Butterfly Trail
Butterfly Trail is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 156 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Zilker Botanical Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 2.4 miles off. 43 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Step-free access
- No
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 24.4 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 26.2 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 21 mi
- Sinkholes · 30 mi
- Wetland Wonders · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Esperanza School Building: 0.1 mi
- Swedish Log Cabin: 0.1 mi
- Swedes of Texas: 0.1 mi
- Ashford McGill House (Zilker Park Refectory): 0.2 mi
- Clay Pit Bucket Tower: 0.3 mi
- Zilker Park: 0.4 mi
- Veterans Park: 0.4 mi
- Eilers Neighborhood Park: 0.4 mi
- Volma Overton Sr. Beach at Town Lake Metro Park: 0.4 mi
- Barton Springs Park: 0.5 mi
- Abundance: 0.5 mi
- Embrace Bewilderment: 0.9 mi
- ATX: 1.1 mi
- Open Room Austin: 1.2 mi
- Cloud Pavilion: 1.2 mi
- Shudde Fath Tract: 2.7 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Uplands: 3.3 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 3.4 mi
- Carrington's Prairie: 3.8 mi
- Zilker Botanical Garden: 0.1 mi
- Herbal Garden: 0.1 mi
- Hartman Prehistoric Garden: 0.1 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- Oriental Garden: 0.1 mi
- Mount Larson: 3.0 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 3.5 mi
- Mount Barker: 3.8 mi
- Flintridge Hill: 4.1 mi
- Mount Lucas: 4.1 mi
- Austin Nature & Science Center: 0.2 mi
- Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum;Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum: 0.6 mi
- Charles Moore House: 1.1 mi
- TexPop ATX: 1.4 mi
- Austin Public Library - Austin History Center: 1.6 mi
- Rock Wall At Zilker: 0.3 mi
- Barton Springs Pool: 0.5 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 1.8 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 1.8 mi
- Lake Austin: 2.2 mi
- Twin Falls: 2.8 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 3.1 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 3.5 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 6.4 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 6.6 mi
- Eliza Spring: 0.4 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 0.4 mi
- Seiders Spring: 2.9 mi
- Shady Spring: 10.1 mi
- Queen's Bath: 14.1 mi
- Goforth: 17.2 mi
- New Sweden: 18.2 mi
- McDuff: 18.8 mi
- Lytton Springs: 20.7 mi
- Palm Valley: 20.9 mi
- Seismic Wall: 2.4 mi
- Bird Bluff: 4.8 mi
- Fern Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 19.4 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 4.3 mi
- The Learning Tree: 6.2 mi
- Stone picnic table: 6.5 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Butterfly Trail. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 277° | 433 m | 18.8 mi |
| Gainor Mountain | WSW 252° | 429 m | 23.0 mi |
| Peach Mountain | WSW 246° | 429 m | 24.8 mi |
| Lone Woman Mountain | SW 236° | 423 m | 24.0 mi |
| Lone Man Mountain | SW 235° | 416 m | 23.1 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 253° | 406 m | 18.8 mi |
| Travis Peak | NW 320° | 382 m | 23.8 mi |
| Round Mountain | NNW 331° | 366 m | 24.7 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: 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.
- Great-tailed Grackle1,088 obs
- Texas Spiny Lizard1,027 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel889 obs
- Turk's cap784 obs
- Green Anole778 obs
- Pond Slider714 obs
- Heavenly bamboo655 obs
- Egyptian Goose583 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 node/3194230016
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- Austin · 2 mi
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