Oak View Park
Oak View Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 288 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Hills Municipal Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 3.8 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 288 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Austin Parks and Recreation Department
How to reach it
- 3.8 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 22.1 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Great Hills Municipal Park: 0.5 mi
- Great Hills Neighborhood Park: 0.8 mi
- Q-Ranch Park: 0.8 mi
- Tanglewood Park: 1.2 mi
- Mountain View Neighborhood Park: 1.5 mi
- Jolly Cemetery: 1.1 mi
- Jollyville Community and School: 1.3 mi
- Pond Springs Community and School: 2.0 mi
- Balcones Fault Aids Colonization of Texas: 2.3 mi
- St. Stephen's Missionary Baptist Church: 3.1 mi
- Protected Promise: 6.8 mi
- Blue Blood: 7.1 mi
- Thicket: 7.2 mi
- Lotus: 7.6 mi
- Wings: 8.2 mi
- Lamplight Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Prayer Garden: 4.5 mi
- Our Lady's Prayer Garden: 5.0 mi
- Infant Jesus of Prague Garden: 5.1 mi
- North Austin Community Garden: 5.5 mi
- Bull Creek Management Unit: 2.1 mi
- Barrow Nature Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Stillhouse Hollow Nature Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Balcones Canyonlands Preserve - Cuevas East: 5.1 mi
- Nalle Bunny Run Wildlife Preserve: 5.1 mi
- Shepherd Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Cat Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Jollyville Plateau: 4.8 mi
- Martin Hill: 4.9 mi
- Mount Lucas: 6.1 mi
- Museum of Ice Cream: 2.8 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 2.9 mi
- Texas Military Forces Museum: 7.2 mi
- Laguna Gloria Art Museum: 7.3 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 8.1 mi
- Client Innovation Center: 3.4 mi
- Austin Table Tennis Association: 4.3 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 5.5 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 7.2 mi
- Artificial Chimney: 8.1 mi
- Hidden Falls: 2.6 mi
- Link Falls: 2.8 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 3.4 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 3.7 mi
- Small Falls: 6.7 mi
- Shady Spring: 5.0 mi
- Queen's Bath: 5.6 mi
- Seiders Spring: 7.9 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 9.8 mi
- Eliza Spring: 10.6 mi
- Fern Bluff: 7.6 mi
- Seismic Wall: 12.1 mi
- Bird Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Eagle Bluffs: 23.2 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 24.9 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 3.5 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 14.4 mi
- The Learning Tree: 14.9 mi
- Stone picnic table: 16.2 mi
- Palm Valley: 12.4 mi
- New Sweden: 15.3 mi
- McDuff: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Oak View Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | WSW 247° | 433 m | 20.6 mi |
| Tater Hill | NW 304° | 422 m | 23.6 mi |
| Boultinghouse Mountain | WNW 298° | 418 m | 21.4 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | SW 229° | 406 m | 24.1 mi |
| Negrohead | WNW 299° | 405 m | 19.5 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WNW 296° | 383 m | 20.3 mi |
| Travis Peak | WNW 297° | 382 m | 17.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | NNW 342° | 368 m | 25.0 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 | 20:02 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:59 | 17:35 |
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 | 49 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 69 | 58 | 50 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin Great Hills, under a mile away.
- White-tailed Deer588 obs
- Northern Cardinal505 obs
- Texas Spiny Lizard353 obs
- straggler daisy283 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel273 obs
- Yaupon Holly253 obs
- cedar sage248 obs
- Common Raccoon247 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/31047409
Day trips start here
- Austin · 10 mi
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