0.2 miles away
Mountain America Stadium
The Arizona State University football stadium in Tempe, opened in 1958 and named Sun Devil Stadium until 2023.
Tempe Butte
A volcanic butte on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, known locally as A Mountain for the 60-foot letter near its summit.
- Rank in Arizona
- #139of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 49.1 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
Tempe Butte is an andesite butte of volcanic origin in Tempe, Arizona, lying partly within the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. Its O'odham name is ʼOidbaḍ Doʼag; the City of Tempe also calls it Hayden Butte, and it is widely known locally as A Mountain, after the 60-foot gold-painted letter A near its top. Its highest point stands at 1,495 feet and its base at about 1,150 feet. The butte forms the backdrop to games played at Mountain America Stadium, historically Sun Devil Stadium.
Where it is
Tempe Butte is a natural landmark near Tempe, in Maricopa County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Tempe Butte, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Nearby attractions
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An artificial reservoir on the Salt River in Tempe, fed largely by Colorado River water through the Central Arizona Project.
0.4 miles away
Mullett Arena
A 5,000-seat arena at Arizona State University, temporary home of the NHL's Arizona Coyotes from 2022 to 2024.0.5 miles away
ASU Museum of Anthropology
Arizona State University's anthropology museum in Tempe, run by its School of Human Evolution and Social Change.0.5 miles away
ASU Robert S. Dietz Museum of Geology
Arizona State University's geology museum in Tempe, housing minerals, gems and fossils from Arizona and worldwide.
0.5 miles away
Old Main
Old Main, in Tempe, Arizona, is the original building of the school it belongs to, dating from the school's founding.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Tempe
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 49.1 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 32.4
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.4282, -111.9361
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12