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Lamplight Community Garden

Lamplight Community Garden from directly overhead

Lamplight Community Garden is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 227 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Alderbrook Pocket Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 7.0 miles off. 40 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates30.41503, -97.69735

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Alderbrook Pocket Park: 0.0 mi
  • Walnut Creek Greenbelt: 0.6 mi
  • Gracywoods Park: 0.8 mi
  • Wells Creek Greenbelt: 1.0 mi
  • Scofield Farms Neighborhood Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Lotus: 5.3 mi
  • Thicket: 6.3 mi
  • Ocho: 8.0 mi
  • Two lion statues: 8.1 mi
  • Nessy: 8.1 mi
Gardens: 55
Nature reserves: 54
Museums: 41
  • Museum of Ice Cream: 1.9 mi
  • Museum of Illusions: 2.2 mi
  • Bohls House: 5.7 mi
  • Palm House Museum: 6.6 mi
  • Elisabet Ney Museum: 7.7 mi
Peaks: 40
Attractions: 17
  • Client Innovation Center: 1.4 mi
  • Abandoned zoo cage: 1.4 mi
  • Austin Table Tennis Association: 3.5 mi
  • Armor and Artillery Row: 8.0 mi
  • Lake Austin: 9.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Hidden Falls: 5.2 mi
  • Link Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Middle Bull Creek Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Lower Bull Creek Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Small Falls: 10.5 mi
Springs: 6
Picnic sites: 4
  • Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 6.0 mi
  • Covered Picnic Tables: 15.3 mi
  • Stone picnic table: 15.7 mi
  • The Learning Tree: 16.7 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • Fern Bluff: 7.7 mi
  • Bird Bluff: 11.7 mi
  • Seismic Wall: 13.3 mi
  • Comanche Bluff: 23.6 mi
Ghost towns: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lamplight Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shingle HillsWSW 251°433 m24.5 mi
NegroheadWNW 295°405 m23.5 mi
Bald MountainWNW 292°383 m24.3 mi
Travis PeakWNW 293°382 m21.4 mi
Round MountainNW 305°366 m20.2 mi
Big Bear HillNW 306°366 m21.1 mi
Chalk KnobWSW 244°364 m19.5 mi
Flint Rock HillWSW 250°360 m17.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3519:1119:43
June solstice06:3020:0120:37
September equinox07:2018:5719:29
December solstice07:2416:5917:35

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495360677481848478695850
Precip in2.62.03.02.34.14.42.82.33.44.62.82.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin Great Hills, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • tree privet412 obs
  • Texas Spiny Lizard270 obs
  • Ashe juniper265 obs
  • Heavenly bamboo225 obs
  • firewheel211 obs
  • Turk's cap204 obs
  • Green Anole203 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel194 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1212389628

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