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Balcones Canyonlands Preserve - Austin Simon

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Balcones Canyonlands Preserve - Austin Simon from directly overhead

Balcones Canyonlands Preserve - Austin Simon is a nature reserve in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 306 m. Shovel Mountain stands 472 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Balcones Canyonlands Preserve - Lime Creek, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 1.3 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Austin
Getting there

How to reach it

Coordinates30.49483, -97.87505

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Discovery Well Cave Preserve: 1.3 mi
  • Godzilla Preserve: 1.4 mi
  • Cypress Canyon Park: 1.6 mi
  • Whitestone Oaks Private Park: 1.6 mi
  • Westside Preserve: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Protected Promise: 3.1 mi
  • Wings: 3.7 mi
  • Dancin': 3.7 mi
  • Balancing Apple: 3.7 mi
  • Sentinel: 3.7 mi
Gardens: 55
Nature reserves: 52
Peaks: 51
Museums: 38
  • Interpretive Center: 10.3 mi
  • Museum of Ice Cream: 10.9 mi
  • Museum of Illusions: 11.1 mi
  • Palm House Museum: 11.8 mi
  • Laguna Gloria Art Museum: 14.0 mi
Attractions: 20
  • Texas paintball: 2.2 mi
  • Client Innovation Center: 11.5 mi
  • Austin Table Tennis Association: 12.5 mi
  • Artificial Chimney: 13.2 mi
  • Abandoned zoo cage: 13.3 mi
Springs: 10
  • Queen's Bath: 2.7 mi
  • Apple Spring: 5.3 mi
  • Shady Spring: 13.0 mi
  • Seiders Spring: 15.1 mi
  • Deep Eddy Pool: 16.3 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Small Falls: 9.1 mi
  • Link Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 10.0 mi
  • Middle Bull Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Lower Bull Creek Falls: 10.4 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 6.1 mi
  • Hidden Falls Water Falls and Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
  • The Learning Tree: 19.3 mi
  • Covered Picnic Tables: 20.1 mi
  • Stone picnic table: 23.2 mi
Cliffs: 5
Ghost towns: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Balcones Canyonlands Preserve - Austin Simon. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shovel MountainW 261°472 m22.5 mi
Shingle HillsSW 223°433 m18.4 mi
WildCat MountainWNW 298°429 m18.4 mi
North PeakWNW 299°425 m19.1 mi
Tater HillWNW 300°422 m15.4 mi
Boultinghouse MountainWNW 291°418 m13.5 mi
Wallace MountainSSW 209°406 m24.2 mi
NegroheadWNW 291°405 m11.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:1219:43
June solstice06:3120:0220:38
September equinox07:2118:5819:30
December solstice07:2516:5917:36

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, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1488875031

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