Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary
Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 202 m. Blue Mound stands 264 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is University Gardens Texas Woman's University, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail runs past it. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Texas Woman's University
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- On the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Jim Carter Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
- Quakertown Park: 0.8 mi
- Sequoia Park: 0.9 mi
- Historical Denton Square: 1.0 mi
- Wolff’s Park: 1.1 mi
- November Devil: 1.0 mi
- Carrizo: 1.5 mi
- Shadow Garden: 1.5 mi
- Statue of Diego Velázquez: 1.5 mi
- In High Places: 1.6 mi
- Bill Crouch Garden: 1.2 mi
- Shiloh Field Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Ken Dickson Environmental Learning Area: 1.6 mi
- Buisness Leadership Building (BLB) Zen garden: 1.8 mi
- Prayer Garden: 13.8 mi
- Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection Museum: 0.1 mi
- Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum: 1.0 mi
- Bayless-Selby House Museum: 1.2 mi
- African American Museum: 1.2 mi
- Explorium: 3.0 mi
- Bald Knob: 4.8 mi
- Blue Mound: 5.0 mi
- Pilot Knob: 6.7 mi
- Long Point: 7.9 mi
- Crawford Hill: 8.1 mi
- North Texas State Fair and Rodeo: 0.6 mi
- Wildhorse Golf Club: 9.0 mi
- Space Shuttle VR: 18.8 mi
- Bubble Planet Experience: 18.9 mi
- Crayola Experience: 22.0 mi
- Thrive Nature Park: 15.9 mi
- Bob Jones Nature Center: 16.2 mi
- Arbor Hills Nature Preserve: 20.4 mi
- Russell Creek Preserve: 24.6 mi
- Little Elm Beach: 11.6 mi
- Post Oak Beach: 13.4 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
- The Corral: 24.1 mi
- Elizabethtown: 16.7 mi
- Camey Spur: 18.7 mi
- Shayhan Point: 8.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mound | SSW 213° | 264 m | 23.5 mi |
| Mount Olive | N 10° | 255 m | 16.8 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SW 217° | 253 m | 6.7 mi |
| Blue Mound | NW 306° | 244 m | 5.0 mi |
| Long Point | SW 217° | 234 m | 7.9 mi |
| Terrapin Hill | N 0° | 232 m | 22.1 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 212° | 231 m | 8.1 mi |
| Mount Donwell | S 187° | 218 m | 21.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:08 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:05 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:48 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 49 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 81 | 85 | 85 | 78 | 67 | 55 | 47 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 4.6 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Denton 2 SE, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel1,861 obs
- Northern Mockingbird891 obs
- Northern Cardinal829 obs
- Western Honey Bee806 obs
- Texas Spiny Lizard804 obs
- White-winged Dove638 obs
- Black Vulture633 obs
- European Starling577 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/1423639153
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