Bowling Green Park
Bowling Green Park is a park in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 204 m. Pat Dick Hill stands 291 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is North Lakes Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 1.0 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Bowling Green Park is an 18-acre park just southeast of North Lakes Park (actually, they're sort of connected). It's got pretty trees, lots of grass and a community garden!
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Denton
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- North Lakes Park: 0.3 mi
- Evers Park: 1.0 mi
- North Pointe Park: 1.1 mi
- Jim Carter Memorial Park: 1.2 mi
- Cooper Glen Open Space: 1.3 mi
- Shadow Garden: 1.7 mi
- Statue of Diego Velázquez: 1.7 mi
- Carrizo: 1.7 mi
- In High Places: 1.8 mi
- November Devil: 1.8 mi
- Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary: 1.2 mi
- Ken Dickson Environmental Learning Area: 1.6 mi
- Buisness Leadership Building (BLB) Zen garden: 2.0 mi
- Bill Crouch Garden: 2.0 mi
- Shiloh Field Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- Blue Mound: 3.8 mi
- Bald Knob: 4.6 mi
- Pilot Knob: 6.7 mi
- Long Point: 7.8 mi
- Crawford Hill: 8.1 mi
- Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection Museum: 1.3 mi
- Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum: 1.8 mi
- Bayless-Selby House Museum: 1.8 mi
- Explorium: 1.9 mi
- African American Museum: 1.9 mi
- North Texas State Fair and Rodeo: 0.6 mi
- Wildhorse Golf Club: 8.7 mi
- Space Shuttle VR: 19.6 mi
- Bubble Planet Experience: 19.7 mi
- Crayola Experience: 23.1 mi
- Bob Jones Nature Center: 16.8 mi
- Thrive Nature Park: 16.9 mi
- Arbor Hills Nature Preserve: 21.6 mi
- Little Elm Beach: 12.8 mi
- Post Oak Beach: 13.3 mi
- Elizabethtown: 16.7 mi
- Camey Spur: 19.9 mi
- Shayhan Point: 9.6 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bowling Green Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pat Dick Hill | WSW 257° | 291 m | 24.1 mi |
| Blue Mound | SSW 210° | 264 m | 23.5 mi |
| Mount Olive | NNE 14° | 255 m | 16.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SSW 206° | 253 m | 6.7 mi |
| Blue Mound | NW 308° | 244 m | 3.8 mi |
| Long Point | SSW 208° | 234 m | 7.8 mi |
| Terrapin Hill | N 3° | 232 m | 21.6 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 203° | 231 m | 8.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:05 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:48 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 48 | 56 | 63 | 72 | 80 | 84 | 84 | 76 | 65 | 54 | 46 |
| Precip in | 1.9 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Denton Municpal AP, 4 mi away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel1,683 obs
- Northern Mockingbird917 obs
- Western Honey Bee819 obs
- Texas Spiny Lizard741 obs
- Northern Cardinal715 obs
- Black Vulture672 obs
- European Starling607 obs
- White-winged Dove584 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/266885086
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