South Texas Botanical Garden & Nature Center
South Texas Botanical Garden & Nature Center is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Alazan Mott stands 2 m to the south-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Oso Creek Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Texas Tropical Trail passes 2.5 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Oso Creek Park: 0.4 mi
- Stony Brook Park: 0.7 mi
- Reflections Park: 0.8 mi
- Captain Falcon Park: 1.0 mi
- Captian Falcon Park: 1.1 mi
- Jovita González de Mireles: 1.3 mi
- Sunshine Cemetery: 3.6 mi
- Travis Baptist Church: 3.6 mi
- Stanley L. Kostoryz: 4.3 mi
- Moravian Club of Nueces County: 4.5 mi
- Texas Surf Museum: 9.6 mi
- Selena Museum: 10.3 mi
- Tejano Civil Rights Museum: 10.3 mi
- Museum Of Hispanic Culture: 10.4 mi
- Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures: 10.5 mi
- Hans and Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge: 5.5 mi
- Redhead Pond Wildlife Management Area: 7.2 mi
- Francine Cohn Preserve: 15.6 mi
- Shamrock Island Preserve: 16.1 mi
- Pelican Island Sanctuary: 19.1 mi
- Fourmile Hill: 12.4 mi
- Big Hill: 13.2 mi
- Little Dagger Hill: 14.6 mi
- Alazan Mott: 18.5 mi
- Green Hill: 20.2 mi
- University Beach: 6.6 mi
- Corpus Christi North Beach: 11.7 mi
- J P Luby: 12.9 mi
- New Port Pass: 13.3 mi
- Malaquite Beach: 16.6 mi
- The Great Heron: 4.6 mi
- Selena Memorial Statue: 9.7 mi
- Orion's Belt: 10.1 mi
- Corpus Christi Watergarden: 10.6 mi
- Giant milk bottle: 11.9 mi
- American Bank Center: 10.5 mi
- Fan Pavillion: 11.0 mi
- Port Aransas/Mustang Island Tourism Bureau & Chamber of Commerce: 24.2 mi
- The Learning Garden: 10.0 mi
- Lytton Memorial Rose Garden: 10.4 mi
- McGloins Bluff: 16.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of South Texas Botanical Garden & Nature Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alazan Mott | SSW 195° | 2 m | 18.5 mi |
| Big Hill | SSE 150° | 1 m | 13.2 mi |
| Little Dagger Hill | SSE 157° | 1 m | 14.6 mi |
| Green Hill | S 171° | 1 m | 20.2 mi |
| Dagger Hill | S 172° | 1 m | 21.6 mi |
| Big Ball Hill | S 172° | 1 m | 24.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:11 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:35 | 19:55 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:57 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 17:05 | 17:40 |
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 | 56 | 61 | 66 | 71 | 77 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 80 | 74 | 66 | 59 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 6.5 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — C C Botanical Gardens, under a mile away.
- Mediterranean House Gecko543 obs
- Gulf Coast Toad401 obs
- Brown Anole361 obs
- Yellow-winged Pareuchaetes Moth345 obs
- Belted Grass-veneer330 obs
- Four-spotted Mantisfly299 obs
- Rice Stink Bug279 obs
- Carpenterworm Moth272 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.
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