Waters Park
Waters Park is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 213 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Balcones District Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 6.3 miles off. 38 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1996
- Material
- aluminium
What to expect
- Operated by
- Texas Historical Commission
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 18.6 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 29.1 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Balcones District Park: 0.4 mi
- Alderbrook Pocket Park: 0.8 mi
- Walnut Creek Greenbelt: 0.9 mi
- Northside Lawn: 1.1 mi
- Gracywoods Park: 1.2 mi
- St. Stephen's Missionary Baptist Church: 0.5 mi
- Walnut Creek Baptist Church: 2.3 mi
- The Gault Homestead: 2.6 mi
- Merrilltown Cemetery: 2.8 mi
- War Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Bull Creek Management Unit: 4.2 mi
- Stillhouse Hollow Nature Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Barrow Nature Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Beck Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 6.2 mi
- Lamplight Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- North Austin Community Garden: 3.4 mi
- Juan Navarro High School Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- Fort Dessau Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Our Lady's Prayer Garden: 4.5 mi
- Lotus: 5.5 mi
- Thicket: 6.2 mi
- Blue Blood: 7.9 mi
- Ocho: 8.1 mi
- Nessy: 8.2 mi
- Museum of Ice Cream: 1.3 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 1.7 mi
- Bohls House: 6.4 mi
- Palm House Museum: 6.8 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 7.6 mi
- Martin Hill: 3.0 mi
- Cat Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Shepherd Mountain: 6.7 mi
- Mount Lucas: 7.0 mi
- Mount Barker: 7.3 mi
- Client Innovation Center: 1.0 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 2.0 mi
- Austin Table Tennis Association: 3.3 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 7.7 mi
- Lake Austin: 9.1 mi
- Hidden Falls: 4.5 mi
- Link Falls: 4.9 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 5.4 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 5.6 mi
- Small Falls: 9.8 mi
- Shady Spring: 1.8 mi
- Seiders Spring: 7.9 mi
- Queen's Bath: 8.8 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 10.3 mi
- Eliza Spring: 11.1 mi
- Fern Bluff: 7.5 mi
- Bird Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Seismic Wall: 13.0 mi
- Comanche Bluff: 24.1 mi
- Palm Valley: 10.3 mi
- New Sweden: 11.8 mi
- McDuff: 19.8 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 15.1 mi
- Stone picnic table: 15.7 mi
- The Learning Tree: 16.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Waters Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | WSW 251° | 433 m | 23.8 mi |
| Boultinghouse Mountain | WNW 295° | 418 m | 24.7 mi |
| Negrohead | WNW 295° | 405 m | 22.8 mi |
| Travis Peak | WNW 293° | 382 m | 20.7 mi |
| Big Bear Hill | NW 307° | 366 m | 20.5 mi |
| Chalk Knob | WSW 243° | 364 m | 18.9 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WSW 249° | 360 m | 17.0 mi |
| Polecat Knob | WNW 301° | 346 m | 17.4 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 | 20:02 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:35 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 69 | 58 | 50 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin Great Hills, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/12453752242
Day trips start here
- Austin · 10 mi
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