Butterfly Garden
Butterfly Garden is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 178 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Wigwam, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 6.6 miles off. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 20.1 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 23.3 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wigwam: 0.0 mi
- Pollen Grain: 0.0 mi
- Arachnophilia: 0.3 mi
- Nessy: 0.5 mi
- Ocho: 0.8 mi
- Mueller Southwest Greenway: 0.1 mi
- Ella Wooten Park: 0.2 mi
- Roger Lavon Taylor Senior Plaza: 0.4 mi
- JJ Seabrook Greenbelt: 0.4 mi
- Willowbrook Reach: 0.4 mi
- Maud Anna Berry Smith Fuller: 0.7 mi
- Evergreen Cemetery: 0.8 mi
- Downs Field: 1.0 mi
- Site of Pecan Springs School: 1.1 mi
- Addcox House: 1.2 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.1 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 5.3 mi
- Monoculture: 0.0 mi
- Patterson Park Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- SFC Teaching Garden: 0.8 mi
- Este Garden: 1.0 mi
- Alamo Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- The Thinkery: 0.5 mi
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum: 1.5 mi
- Texas Memorial Museum: 1.7 mi
- Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports: 1.7 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 1.7 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 4.6 mi
- Mount Barker: 4.7 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 4.8 mi
- Mount Lucas: 4.9 mi
- Mount Larson: 5.5 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 1.9 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 2.3 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 3.2 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 3.3 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 3.8 mi
- Twin Falls: 7.1 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 7.1 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 7.2 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 7.4 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 7.4 mi
- New Sweden: 14.1 mi
- McDuff: 15.1 mi
- Palm Valley: 18.2 mi
- Goforth: 19.2 mi
- Lytton Springs: 20.4 mi
- Seiders Spring: 2.8 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 4.2 mi
- Eliza Spring: 4.3 mi
- Shady Spring: 7.5 mi
- Queen's Bath: 14.7 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.1 mi
- Seismic Wall: 6.5 mi
- Fern Bluff: 16.2 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 23.5 mi
- Stone picnic table: 7.1 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 7.8 mi
- The Learning Tree: 10.4 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 13.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Butterfly Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 272° | 433 m | 22.8 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 253° | 406 m | 23.2 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 270° | 364 m | 17.2 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 279° | 360 m | 16.4 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 245° | 353 m | 16.4 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 319° | 346 m | 23.3 mi |
| Hamilton Hill | NW 325° | 345 m | 23.6 mi |
| Jess Maynard Hill | NW 326° | 343 m | 22.0 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.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel783 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle705 obs
- Monarch585 obs
- Mallard459 obs
- Green Anole454 obs
- Texas Spiny Lizard451 obs
- Gulf Fritillary446 obs
- Muscovy Duck409 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/747150070
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- Austin · 3 mi
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