Riley Saddle
Riley Saddle is a mountain saddle in Santa Cruz County, Arizona and has an elevation of 7,936 feet. Riley Saddle is situated nearby to the hamlet Madera Canyon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Wrightson and Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory.
Mount Wrightson
Peak
Photo: Wars, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Wrightson is a 9,456-foot peak in the Santa Rita Mountains within the Coronado National Forest, in southern Arizona, United States. It was renamed from its original O'odham name: Ce:wi Duag for William Wrightson, a miner and entrepreneur in the region killed by Apaches in the 1865 Battle of Fort Buchanan.
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
Observatory
Photo: Wars, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mount Hopkins
Peak
Photo: Wars, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Hopkins is a 8,553-foot peak of the Santa Rita Mountains range, in Santa Cruz County, southern Arizona. The peak was named after Gilbert Hopkins, who was killed nearby during the Battle of Fort Buchanan in 1865.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Madera Canyon.
Madera Canyon
Hamlet
Madera Canyon is a formerly populated place situated in the Santa Rita Mountains of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 4,911 feet above sea level.
Riley Saddle
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 7,936 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Santa Cruz County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
31.68732° or 31° 41′ 14″ northLongitude
-110.84634° or 110° 50′ 47″ westElevation
7,936 feet (2,419 metres)Open location code
853FM5P3+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 443838216OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddleGeoNames ID
5311317
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