mi
- Tsi-p'in-owinge' Pueblo Ruins: 14.0 mi
- Abiquiu Historical Marker: 15.5 mi
- Old Spanish Trail Historical Marker: 15.6 mi
- Poshuoinge: 17.3 mi
- Rincon Colorado: 13.2 mi
- Cerro Valdez: 18.8 mi
- Red Rock Cliff: 22.4 mi
- La Cuchilla de la Monjonera: 23.8 mi
- Gates of Hell: 24.4 mi
- Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology: 3.5 mi
- Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology: 3.5 mi
- Georgia O'keefe museum and home: 15.6 mi
- Pink Flamingo: 15.4 mi
- Mars Polar Lander: 18.8 mi
- El Vado Lake State Park: 21.8 mi
- Heron Lake State Park: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.6 miles of Echo Amphitheater Picnic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polvadera Peak | SSE 162° | 3,419 m | 21.8 mi |
| Canjilon Mountain | NNE 34° | 3,326 m | 17.4 mi |
| Cerro Saragate | NNE 26° | 3,230 m | 21.6 mi |
| Cerro Pavo | S 183° | 3,144 m | 22.3 mi |
| Red Hill | NNE 30° | 3,097 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mogote Peak | NE 52° | 3,048 m | 15.1 mi |
| La Mesa del Pedregosa | S 174° | 3,039 m | 22.6 mi |
| Cerro Pedernal | S 175° | 3,003 m | 13.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:50 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:15 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 34 | 42 | 49 | 58 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 41 | 31 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Abiquiu DAM, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/10605530500
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