Gear Grove
Gear Grove is an artwork in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 156 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Swedish Consulate and Swante Palm Library, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 4.0 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Bike rack sculpture made of stainless steel and recycled bike gears
What the record says
- Built
- 2013
- Material
- stainless_steel
How to reach it
- 4.0 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 22.6 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 24.6 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Swedish Consulate and Swante Palm Library: 0.0 mi
- M. M. Long's Livery Stable & Opera House: 0.0 mi
- Millett Opera House: 0.1 mi
- First Capitol in Austin: 0.1 mi
- Openheimer-Montgomery Building: 0.1 mi
- Pat Crow Memorial Plaza: 0.1 mi
- The Old Bakery Bicentennial Square: 0.1 mi
- Wooldridge Square Park: 0.2 mi
- Republic Square: 0.4 mi
- Brush Square: 0.4 mi
- Black Austin Matters: 0.1 mi
- Homeless Jesus: 0.1 mi
- Lead to Live: 0.3 mi
- The Sisterhood of Two Hearts: 0.3 mi
- Dale Shine: 0.3 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.3 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 3.4 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Shudde Fath Tract: 4.2 mi
- Lady Bird Johnson Texas Capitol Flower Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Luci and Ian's Family Hill Country Garden: 0.4 mi
- Congress Avenue Rain Garden: 0.6 mi
- Brazos Bluff: 0.7 mi
- Explorers Garden: 0.7 mi
- The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center on Congress Avenue;The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center: 0.1 mi
- Capitol Complex Visitor Center: 0.2 mi
- Austin Public Library - Austin History Center: 0.2 mi
- Mexic-Arte Museum: 0.3 mi
- Museum of the Weird: 0.3 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 3.9 mi
- Mount Larson: 4.1 mi
- Mount Barker: 4.2 mi
- Mount Lucas: 4.5 mi
- Flintridge Hill: 5.8 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 0.6 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 0.8 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 0.8 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 0.8 mi
- Rock Wall At Zilker: 1.6 mi
- Twin Falls: 4.5 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 4.9 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 5.4 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 5.8 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 6.0 mi
- Eliza Spring: 1.7 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 1.9 mi
- Seiders Spring: 2.4 mi
- Shady Spring: 9.3 mi
- Queen's Bath: 14.7 mi
- New Sweden: 16.6 mi
- McDuff: 17.0 mi
- Goforth: 17.5 mi
- Lytton Springs: 19.9 mi
- Palm Valley: 20.2 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.2 mi
- Seismic Wall: 3.9 mi
- Fern Bluff: 17.4 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 20.9 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 5.3 mi
- Stone picnic table: 5.9 mi
- The Learning Tree: 7.8 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Gear Grove. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 276° | 433 m | 20.7 mi |
| Gainor Mountain | WSW 254° | 429 m | 24.8 mi |
| Lone Man Mountain | WSW 237° | 416 m | 24.6 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 254° | 406 m | 20.6 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 276° | 364 m | 15.0 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WNW 286° | 360 m | 14.5 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 246° | 353 m | 13.9 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 325° | 346 m | 23.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:31 | 20:01 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 68 | 59 | 51 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin 6S, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/9653213332
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- Austin · 0 mi
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