Ray Roberts Lake State Park - Pecan Creek Unit
Ray Roberts Lake State Park - Pecan Creek Unit is a park in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 198 m. Mount Olive stands 255 m to the north-northeast, 3.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Tyson Cemetery, a historic site 2.4 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 4.9 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Tyson Cemetery: 2.4 mi
- Mountain Springs School: 5.0 mi
- Valley View: 5.3 mi
- Sanger and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: 6.0 mi
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church: 6.1 mi
- Ring-Tailed Lemur: 13.4 mi
- Leopard Tortoise: 13.4 mi
- African Spurred Tortoise: 13.4 mi
- Red Ruffed Lemur: 13.4 mi
- White-Handed Gibbon: 13.4 mi
- Confederate Soldier Statue: 13.6 mi
- Armed Forces memorial: 13.6 mi
- Butterfield Stagecoach statue: 13.6 mi
- November Devil: 15.0 mi
- Shadow Garden: 15.2 mi
- Mount Olive: 3.1 mi
- Terrapin Hill: 8.4 mi
- Blue Mound: 12.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 18.0 mi
- Pilot Knob: 20.0 mi
- Explorium: 12.8 mi
- Morton Museum of Cooke County: 13.5 mi
- Sante Fe Depot Museum: 13.6 mi
- Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection Museum: 14.0 mi
- Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum: 14.9 mi
- Shiloh Field Community Garden: 13.8 mi
- Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary: 13.9 mi
- Bill Crouch Garden: 15.1 mi
- Ken Dickson Environmental Learning Area: 15.1 mi
- Buisness Leadership Building (BLB) Zen garden: 15.5 mi
- Post Oak Beach: 3.7 mi
- Little Elm Beach: 20.8 mi
- Texas Travel Information Center at Gainesville: 18.5 mi
- Oklahoma Welcome Center: 23.7 mi
- Shayhan Point: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ray Roberts Lake State Park - Pecan Creek Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Olive | NNE 30° | 255 m | 3.1 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SSW 196° | 253 m | 20.0 mi |
| Blue Mound | SSW 207° | 244 m | 12.3 mi |
| Long Point | SSW 197° | 234 m | 21.1 mi |
| Terrapin Hill | N 350° | 232 m | 8.4 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 195° | 231 m | 21.5 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSW 195° | 207 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:08 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:05 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 48 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 81 | 85 | 85 | 77 | 66 | 55 | 46 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pilot Point ISL DU BOI, 7 mi away.
- buttonbush11 obs
- American germander9 obs
- Dakota mock vervain8 obs
- American water-willow7 obs
- green antelopehorns7 obs
- western horsenettle7 obs
- American basketflower7 obs
- American pokeweed6 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.
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