Bay Area Park
Bay Area Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Barbers Hill stands 25 m to the north-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Brookwood Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 3.4 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Brookwood Park: 0.8 mi
- Liberty Park: 1.0 mi
- Alumni Plaza: 1.0 mi
- Armand Bayou Park: 1.0 mi
- Path and Wendell Wilson Park: 1.2 mi
- Spiritus Mundi: 1.1 mi
- Healing Nature: 17.3 mi
- Healing Nature: 17.3 mi
- Round About: 17.3 mi
- Doble Physichromic Modular: 17.4 mi
- Webster Presbyterian Church: 2.2 mi
- Harris County Boys' School Archeological Site: 2.2 mi
- Nassau Bay Spire: 2.7 mi
- Contributions to the Texas Rice Industry by Seito and Kiyoaki Saibara: 3.7 mi
- Ritson Morris and Elmwood Plantation: 4.6 mi
- Vegetable Garden: 1.0 mi
- Watersmart Garden: 1.0 mi
- Genoa Friendship Gardens: 6.0 mi
- Crystal Bay Butterfly Garden: 11.3 mi
- Community Garden: 12.3 mi
- Bay Area Museum: 2.1 mi
- Space Center Houston: 3.0 mi
- Vietnam War Flight Museum: 4.9 mi
- Lone Star Flight Museum: 5.3 mi
- Frank J. Brown Heritage Museum and Barn: 8.1 mi
- Shuttle Carrier Aircraft: 3.0 mi
- Falcon 9 Rocket: 3.0 mi
- Shuttle Independence: 3.0 mi
- Mission Briefing Center: 3.0 mi
- Mission Mars: 3.0 mi
- JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 19.6 mi
- Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 19.6 mi
- CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 19.7 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 19.7 mi
- Lake Picnic Area: 20.1 mi
- Armand Bayou Nature Center: 1.0 mi
- Native Coastal Prairie Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 14.7 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 17.9 mi
- Garver Greenspace: 18.2 mi
- Red Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Red Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Needle Point: 18.2 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 9.3 mi
- Mesquite Knoll: 10.5 mi
- Barbers Hill: 21.0 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 21.5 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bay Area Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbers Hill | NNE 33° | 25 m | 21.0 mi |
| Blackwell Peninsula | NNE 27° | 3 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mesquite Knoll | ENE 64° | 0 m | 10.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:49 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:47 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 16:51 | 17:27 |
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 | 55 | 59 | 64 | 70 | 77 | 82 | 84 | 84 | 80 | 72 | 63 | 57 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 6.5 | 4.4 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 5.8 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston Nwso, 9 mi away.
- American Alligator604 obs
- American Bullfrog377 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron364 obs
- Banded Watersnake363 obs
- Northern Cardinal300 obs
- Little Blue Heron256 obs
- Brown Anole254 obs
- American beautyberry238 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/86166339
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