Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve
Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve is a nature reserve in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 161 m. Chalk Knob stands 364 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Northeast Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 11 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 161 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Austin Parks and Recreation Department
How to reach it
- 10.6 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 16.5 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 22.2 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Northeast Park: 0.8 mi
- Davis White Northeast Neighborhood Park: 1.6 mi
- Dottie Jordan Park: 1.7 mi
- Andrews School Park: 1.8 mi
- Burr Field: 2.1 mi
- Lotus: 2.1 mi
- Ocho: 3.3 mi
- Nessy: 3.9 mi
- Arachnophilia: 3.9 mi
- Thicket: 3.9 mi
- Asian American Resource Center Intergenerational Garden: 2.1 mi
- Zen Garden: 2.1 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- Juan Navarro High School Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- North Austin Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 1.4 mi
- Indiangrass Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.4 mi
- Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 6.1 mi
- The Thinkery: 3.8 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 4.7 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 4.7 mi
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum: 5.5 mi
- Texas Memorial Museum: 5.6 mi
- Bald Knob: 3.5 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 6.3 mi
- Mount Barker: 7.3 mi
- Mount Lucas: 7.3 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 7.4 mi
- Austin Table Tennis Association: 5.3 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 5.5 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 6.0 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 6.4 mi
- Client Innovation Center: 6.5 mi
- Hidden Falls: 8.3 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 8.5 mi
- Link Falls: 8.6 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 10.5 mi
- New Sweden: 9.9 mi
- McDuff: 13.2 mi
- Palm Valley: 15.1 mi
- Dunstan: 22.2 mi
- Lytton Springs: 22.3 mi
- Shady Spring: 5.4 mi
- Seiders Spring: 6.0 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 8.1 mi
- Eliza Spring: 8.3 mi
- Queen's Bath: 15.1 mi
- Stone picnic table: 10.4 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 11.9 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 12.3 mi
- The Learning Tree: 14.5 mi
- Bird Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Seismic Wall: 10.6 mi
- Fern Bluff: 14.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalk Knob | W 263° | 364 m | 20.5 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 270° | 360 m | 19.4 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 243° | 353 m | 20.5 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 309° | 346 m | 23.9 mi |
| Hamilton Hill | NW 316° | 345 m | 23.8 mi |
| Jess Maynard Hill | NW 315° | 343 m | 22.1 mi |
| Jollyville Plateau | WNW 292° | 340 m | 12.6 mi |
| Maul Hill | W 272° | 330 m | 19.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:11 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| 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: 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, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/585504410
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