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Mountain View Park

Mountain View Park from directly overhead

Mountain View Park is a park in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 202 m. Mount Donwell stands 218 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Westhaven Park, a park 1.1 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 7.7 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates32.72472, -96.90368

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Attractions
Museums: 53
  • Fred and Barbara Clark Telling Restoration Hangar: 4.1 mi
  • Commemorative Air Force Headquarters: 4.1 mi
  • Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center: 4.1 mi
  • Oswald Rooming House Museum: 5.2 mi
  • International Museum of Cultures: 6.4 mi
Nature reserves: 15
Peaks: 6
  • Chalk Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Murray Hill: 18.3 mi
  • Mount Donwell: 20.7 mi
  • Flower Mound: 22.2 mi
  • Poverty Knob: 23.2 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic Outpost: 5.1 mi
  • Point Nancy Carolyn at Bachman Lake: 8.9 mi
  • Group Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
Cliffs: 3
  • Cedar Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Red Bluff: 17.0 mi
  • Bluff Overlook: 19.0 mi
Springs: 2
  • Hawkins Spring: 17.0 mi
  • McKamy Spring: 17.9 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Lynn Creek Park Beach: 9.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • SoPac Trail Rest Area: 12.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mountain View Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DonwellNW 310°218 m20.7 mi
Poverty KnobSW 229°216 m23.2 mi
Murray HillWSW 253°209 m18.3 mi
Chalk HillNNE 29°202 m1.6 mi
Flower MoundNNW 335°202 m22.2 mi
Mayor's HillNW 318°180 m23.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0719:40
June solstice06:2120:0320:39
September equinox07:1718:5319:26
December solstice07:2716:4917:26

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485159667482868679685749
Precip in2.62.63.63.74.33.91.91.83.04.52.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dallas Redbird AP, 4 mi away.

  • Texas bluebonnet157 obs
  • Quihoui privet104 obs
  • Antelopehorn Milkweed91 obs
  • Engelmann daisy86 obs
  • Dakota mock vervain81 obs
  • Western Honey Bee61 obs
  • Pond Slider56 obs
  • Tenpetal Anemone55 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/104473783

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