Veterans Park
Veterans Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 162 m. Caddo Peak stands 303 m to the southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Veteran's Park Statue, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 9.2 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Facilities include a performing arts stage, disc golf, playgrounds, practice fields, a mile and a half hike and bike trail, a nature area and both wildscape and xeriscape gardens.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 162 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 9.2 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Veteran's Park Statue: 0.2 mi
- Dalworthington Gardens: 0.6 mi
- Tate Cemetery: 1.5 mi
- General Edward H. Tarrant: 1.9 mi
- Johnson Station Cemetery: 2.3 mi
- Pappy Elkins Park: 0.4 mi
- Gardens Park: 0.5 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 0.8 mi
- Clarence Foster Park: 0.9 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 0.9 mi
- Texas-Oklahoma Kiwanis District Office: 1.4 mi
- Dallas Stadium: 5.3 mi
- Esports Stadium Arlington: 6.1 mi
- Dive Bomber: 6.2 mi
- Das Stuka: 6.2 mi
- Texas State Museum of History: 3.1 mi
- Wellspring on Main: 4.1 mi
- Texas Air Command Museum: 5.1 mi
- National Medal of Honor Museum: 5.9 mi
- Legends of the Game Baseball Museum: 5.9 mi
- Boundless: 4.2 mi
- Dream: 4.2 mi
- Trần Quốc Tuấn: 4.9 mi
- Armadillo: 9.2 mi
- Đài Đức Mẹ: 9.2 mi
- Marti Van Ravenswaay Garden Entrance: 3.9 mi
- Lake Park Neighborhood Entrance: 4.0 mi
- Fish Creek Community Garden: 6.3 mi
- Ruthe Jackson Outdoor Garden: 8.8 mi
- International Friendship Garden: 11.4 mi
- Murray Hill: 4.5 mi
- Poverty Knob: 13.8 mi
- Brushy Mound: 14.9 mi
- Mount Donwell: 14.9 mi
- Turkey Peak: 15.6 mi
- Sheri Capehart Nature Preserve: 4.3 mi
- Crystal Canyon Nature Reserve: 6.4 mi
- Fish Creek Forest Preserve: 9.6 mi
- Cedar Ridge Preserve: 12.6 mi
- Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center: 12.8 mi
- Bluff Overlook: 4.2 mi
- Red Bluff: 9.4 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 12.5 mi
- Inspiration Point: 15.8 mi
- Lone Point: 19.7 mi
- Sowers: 13.4 mi
- La Reunion: 18.3 mi
- Elizabethtown: 23.0 mi
- Lynn Creek Park Beach: 9.2 mi
- Twin Points Beach: 22.3 mi
- Point Nancy Carolyn at Bachman Lake: 20.2 mi
- Picnic Outpost: 20.4 mi
- Hawkins Spring: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Veterans Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo Peak | SW 223° | 303 m | 20.8 mi |
| Brushy Knob | SW 222° | 303 m | 22.8 mi |
| Brushy Mound | SW 226° | 275 m | 14.9 mi |
| Turkey Peak | SW 224° | 266 m | 15.6 mi |
| Blue Mound | NNW 327° | 264 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Donwell | N 357° | 218 m | 14.9 mi |
| Town Common | N 353° | 216.71 m | 20.0 mi |
| Poverty Knob | S 190° | 216 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 20:04 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:50 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 51 | 59 | 66 | 74 | 82 | 85 | 86 | 79 | 68 | 57 | 49 |
| Precip in | 2.3 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Arlington Muni AP, 5 mi away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel196 obs
- Mallard171 obs
- Green Anole166 obs
- Northern Cardinal157 obs
- Western Honey Bee150 obs
- Gulf Fritillary143 obs
- Bitterweed142 obs
- post oak132 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/477217233
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