Brackenridge Park
Brackenridge Park is a park in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 203 m. Black Hill stands 484 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is The Mexican Village, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 4.1 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of San Antonio
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 10.9 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- The Mexican Village: 0.2 mi
- Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Company: 0.2 mi
- Acequia de Arriba: 0.3 mi
- Ludwig Mahncke: 0.4 mi
- Menefee Tree: 0.9 mi
- Davis Park: 0.2 mi
- Mahncke Park: 0.6 mi
- Woody Tucker Park: 0.6 mi
- Headwaters Sanctuary: 0.8 mi
- San Antonio River Walk - Museum Reach: 0.9 mi
- Hillcrest: 5.8 mi
- Ninemile Hill: 7.2 mi
- Calf Hill: 7.9 mi
- Prickly Pear Hill: 8.5 mi
- Theis Hill: 9.3 mi
- South Texas Museum of Popular Culture "TexPop": 0.4 mi
- The DoSeum: 0.4 mi
- HEBuddy Treehouse: 0.5 mi
- B. Naylor Morton Research and Collections Center: 0.5 mi
- The Witte Museum: 0.6 mi
- Japanese Tea Garden: 0.3 mi
- Murchison Tower: 0.6 mi
- Blue Hole: 0.9 mi
- Little Blue Hole: 0.9 mi
- River boat boarding: 1.1 mi
- Sunken Garden Gate: 0.2 mi
- Magic Stones: 0.6 mi
- The Grotto by Carlos Cortes: 1.3 mi
- F.I.S.H.: 1.3 mi
- Vision del Futuro: 2.0 mi
- Japanese Peace Garden: 1.0 mi
- San Antonio Botanical Garden: 1.0 mi
- Alamo Heights Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Frost Gardens: 2.1 mi
- McNutt River Gardens: 2.1 mi
- Fratt: 6.3 mi
- Coker: 7.0 mi
- Adkins: 15.0 mi
- Lone Oak Community: 15.2 mi
- Carpenter: 18.3 mi
- San Pedro Spring: 1.7 mi
- Devine Spring: 15.6 mi
- Huesta Springs: 15.8 mi
- Walnut Spring: 16.0 mi
- Panther Springs: 16.0 mi
- Mitchell Lake Audubon Center: 10.8 mi
- Bird of Prey: 11.8 mi
- Medallion Park: 14.0 mi
- Menoo Woods: 14.5 mi
- Medina River Natural Area: 14.9 mi
- Alumni Pavillion: 5.3 mi
- The Picnic Place: 7.5 mi
- Medicine Wall: 11.1 mi
- Red Bluff: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.1 miles of Brackenridge Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hill | WNW 301° | 484 m | 18.2 mi |
| Round Hill | NW 321° | 465 m | 20.7 mi |
| Cross Mountain | NW 321° | 460 m | 18.2 mi |
| High Hill | NNW 343° | 456 m | 16.6 mi |
| Leon Hill | NNW 340° | 451 m | 15.3 mi |
| Sykes Hill | NNW 343° | 449 m | 17.9 mi |
| Butte Hill | NNW 345° | 449 m | 18.1 mi |
| Aue Hill | NNW 331° | 444 m | 16.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:14 | 19:46 |
| June solstice | 06:35 | 20:03 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 19:01 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 17:05 | 17:40 |
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 | 52 | 56 | 62 | 69 | 76 | 82 | 84 | 85 | 79 | 71 | 60 | 53 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Antonio Incarnate Word, under a mile away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel2,958 obs
- American Robin2,436 obs
- Mallard2,148 obs
- House Sparrow1,846 obs
- straggler daisy1,772 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle1,580 obs
- Common Pill Woodlouse1,537 obs
- ballmoss1,522 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.
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