Ocho
Ocho is an artwork in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 187 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Jessie Andrews Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 7.3 miles off. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- metal
How to reach it
- 7.3 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 19.5 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 23.2 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Jessie Andrews Park: 0.0 mi
- Eva Carrillo de García Park: 0.3 mi
- Bartholomew District Park: 0.3 mi
- Paggi Square: 0.3 mi
- John Gaines Park: 0.4 mi
- Site of Pecan Springs School: 0.5 mi
- Annie Webb Blanton: 0.7 mi
- First Colored Baptist Church: 1.4 mi
- Bethany Cemetery: 1.4 mi
- Evergreen Cemetery: 1.4 mi
- Nessy: 0.6 mi
- Arachnophilia: 0.7 mi
- Pollen Grain: 0.8 mi
- Wigwam: 0.8 mi
- You are my butter half mural: 1.9 mi
- Patterson Park Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 0.8 mi
- Monoculture: 0.8 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- SFC Teaching Garden: 1.6 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.6 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 4.4 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
- The Thinkery: 0.5 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 1.9 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 1.9 mi
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum: 2.2 mi
- Texas Memorial Museum: 2.3 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 4.9 mi
- Mount Barker: 4.9 mi
- Mount Lucas: 5.1 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 5.1 mi
- Mount Larson: 5.8 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 2.7 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 3.1 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 4.0 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 4.0 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 4.1 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 7.1 mi
- Hidden Falls: 7.3 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 7.3 mi
- Link Falls: 7.5 mi
- Twin Falls: 7.8 mi
- New Sweden: 13.3 mi
- McDuff: 14.8 mi
- Palm Valley: 17.5 mi
- Goforth: 20.0 mi
- Lytton Springs: 20.9 mi
- Seiders Spring: 3.1 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 4.9 mi
- Eliza Spring: 5.0 mi
- Shady Spring: 6.8 mi
- Queen's Bath: 14.5 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.7 mi
- Seismic Wall: 7.3 mi
- Fern Bluff: 15.6 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 24.3 mi
- Stone picnic table: 7.8 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 8.6 mi
- The Learning Tree: 11.2 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ocho. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 270° | 433 m | 23.3 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 252° | 406 m | 23.8 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 268° | 364 m | 17.7 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 277° | 360 m | 16.8 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 244° | 353 m | 17.2 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 317° | 346 m | 23.2 mi |
| Hamilton Hill | NW 324° | 345 m | 23.4 mi |
| Jess Maynard Hill | NW 324° | 343 m | 21.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:35 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 86 | 87 | 81 | 72 | 61 | 54 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin-camp Mabry, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/8146533881
Day trips start here
- Austin · 4 mi
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