Minnehaha Spring
Minnehaha Spring is a spring in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 1,597 m. Mount Union stands 2,427 m to the north, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Rush Spring, a spring 0.8 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Rush Spring: 0.8 mi
- Bull Run Spring: 1.4 mi
- Pay Dirt Spring: 1.6 mi
- Iron Spring: 2.0 mi
- Jakies Pass Spring: 2.3 mi
- Thompson Butte: 2.3 mi
- Castle Rock: 2.7 mi
- The Cements: 2.8 mi
- Porphry Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Wasson Peak: 3.2 mi
- Sayer Springs - Old Stage Coach stop.: 15.1 mi
- Granite Mountain Hotshot Memorial: 19.9 mi
- Eric Marsh: 21.4 mi
- Robert Cadwell: 21.4 mi
- Clayton Whitted: 21.4 mi
- Horsethief Basin Recreation Area: 7.0 mi
- Mount Union Family Picnic Ground: 15.9 mi
- Mount Union Recreational Area: 15.9 mi
- Black Canyon Heritage Park: 16.4 mi
- High Desert Park: 16.8 mi
- Bradshaw City: 2.7 mi
- Alexandra: 7.6 mi
- Cleator: 11.6 mi
- Tip Top: 12.8 mi
- Bumble Bee: 14.2 mi
- Spruce Mountain Lookout Family Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Groom Creek Schoolhouse Group Picnic Site: 19.8 mi
- Cottonwood Day Use Area: 20.4 mi
- Box Canyon of the Hassayampa River: 20.7 mi
- Lakeview Day Use Area: 21.9 mi
- Rock Shop: 17.2 mi
- That Seventies Store: 17.6 mi
- Yarnell Fire 19 Spot: 20.8 mi
- Fatality Site: 21.6 mi
- Pueblo La Plata Interpretive Site: 21.8 mi
- Highlands Center for Natural History: 23.4 mi
- Cultural Crossroads Learning Center: 24.1 mi
- Desert Caballeros Western Museum: 24.1 mi
- Museum of Indigenous People: 24.9 mi
- Sharlot Hall Museum: 25.0 mi
- Agua Fria National Monument: 19.3 mi
- Lake Pleasant Regional Park: 19.9 mi
- Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park: 21.5 mi
- New River Nature Reserve: 22.2 mi
- Jesus: 20.3 mi
- Cowboy on a Horse: 23.9 mi
- Welcome to Wickenburg: 24.1 mi
- Cowboy at Rest: 24.8 mi
- Sunset Point: 14.9 mi
- White Bluffs: 18.3 mi
- Sunset Point Rest Area: 15.2 mi
- Hassayampa Rest Area: 24.7 mi
- Wolf Creek Falls: 19.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Minnehaha Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Union | N 359° | 2,427 m | 15.9 mi |
| Mount Tritle | N 352° | 2,368 m | 16.2 mi |
| Moscow Peak | N 1° | 2,343 m | 15.0 mi |
| Towers Mountain | NNE 30° | 2,324 m | 3.9 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | N 350° | 2,291 m | 15.2 mi |
| Lane Mountain | ESE 116° | 2,195 m | 5.2 mi |
| Watson Peak | ESE 115° | 2,183 m | 5.1 mi |
| Wasson Peak | E 91° | 2,166 m | 3.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:34 | 18:09 | 18:42 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:08 | 19:45 |
| September equinox | 06:18 | 17:55 | 18:28 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:46 | 17:25 |
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 | 56 | 58 | 63 | 69 | 77 | 86 | 91 | 91 | 85 | 75 | 64 | 55 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Castle HOT Springs, 14 mi away.
- pointleaf manzanita1 obs
- velvet ash1 obs
- Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus1 obs
- Whipple Cholla1 obs
- Southwestern Ponderosa Pine1 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/2006091308
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