Reflection Pool & Tiger Walk via Marvin Taylor Exercise Trail
5.3 mi · ▲ 57 ft · 1 hr 48 min
Reflection Pool & Tiger Walk via Marvin Taylor Exercise Trail is a 5.3-mile out-and-back in Hermann Park near University Oaks, TX. The route reaches Reflection Pool at the turnaround, 2.7 miles in. It is mostly level, with 57 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Reflection Pool & Tiger Walk via Marvin Taylor Exercise Trail
5.3 mi · ▲ 57 ft · 1 hr 48 min
Elevation 10–47 ft
Out & Back · Hermann Park
Trailhead: 29.72272, -95.35716
Weather Sep 22: sunrise 7:10 AM · sunset 7:21 PM
Transit-accessible: TSU/UH Athletics District stop 566 m from the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftBear right, heading W.
- 50 ftBear left onto Tiger Walk, heading W.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Columbia Tap Rail Trail, heading SW.
- 0.7 miTurn right onto Brays Bayou Greenway, heading SW.
- 0.7 miTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 200 ftBear right, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Marvin Taylor Exercise Trail, heading N.
- 250 ftBear left, heading W.
- 50 ftBear right, heading W.
- 150 ftBear right, heading W.
- 0.6 miReach Reflection Pool, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading N.
- 150 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 350 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Brays Bayou Greenway, heading NE.
- 0.7 miTurn left onto Columbia Tap Rail Trail, heading NE.
- 0.7 miTurn right onto Tiger Walk, heading NE.
- 0.4 miBear right, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 150 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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Good to know
- Transit-accessible: TSU/UH Athletics District stop 566 m from the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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- Brays Bayou Greenway & Tiger Walk 10.7 mi · ▲ 111 ft
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- Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Reflecting Pool–Mecom Rockwell Colonnade, 3 lakes 5.1 mi · ▲ 57 ft
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