Dow Park
Dow Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Blackwell Peninsula stands 3 m to the east-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Site of Lubbock Ranch, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 2.5 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1957
- Elevation
- 11 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Houston Parks and Recreation Department
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Site of Lubbock Ranch: 0.1 mi
- First Airplane Flight Over Texas: 2.4 mi
- Harrisburg-Jackson Cemetery: 3.6 mi
- Old Harrisburg: 3.6 mi
- Texan Army Crossing of Buffalo Bayou (San Jacinto): 3.7 mi
- Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden: 1.3 mi
- Houston Botanic Garden: 1.5 mi
- Culinary Garden: 1.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 1.6 mi
- Reveille Park: 1.2 mi
- Garden Villas Park: 1.4 mi
- Ray Park: 1.4 mi
- Marguerite Ray Park: 1.5 mi
- Charlton Park: 1.6 mi
- Round About: 5.4 mi
- Healing Nature: 5.4 mi
- Healing Nature: 5.4 mi
- Doble Physichromic Modular: 5.5 mi
- Split Level: 5.6 mi
- Great Silver Fleet Hangar - 1940 Air Terminal Museum: 1.4 mi
- 1940 Air Terminal Museum: 1.5 mi
- Pasadena Historical Museum: 4.9 mi
- Blaffer Art Museum: 5.9 mi
- Lone Star Flight Museum: 7.2 mi
- Flow Works: 7.9 mi
- Weather Station: 7.9 mi
- Eco Station: 7.9 mi
- TXU Energy presents Mythical Realms: 8.0 mi
- Frog Wall: 8.5 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 4.1 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 7.0 mi
- Garver Greenspace: 7.2 mi
- Native Coastal Prairie Preserve: 8.5 mi
- Coastal Prairie: 10.4 mi
- Lake Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 8.0 mi
- Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 8.0 mi
- CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 8.0 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 8.1 mi
- Red Bluff: 17.9 mi
- Red Bluff: 17.9 mi
- Needle Point: 23.7 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 10.1 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 10.5 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 15.7 mi
- Mesquite Knoll: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dow Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwell Peninsula | ENE 77° | 3 m | 15.7 mi |
| Mesquite Knoll | E 91° | 0 m | 20.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 19:01 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:50 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:48 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 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 | 65 | 71 | 78 | 83 | 85 | 85 | 81 | 73 | 63 | 57 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston William P Hobby AP, 1 mi away.
- Black Swallowtail124 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee92 obs
- Gulf Fritillary85 obs
- Western Honey Bee78 obs
- Salt Marsh Moth72 obs
- Fiery Skipper71 obs
- Monarch66 obs
- Green Treefrog43 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/45251787
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