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Memorial Garden

Memorial Garden from directly overhead

Memorial Garden is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 182 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is UT Tower Shooting Memorial, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 4.7 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
The University of Texas at Austin
Access
Yes
Fee
No
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates30.28688, -97.73966

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Artworks
Parks
  • Honors Quad: 0.1 mi
  • Capitol Mall: 0.5 mi
  • Eastwoods Neighborhood Park: 0.5 mi
  • Dell Technologies Plaza: 0.6 mi
  • Adams-Hemphill Neighborhood Park: 0.7 mi
Nature reserves: 55
Gardens: 53
  • Garden patch: 0.2 mi
  • Lady Bird Johnson Texas Capitol Flower Gardens: 0.8 mi
  • Luci and Ian's Family Hill Country Garden: 1.0 mi
  • Alamo Community Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Este Garden: 1.2 mi
Museums: 40
Peaks: 39
Attractions: 19
  • Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 0.6 mi
  • French Legation State Historic Site: 1.4 mi
  • Statesman Bat Observation Center: 1.9 mi
  • South Congress Bat Colony: 2.0 mi
  • Rock Wall At Zilker: 2.1 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Twin Falls: 5.1 mi
  • Sculpture Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Hill of Life Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Lower Bull Creek Falls: 6.1 mi
  • Middle Bull Creek Falls: 6.4 mi
Springs: 8
Ghost towns: 6
Cliffs: 4
  • Bird Bluff: 3.8 mi
  • Seismic Wall: 4.6 mi
  • Fern Bluff: 16.3 mi
  • Chalk Bluff: 21.7 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Covered Picnic Tables: 6.3 mi
  • Stone picnic table: 6.9 mi
  • The Learning Tree: 8.5 mi
  • Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shingle HillsW 273°433 m20.7 mi
Wallace MountainWSW 251°406 m21.1 mi
Travis PeakNW 315°382 m24.3 mi
Round MountainNW 325°366 m24.8 mi
Chalk KnobW 271°364 m15.1 mi
Flint Rock HillWNW 281°360 m14.3 mi
Signal HillWSW 243°353 m14.5 mi
Polecat KnobNW 323°346 m22.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:1119:43
June solstice06:3020:0120:37
September equinox07:2018:5719:29
December solstice07:2416:5917:36

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525663707783868781726154
Precip in2.61.92.92.45.03.72.02.73.53.92.92.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin-camp Mabry, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel2,085 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle1,841 obs
  • Pond Slider1,064 obs
  • ballmoss777 obs
  • Turk's cap740 obs
  • Green Anole728 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird711 obs
  • White-winged Dove692 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/724758478

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