We've been saying that to visitors, and I've been wondering what that really means. Sure, 216 is a big number, especially if you compare it to today's typical homestead size. I lived on 2.5 acres and it felt like that decimal moved to the right when I had to mow it.
But just how big is 216? Do people know enough to put it in some context? I sure don't.
So, to put that in some perspective -
For a schoolkid - A football field is about 1.32 acres (including endzones)- so BL is about 163 football fields. For a local urban adult - Zilker Park is 351 acres (265 football fields).
It strikes me that both of those examples are flat. I'm wondering if acres are measured by how the crow flies, or if it takes into account the topography of the land. [Googleing]
Ah.. acres are measured by how the crow flies. So there's actually much more land to traverse in BL's 216, than a flat urban park's 216. (I probably could have figured that out - if I thought about why they can use lasers to simply compute the straight line distance between the laser beam and receiver, ignoring all the hills and vales in between.)
Here's some comparisons of other hilly Preserves:
For a local park adult - Wild Basin Preserve is 227 acres (172 football fields).
For a regional park adult - Balcones Canyonlands Preserve is 23,000 acres (17,424 football fields).
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