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Food/Flower Garden

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Food/Flower Garden from directly overhead

Food/Flower Garden is a garden in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 93 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the north, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Woodburn School Site Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike passes 6.8 miles off. 46 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Getting there

How to reach it

Coordinates38.85702, -77.21571

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • The Pines: 0.8 mi
  • St. Francis: 1.8 mi
  • Pieta: 1.8 mi
  • St. Francis of Assisi: 2.0 mi
  • The Cannon: 2.1 mi
Nature reserves
Attractions
Artworks
Museums
Gardens
  • Vienna Elementery Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Vienna Elementery Garden: 4.0 mi
  • Reevesland Learning Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Ornamental Tree Garden: 4.6 mi
  • BonAir Rose Garden: 4.6 mi
Picnic sites
  • Olney Park: 4.2 mi
  • Composer's Cottage Picnic Area: 6.0 mi
  • Filene Center Lawns: 6.1 mi
  • Area 3: 6.3 mi
  • Area 5: 6.3 mi
Peaks: 46
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 7.4 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 8.7 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 8.7 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 18.2 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Scott's Run Falls: 7.7 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 7.8 mi
  • Great Falls: 9.9 mi
  • Coe Creek: 12.0 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 18.9 mi
Springs: 5
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 12.8 mi
  • Silver Spring: 13.6 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 13.9 mi
  • Indian Springs: 19.9 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 22.2 mi
Cliffs: 4
Rest areas: 4
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 15.3 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 15.4 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 18.8 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 18.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Food/Flower Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillN 349°156 m4.8 mi
Hunting HillN 3°156 m15.8 mi
Black HillN 349°148 m23.2 mi
Mount DanielNNE 32°144 m3.3 mi
Minor's HillNE 44°140 m4.4 mi
Freedom HillNNW 342°140 m4.8 mi
Prout HillNE 37°137 m2.1 mi
Upton HillENE 72°125 m3.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4519:5820:38
September equinox06:5718:3319:08
December solstice07:2516:0916:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333542536270757467554537
Precip in3.32.63.83.44.34.14.33.54.23.53.13.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vienna, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Northern Cardinal251 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel178 obs
  • Downy Woodpecker153 obs
  • House Finch149 obs
  • House Sparrow128 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle120 obs
  • American Robin116 obs
  • Mourning Dove105 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1432787774

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