Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is a nature reserve in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 179 m. Chalk Knob stands 364 m to the west, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Decker United Methodist Church and Community, a historic site 1.3 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 12 miles off. 33 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 12.3 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 14.2 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 18.7 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Decker United Methodist Church and Community: 1.3 mi
- Decker Swedish Evangelical Free Church and Cemetery: 2.5 mi
- Reuben Hornsby: 2.7 mi
- Site of the Home of Reuben Hornsby: 2.8 mi
- Josephus Hornsby: 2.9 mi
- Agave Neighborhood Park: 2.6 mi
- Northeast Park: 2.9 mi
- Davis White Northeast Neighborhood Park: 3.1 mi
- Burr Field: 3.3 mi
- Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt: 3.9 mi
- The Giant Rooster: 4.7 mi
- Ocho: 5.5 mi
- Lotus: 5.6 mi
- Fork in the Road: 5.7 mi
- Arachnophilia: 5.7 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 5.3 mi
- Asian American Resource Center Intergenerational Garden: 5.6 mi
- Zen Garden: 5.6 mi
- Monoculture: 6.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.0 mi
- Indiangrass Wildlife Sanctuary: 1.4 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 4.4 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Hornsby Bend Ecological Research Area: 5.4 mi
- The Thinkery: 6.0 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 7.4 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 7.4 mi
- George Washington Carver Museum: 7.4 mi
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum: 7.5 mi
- Bald Knob: 2.9 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 5.1 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 10.3 mi
- Mount Barker: 10.3 mi
- Mount Lucas: 10.4 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 7.9 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 7.9 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 8.7 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 8.8 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 8.8 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 10.2 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 10.5 mi
- Hidden Falls: 11.7 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 11.9 mi
- Link Falls: 12.0 mi
- New Sweden: 9.6 mi
- McDuff: 9.7 mi
- Palm Valley: 17.2 mi
- Dunstan: 18.8 mi
- Phelan: 19.0 mi
- Seiders Spring: 8.6 mi
- Shady Spring: 8.8 mi
- Eliza Spring: 10.1 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 10.2 mi
- Queen's Bath: 18.6 mi
- Bird Bluff: 6.6 mi
- Seismic Wall: 12.2 mi
- Fern Bluff: 17.5 mi
- Red Bluffs: 24.7 mi
- Stone picnic table: 10.0 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 13.0 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 15.8 mi
- The Learning Tree: 16.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalk Knob | W 270° | 364 m | 23.2 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 276° | 360 m | 22.3 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 251° | 353 m | 22.1 mi |
| Jollyville Plateau | WNW 296° | 340 m | 16.0 mi |
| Maul Hill | W 278° | 330 m | 22.0 mi |
| Comanche Peak | WNW 295° | 325 m | 17.8 mi |
| Friday Mountain | WSW 245° | 325 m | 23.4 mi |
| Dittmar Hill | W 267° | 324 m | 18.7 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 | 07:19 | 18:57 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:35 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 85 | 85 | 79 | 70 | 59 | 52 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin Bergstrom Intl AP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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- Austin · 8 mi
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