Comments on: ‘A’ Mountain & Sun Devil Stadium

By: kaa

kaa — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:08 +0000

Keith T., you can see some of the freeway lizards about three miles east of this shot, if you follow the 202 (Red Mtn Freeway) to Dobson Road.

By: Danilo Bataglin (I'm from Brazil)

Danilo Bataglin (I'm from Brazil) — Fri, 12 May 2006 19:04:02 +0000

Eu acho tudo isso muito legal….
o que estÃ¡ na foto Ã© parecido com a letra A…
legal…
adeus!!!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:57:50 +0000

Check out the REAL A Mountain in Tucson, AZ. Univeristy of Arizona

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Doug Mark

Doug Mark — Sun, 15 May 2005 05:23:27 +0000

If you go North and a bit west along the northern shore of the lake/river - you’ll see a mismatch in the pictures lining up. It goes pretty east…not sure about west….check it out.

By: Keith T.

Keith T. — Sat, 14 May 2005 06:44:03 +0000

The triangle looks like maybe a former emergency airfield?
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&n=3734952.00004448&e=348679.999995577&datum=nad83&u=5

As for the “nice circular something” (you mean Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth , right?), I noticed that the Phoenix area does a lot of that sort of thing in the rockery and dirt next to its highway offramps and interchanges. I submitted a ton of links to those a while back, maybe they’ll appear here someday. Like Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth or Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I seem to remember one on one of those roads somewhere where the designs on the sides of the interchange look like lizards, but I can’t find it.

By: Scott Jones

Scott Jones — Fri, 13 May 2005 17:51:49 +0000

The dome is a welcome center for ASU.

You can also find the Bill Kajikawa practice field to the east of the stadium…notice the SUN DEVILS written in the end zone.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:32:55 +0000

Missoula, MT also has a big “M” on its near by mountain:

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: petekrug

petekrug — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:49:15 +0000

Wayne, C’mon now, that’s a ‘W’….for Wayne. How did you pull that off?

By: Richard Kaszeta

Richard Kaszeta — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:24:48 +0000

The weird triangle mentioned by the Govinator is an auxiliary landing strip that used to be used by Luke AFB. I’ve been out there, it’s literally nothing but three asphalt strips in a triangle.

See http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AZ/Airfields_AZ_Phoenix_NW.htm for more info. If you look around on Google Maps, some of the other Aux fields are around, too, like #3, Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth, which has been dveloped, with #2 being slightly NW of there.

By: Richard Kaszeta

Richard Kaszeta — Fri, 13 May 2005 14:48:26 +0000

Other interesting sites nearby:

1. To the southwest of the “A” is a diamond-shaped building. That’s Tempe’s city hall, and it’s actually an inverted pyramid.

2. South of there a few block (where the road, Mill Avenue, arcs to the east becoming Apache) is Grady Gammage Auditorium, a rather nice Frank Lloyd Wright designed building (which isn’t all that impressive from this viewpoint)

3. East of campus by an Arizona Public Service (APS) plant are three big water towers, which sport “ASU”, “Tempe” and “APS” logos on them.

4. SE a bit is a geodesic dome that used to be a bank (don’t know what it is now) that kind of shows up on the map (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.415732,-111.927445&spn=0.005418,0.007188&t=k&hl=en)