East Metropolitan Park
East Metropolitan Park is a park in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 169 m. Jollyville Plateau stands 340 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Lockwood Cemetery, a historic site 1.3 miles away. Texas Brazos Trail passes 9.8 miles off. 24 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Travis County
How to reach it
- 9.8 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 16.9 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 15.0 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Lockwood Cemetery: 1.3 mi
- Union Lee Baptist Church: 3.3 mi
- Webberville: 4.2 mi
- Webberville Ebenezer Baptist Church: 4.2 mi
- James Euwin Edmiston: 4.4 mi
- Carriage Hills Park: 3.7 mi
- Bell Farms Park South: 3.8 mi
- Little Webberville Park: 3.9 mi
- Bell Farms Park North: 4.0 mi
- Timmermann Park: 4.1 mi
- Fork in the Road: 7.6 mi
- Ms. Pearl the Giant Squirrel Statue: 8.3 mi
- The Giant Rooster: 9.0 mi
- Lotus: 10.1 mi
- Ocho: 10.3 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 10.0 mi
- Asian American Resource Center Intergenerational Garden: 10.1 mi
- Zen Garden: 10.1 mi
- E.R. Fincher III Garden: 10.6 mi
- Monoculture: 10.8 mi
- Indiangrass Wildlife Sanctuary: 4.7 mi
- Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Onion Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 8.0 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 8.4 mi
- Elgin Depot Museum: 10.2 mi
- The Thinkery: 10.8 mi
- Bohls House: 11.9 mi
- George Washington Carver Museum: 12.0 mi
- Texas State Cemetery Visitor Center: 12.1 mi
- Bald Knob: 5.3 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 8.5 mi
- Caldwell Knob: 9.8 mi
- Pilot Knob: 14.1 mi
- Jaecks Hill: 15.0 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 12.3 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 12.5 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 12.6 mi
- Austin Table Tennis Association: 13.3 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 13.3 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 13.6 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 13.9 mi
- Hidden Falls: 16.3 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 16.6 mi
- Link Falls: 16.6 mi
- McDuff: 5.6 mi
- New Sweden: 8.5 mi
- Dunstan: 14.3 mi
- Phelan: 14.7 mi
- Palm Valley: 18.7 mi
- Shady Spring: 12.5 mi
- Seiders Spring: 13.4 mi
- Eliza Spring: 14.8 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 14.9 mi
- Queen's Bath: 22.9 mi
- Bird Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Seismic Wall: 16.7 mi
- Fern Bluff: 20.5 mi
- Red Bluffs: 20.7 mi
- Stone picnic table: 13.4 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 17.2 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
- The Learning Tree: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of East Metropolitan Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jollyville Plateau | WNW 291° | 340 m | 20.6 mi |
| Comanche Peak | WNW 291° | 325 m | 22.4 mi |
| Dittmar Hill | W 269° | 324 m | 23.5 mi |
| Flintridge Hill | W 273° | 311 m | 18.5 mi |
| Rabbit Hill | NNW 335° | 293 m | 22.8 mi |
| Shepherd Mountain | WNW 287° | 286 m | 17.3 mi |
| Martin Hill | NW 318° | 284 m | 16.0 mi |
| Cat Mountain | WNW 287° | 283 m | 15.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:10 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:56 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:58 | 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 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 82 | 84 | 85 | 79 | 70 | 59 | 52 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elgin 1 N, 11 mi away.
- Bitterweed40 obs
- bracted fanpetals38 obs
- common yarrow35 obs
- Texas Paintbrush34 obs
- common wild petunia32 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider28 obs
- Yellow Garden Spider26 obs
- silverleaf nightshade25 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/274731474
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