Metz Park
Metz Park is a park in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 140 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Manuel and Robert Donley Pocket Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 5.1 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 21.6 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 22.8 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 24 mi
- Sinkholes · 30 mi
- Wetland Wonders · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Manuel and Robert Donley Pocket Park: 0.2 mi
- Snake Island: 0.4 mi
- Longhorn Shores at Town Lake Metropolitan Park: 0.4 mi
- Oswaldo A.B. Cantu/Pan Am Neighborhood Park: 0.5 mi
- Peace Point at Town Lake Metropolitan Park: 0.5 mi
- Ghost Harps: 0.2 mi
- Absolute Equality: Unity Tunnel: 0.4 mi
- Cenotaphs: 0.5 mi
- Tenderly: 0.7 mi
- Don Vito Alessio Robles: 0.8 mi
- Zavala Elementary School: 0.4 mi
- Fiesta Gardens: 0.4 mi
- The Sing Family in Austin: 0.6 mi
- Parque Zaragoza: 0.8 mi
- Tillotson College: 0.9 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 1.5 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 3.1 mi
- Hornsby Bend Ecological Research Area: 4.5 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 0.5 mi
- Festival Beach Food Forest: 1.0 mi
- East Avenue Rain Garden: 1.2 mi
- E.R. Fincher III Garden: 1.3 mi
- Explorers Garden: 1.5 mi
- Texas State Cemetery Visitor Center: 1.1 mi
- George Washington Carver Museum: 1.3 mi
- French Legation Museum: 1.3 mi
- Republic of Texas Museum: 1.3 mi
- Republic of Texas History Center: 1.3 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 4.0 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 5.7 mi
- Mount Larson: 5.9 mi
- Mount Barker: 6.0 mi
- Mount Lucas: 6.2 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 1.3 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 1.7 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 1.7 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 2.1 mi
- Rock Wall At Zilker: 3.1 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 4.5 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 4.7 mi
- Twin Falls: 5.6 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 6.3 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 6.9 mi
- Eliza Spring: 3.2 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 3.7 mi
- Seiders Spring: 4.1 mi
- Shady Spring: 10.2 mi
- Queen's Bath: 16.5 mi
- McDuff: 15.4 mi
- New Sweden: 16.3 mi
- Goforth: 16.5 mi
- Lytton Springs: 18.3 mi
- Palm Valley: 20.9 mi
- Bird Bluff: 1.3 mi
- Seismic Wall: 4.9 mi
- Fern Bluff: 18.7 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 21.3 mi
- Stone picnic table: 4.4 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 5.5 mi
- The Learning Tree: 8.6 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Metz Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 279° | 433 m | 22.2 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 258° | 406 m | 21.7 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 280° | 364 m | 16.5 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WNW 289° | 360 m | 16.2 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 253° | 353 m | 14.7 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 324° | 346 m | 24.8 mi |
| Jess Maynard Hill | NNW 331° | 343 m | 23.7 mi |
| Jollyville Plateau | NW 322° | 340 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 68 | 59 | 51 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin 6S, 2 mi away.
- Great-tailed Grackle854 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel639 obs
- Turk's cap532 obs
- silverleaf nightshade528 obs
- White-tailed Deer511 obs
- ballmoss499 obs
- Great Blue Heron466 obs
- Northern Cardinal436 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/209603845
Day trips start here
- Austin · 2 mi
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