Lower Bear Picnic Area
Lower Bear Picnic Area is a picnic site in Arizona, at a recorded elevation of 861 m. Mount Lemmon stands 2,794 m to the north, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Rancho Fundoshi Spring, a spring 0.3 miles away. Sky Island Scenic Byway passes 3.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 861 m
How to reach it
- 3.1 mi off the Sky Island Scenic Byway, National
- 21.8 mi off the Patagonia-Sonoita Scenic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Babad Do'ag Viewpoint · 5 mi
- Thimble Mountain Vista · 5 mi
- Seven Cateracts Vista · 5 mi
- Molino Canyon Vista · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rancho Fundoshi Spring: 0.3 mi
- Rock Ledge Spring: 0.9 mi
- Barrel Spring: 1.1 mi
- Gibbon Springs: 1.5 mi
- Red Warrior Spring: 2.4 mi
- Sneed Parcel: 0.5 mi
- Serguson Donation: 0.5 mi
- Bear Creek Ranch: 1.2 mi
- Tucson Audubon Society: 2.3 mi
- Mountain Cove Estates: 2.9 mi
- Saddleback: 0.9 mi
- Thimble Peak: 2.2 mi
- Mount Miguel: 2.5 mi
- Mercer: 3.0 mi
- Whaleback: 3.1 mi
- Wes Miller Park: 1.3 mi
- McDonald District Park: 2.2 mi
- Vista del Rio Park: 4.0 mi
- Roy P Drachman - Agua Caliente Regional Park: 4.4 mi
- Castle Rock Park: 4.4 mi
- Foutain of Youth: 5.2 mi
- McT-Rex: 5.4 mi
- Moments To Remember: 7.0 mi
- Organ Pipe Cactus: 7.8 mi
- G’s Horn: 7.8 mi
- Memorial Garden: 7.5 mi
- Horticultural Therapy Beds: 7.8 mi
- Native American Crops: 7.8 mi
- Xeriscape Garden: 7.8 mi
- Word Garden: 7.8 mi
- The Window: 5.6 mi
- Tall Wall: 7.7 mi
- Incinerated Ridge: 7.7 mi
- Sig Boysen Home Composting Site: 7.8 mi
- Water Harvesting Feature: 7.8 mi
- Tucson Desert Art Museum: 5.0 mi
- Degrazia Gallery in the Sun: 5.5 mi
- The Mini Time Machine Museum: 6.6 mi
- H. H. Franklin Auto Museum: 9.3 mi
- Ignite Sign Art Museum: 10.6 mi
- Airmen Memorial Bridge: 5.6 mi
- Old Fort Lowell Hospital: 5.7 mi
- Valley of the Moon: 8.4 mi
- U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial: 10.6 mi
- Dr. Thomas Mixner Memorial: 10.6 mi
- Overlook Picnic Area: 0.9 mi
- Cactus Picnic Area: 1.1 mi
- Marshall Gulch Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
- Sykes Knob Picnic Area: 8.7 mi
- Loma Linda Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Seven Falls: 1.9 mi
- Seven Catarcts: 5.5 mi
- Walter's Cascade: 9.0 mi
- Tanque Verde Falls: 9.2 mi
- Ernie's Falls: 10.0 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 4.5 mi
- Mr Meanor Wall: 4.5 mi
- Alcatraz: 4.5 mi
- Sun Spot: 6.6 mi
- Honey Bee Canyon: 13.7 mi
- American Flag: 19.0 mi
- Redington: 19.5 mi
- Cascabel: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.4 miles of Lower Bear Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lemmon | N 3° | 2,794 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Bigelow | NE 34° | 2,606.6 m | 8.6 mi |
| Kellogg Mountain | NE 36° | 2,561.41 m | 8.7 mi |
| Marshall Peak | NNE 13° | 2,530 m | 7.9 mi |
| Spencer Peak | NNE 23° | 2,493 m | 8.1 mi |
| Leopold Point | NE 41° | 2,460 m | 8.9 mi |
| Helens Dome | ESE 116° | 2,430 m | 15.4 mi |
| Syke Knob | NNE 19° | 2,426 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:28 | 18:03 | 18:35 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 18:58 | 19:34 |
| September equinox | 06:12 | 17:49 | 18:21 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:46 | 17:23 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 42 | 46 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 67 | 58 | 50 | 41 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Lemmon Willow Canyon, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/359276849
Day trips start here
- Tucson · 10 mi
- Saguaro National Park · 18 mi
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