Garden Villas Park
Garden Villas Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Blackwell Peninsula stands 3 m to the east-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Robert Stuart Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 2.2 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Houston Parks and Recreation Department
How to reach it
- 2.2 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Robert Stuart Park: 0.6 mi
- Stewart Park: 0.8 mi
- Carter Park: 0.8 mi
- Andover Park: 1.1 mi
- Reveille Park: 1.2 mi
- Site of Lubbock Ranch: 1.4 mi
- Farnsworth & Chambers Building: 3.2 mi
- Harrisburg-Jackson Cemetery: 3.7 mi
- Old Harrisburg: 3.8 mi
- First Airplane Flight Over Texas: 3.8 mi
- Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden: 2.2 mi
- Houston Botanic Garden: 2.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 2.3 mi
- Culinary Garden: 2.3 mi
- Round About: 4.5 mi
- Healing Nature: 4.5 mi
- Healing Nature: 4.5 mi
- Doble Physichromic Modular: 4.6 mi
- Split Level: 4.7 mi
- Flow Works: 6.7 mi
- Weather Station: 6.7 mi
- Eco Station: 6.7 mi
- TXU Energy presents Mythical Realms: 6.8 mi
- Frog Wall: 7.3 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 4.2 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 6.5 mi
- Garver Greenspace: 6.7 mi
- Native Coastal Prairie Preserve: 9.9 mi
- Hogg Bird Sanctuary: 10.1 mi
- Lake Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 7.2 mi
- Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 7.2 mi
- CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 7.2 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 7.3 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 9.4 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 9.7 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 17.1 mi
- Mesquite Knoll: 21.9 mi
- Red Bluff: 19.3 mi
- Red Bluff: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Garden Villas Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwell Peninsula | ENE 78° | 3 m | 17.1 mi |
| Mesquite Knoll | E 90° | 0 m | 21.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 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, 2 mi away.
- Indian Peafowl17 obs
- Turk's cap15 obs
- peppervine15 obs
- eastern poison ivy14 obs
- straggler daisy14 obs
- Brown Anole13 obs
- Pinkladies12 obs
- Tievine12 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/46510383
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