Gardens Park
Gardens Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Barbers Hill stands 25 m to the east-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Rusk Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 0.8 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Rusk Park: 0.5 mi
- Parklane Park: 1.1 mi
- Satsuma Gardens Park: 1.1 mi
- Red Bluff Park: 1.2 mi
- Sunset Park: 1.5 mi
- City of Pasadena: 1.1 mi
- Pasadena Independent School District: 1.1 mi
- Bob Harris Station: 1.2 mi
- Allen Ranch: 1.6 mi
- Vince's Bridge: 1.9 mi
- Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden: 4.4 mi
- Culinary Garden: 4.4 mi
- Pine Grove Garden: 4.4 mi
- Global Collection Garden: 4.4 mi
- Houston Botanic Garden: 4.4 mi
- Healing Nature: 8.6 mi
- Healing Nature: 8.6 mi
- Orbit II: 8.7 mi
- Round About: 8.7 mi
- Albertus Magnus: 8.7 mi
- Pasadena Historical Museum: 1.1 mi
- Proctor Museum of Natural Science: 5.8 mi
- Great Silver Fleet Hangar - 1940 Air Terminal Museum: 6.5 mi
- 1940 Air Terminal Museum: 6.6 mi
- Lone Star Flight Museum: 6.8 mi
- Ingenia Polymers Houston: 5.1 mi
- 'Burp the Bayou' Red Button: 11.1 mi
- Flow Works: 11.4 mi
- Eco Station: 11.4 mi
- Weather Station: 11.4 mi
- JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 10.4 mi
- Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 10.4 mi
- CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 10.4 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 10.5 mi
- Lake Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 5.4 mi
- Native Coastal Prairie Preserve: 6.3 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 8.4 mi
- Garver Greenspace: 8.6 mi
- Coastal Prairie: 9.3 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 10.8 mi
- Mesquite Knoll: 16.2 mi
- Barbers Hill: 20.7 mi
- Red Bluff: 14.5 mi
- Red Bluff: 14.5 mi
- Needle Point: 18.5 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 12.0 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 12.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Gardens Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbers Hill | ENE 60° | 25 m | 20.7 mi |
| Blackwell Peninsula | E 85° | 3 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mesquite Knoll | E 100° | 0 m | 16.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:50 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:47 | 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 | 54 | 58 | 64 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 85 | 86 | 81 | 72 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 7.9 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston-port, 6 mi away.
- Mallard23 obs
- Muscovy Duck19 obs
- Green Anole16 obs
- Pantropical Jumping Spider16 obs
- Yellow-rumped Warbler15 obs
- Gulf Coast Toad14 obs
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck11 obs
- Brown Anole11 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/584730460
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