UT Tower Shooting Memorial
UT Tower Shooting Memorial is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 180 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Memorial Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 4.7 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 2016-07-23
- Material
- granite
How to reach it
- 4.7 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 25.0 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
- 22.2 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pedogna: 0.1 mi
- Barbara Jordan Statue: 0.1 mi
- The Torchbearers: 0.1 mi
- Diana the Huntress: 0.1 mi
- The West: 0.1 mi
- 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: 0.6 mi
- Littlefield Home: 0.1 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr.: 0.2 mi
- Gerhard-Schoch House: 0.3 mi
- Dr. Robert Lee "R.L" Moore: 0.3 mi
- All Saints' Episcopal Church: 0.3 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.9 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 4.6 mi
- Shudde Fath Tract: 5.0 mi
- Memorial Garden: 0.0 mi
- 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
- Harry Ransom Center: 0.2 mi
- Texas Memorial Museum: 0.4 mi
- Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports: 0.5 mi
- Texas State History Museum: 0.5 mi
- Neill-Cochran House Museum: 0.5 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 3.1 mi
- Mount Barker: 3.3 mi
- Mount Lucas: 3.5 mi
- Mount Larson: 3.6 mi
- Cat Mountain: 5.1 mi
- 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: 2.2 mi
- 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
- Seiders Spring: 1.4 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 2.1 mi
- Eliza Spring: 2.4 mi
- Shady Spring: 8.2 mi
- Queen's Bath: 13.8 mi
- New Sweden: 15.9 mi
- McDuff: 17.1 mi
- Goforth: 18.6 mi
- Palm Valley: 19.1 mi
- Lytton Springs: 20.9 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.8 mi
- Seismic Wall: 4.6 mi
- Fern Bluff: 16.3 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 21.7 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 6.3 mi
- Stone picnic table: 6.9 mi
- The Learning Tree: 8.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of UT Tower Shooting Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 273° | 433 m | 20.7 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 251° | 406 m | 21.1 mi |
| Travis Peak | NW 315° | 382 m | 24.3 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 271° | 364 m | 15.1 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 281° | 360 m | 14.3 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 243° | 353 m | 14.5 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 323° | 346 m | 22.2 mi |
| Hamilton Hill | NNW 330° | 345 m | 22.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 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, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/6797111249
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- Austin · 1 mi
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