Pilot Knob
Pilot Knob rises to 217 m in Texas. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Skyline Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 8.4 miles off. 31 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Pilot Knob is the eroded core of an extinct volcano located in Austin, Texas, United States. It is near Austin–Bergstrom International Airport and McKinney Falls State Park.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q7194429, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 217 m
How to reach it
- 8.4 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 19.0 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
- 23.6 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sinkholes · 25 mi
- Wetland Wonders · 25 mi
- Sunset Deck · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Skyline Park: 0.7 mi
- Bryant Park: 0.8 mi
- Falkor’s Crossing: 1.0 mi
- Norman Park: 1.2 mi
- Grand Meadow Neighborhood Park: 2.1 mi
- Pilot Knob: 0.9 mi
- Collins Cemetery: 0.9 mi
- Old Colton Road Crossing: 1.7 mi
- Horse Trainer John Van Hagen's Cabin: 1.9 mi
- Santiago Del Valle Grant: 2.0 mi
- Cathedral of Junk: 5.6 mi
- Good Luck Statue: 5.8 mi
- Reach for Your Dreams: 5.8 mi
- Cenotaphs: 6.2 mi
- Absolute Equality: Unity Tunnel: 6.2 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 5.4 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Hornsby Bend Ecological Research Area: 5.9 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 6.1 mi
- Onion Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 6.2 mi
- Claire Kolodzey Memorial Garden: 5.8 mi
- Peace Garden: 5.8 mi
- Ted Paulissen Memorial Garden: 5.8 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 6.1 mi
- Festival Beach Food Forest: 6.7 mi
- TexPop ATX: 7.3 mi
- Texas State Cemetery Visitor Center: 7.6 mi
- Joseph And Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum: 7.6 mi
- O. Henry Museum: 7.6 mi
- French Legation Museum: 7.6 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 6.2 mi
- Woods Hill: 7.0 mi
- Davis Hill: 8.2 mi
- Mount Larson: 11.6 mi
- Carpenter Hills: 11.8 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 7.3 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 7.4 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 7.6 mi
- Barton Springs Pool: 8.2 mi
- Bear Creek Stables: 8.2 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 2.1 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 2.2 mi
- Twin Falls: 8.8 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 9.9 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 10.7 mi
- Eliza Spring: 8.2 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 9.0 mi
- Seiders Spring: 10.4 mi
- Shady Spring: 16.5 mi
- Kirby Spring: 21.1 mi
- Goforth: 10.7 mi
- Lytton Springs: 12.1 mi
- Polonia: 15.2 mi
- McDuff: 15.3 mi
- New Sweden: 20.8 mi
- Stone picnic table: 2.1 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 6.5 mi
- The Learning Tree: 9.7 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 21.7 mi
- Bird Bluff: 6.0 mi
- Seismic Wall: 8.1 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 19.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pilot Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | WNW 294° | 433 m | 24.6 mi |
| Lone Woman Mountain | WSW 257° | 423 m | 24.5 mi |
| Lone Man Mountain | WSW 256° | 416 m | 23.4 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | W 276° | 406 m | 22.0 mi |
| Chalk Knob | WNW 299° | 364 m | 19.3 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | NW 306° | 360 m | 19.7 mi |
| Signal Hill | W 278° | 353 m | 14.9 mi |
| Jollyville Plateau | NNW 333° | 340 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:31 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 85 | 85 | 79 | 70 | 59 | 52 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin Bergstrom Intl AP, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/4492451110
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- Austin · 8 mi
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