Pecan Springs School Park
Pecan Springs School Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 186 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt, a park 0.5 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 8.5 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 186 m
How to reach it
- 8.5 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 18.3 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 22.4 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt: 0.5 mi
- Dottie Jordan Park: 0.8 mi
- Andrews School Park: 1.0 mi
- Burr Field: 1.1 mi
- Bartholomew District Park: 1.1 mi
- Site of Pecan Springs School: 0.8 mi
- Annie Webb Blanton: 0.9 mi
- Fort Colorado Historical Marker: 1.2 mi
- Site of Fort Colorado: 1.2 mi
- First Colored Baptist Church: 1.3 mi
- Ocho: 1.2 mi
- Arachnophilia: 1.7 mi
- Nessy: 1.8 mi
- Pollen Grain: 1.9 mi
- Wigwam: 1.9 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 1.9 mi
- Monoculture: 1.9 mi
- Patterson Park Community Garden: 2.0 mi
- Asian American Resource Center Intergenerational Garden: 2.5 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 3.5 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 4.1 mi
- Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve: 4.4 mi
- The Thinkery: 1.8 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 3.0 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 3.0 mi
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum: 3.4 mi
- Texas Memorial Museum: 3.5 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 4.9 mi
- Bald Knob: 5.5 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 5.9 mi
- Mount Barker: 6.0 mi
- Mount Lucas: 6.1 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 3.9 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 4.2 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 5.1 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 5.1 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 5.2 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 7.8 mi
- Hidden Falls: 7.9 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 8.0 mi
- Link Falls: 8.1 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 8.4 mi
- Seiders Spring: 4.3 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 6.1 mi
- Eliza Spring: 6.2 mi
- Shady Spring: 6.5 mi
- Queen's Bath: 15.0 mi
- New Sweden: 12.1 mi
- McDuff: 13.8 mi
- Palm Valley: 16.9 mi
- Goforth: 20.7 mi
- Lytton Springs: 21.0 mi
- Stone picnic table: 8.4 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 9.7 mi
- The Learning Tree: 12.3 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
- Bird Bluff: 4.2 mi
- Seismic Wall: 8.4 mi
- Fern Bluff: 15.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pecan Springs School Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 270° | 433 m | 24.5 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 268° | 364 m | 18.9 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 275° | 360 m | 17.9 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 245° | 353 m | 18.4 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 314° | 346 m | 23.8 mi |
| Hamilton Hill | NW 321° | 345 m | 23.9 mi |
| Jess Maynard Hill | NW 321° | 343 m | 22.2 mi |
| Jollyville Plateau | WNW 302° | 340 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 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 | 17:35 |
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 | 52 | 56 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 86 | 87 | 81 | 72 | 61 | 54 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin-camp Mabry, 5 mi away.
- Monarch361 obs
- Zizotes milkweed350 obs
- Mallard318 obs
- Muscovy Duck301 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle292 obs
- Glassy-winged Sharpshooter255 obs
- Ring-necked Duck249 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle242 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/1278688405
Day trips start here
- Austin · 5 mi
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