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Northwest Recreation Center

Northwest Recreation Center from directly overhead

Northwest Recreation Center is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 208 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 5.2 miles off. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
208 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates30.33409, -97.75154

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
Artworks
Nature reserves: 57
Gardens: 54
  • Prayer Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Infant Jesus of Prague Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Our Lady's Prayer Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Mayfield Gardens: 1.9 mi
  • University of Texas Microfarm: 2.0 mi
Peaks: 42
Museums: 41
Attractions: 19
  • Armor and Artillery Row: 1.6 mi
  • Austin Table Tennis Association: 2.9 mi
  • Lake Austin: 3.1 mi
  • Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 3.9 mi
  • Artificial Chimney: 4.6 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Lower Bull Creek Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Middle Bull Creek Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Link Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Hill of Life Falls: 6.5 mi
Springs: 8
Ghost towns: 5
Cliffs: 4
  • Seismic Wall: 6.8 mi
  • Bird Bluff: 6.9 mi
  • Fern Bluff: 13.1 mi
  • Chalk Bluff: 23.4 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Covered Picnic Tables: 8.9 mi
  • Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
  • Stone picnic table: 10.3 mi
  • The Learning Tree: 10.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shingle HillsW 264°433 m20.1 mi
Wallace MountainWSW 243°406 m21.7 mi
NegroheadNW 310°405 m23.8 mi
Bald MountainNW 307°383 m24.3 mi
Travis PeakNW 310°382 m21.6 mi
Round MountainNW 322°366 m21.7 mi
Big Bear HillNW 322°366 m22.7 mi
Chalk KnobWSW 258°364 m14.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:1119:43
June solstice06:3020:0220:37
September equinox07:2018:5719:29
December solstice07:2416:5917:35

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525663707783868781726154
Precip in2.61.92.92.45.03.72.02.73.53.92.92.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin-camp Mabry, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Green Anole260 obs
  • Texas mountain laurel252 obs
  • Western Honey Bee238 obs
  • evergreen sumac210 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel182 obs
  • Monarch173 obs
  • Gulf Coast Toad173 obs
  • Texas Spiny Lizard170 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43026096

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