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Captains Quarters Nature Center And Park

Captains Quarters Nature Center And Park from directly overhead

Captains Quarters Nature Center And Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Mount Trashmore stands 18 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Camel, a artwork 0.8 miles away. Colonial Parkway passes 22 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
0 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.96389, -76.27417

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Camel: 0.8 mi
  • OV Amusement Park Mermaid: 1.5 mi
  • Sunburst: 1.5 mi
  • Blue Mirror Mermaid: 1.5 mi
  • Storyteller: 4.9 mi
Parks
  • Ely Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
  • Maple Avenue Park: 1.4 mi
  • Ocean View Beach Park: 1.4 mi
  • Community Beach Park: 1.9 mi
  • Breezy Point Park: 2.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Fort Wool: 2.2 mi
  • Iowa: 2.2 mi
  • USS IOWA Memorial: 2.2 mi
  • USS Cole Memorial: 2.3 mi
  • USS Cole Memorial Park: 2.3 mi
Gardens: 44
  • Living Legacy Grove: 5.5 mi
  • Norfolk Botanical Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Buckroe Community Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Apiary Bee Hives: 5.8 mi
  • African Village Garden: 5.8 mi
Attractions: 21
Beaches: 15
Nature reserves: 14
Cliffs: 7
Peaks: 5
  • Mount Trashmore: 12.4 mi
  • Encore Hill: 12.6 mi
  • White Hill: 14.4 mi
  • The Isaacs: 19.4 mi
  • Knob Hill: 20.0 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Shelter #1: 13.0 mi
  • Picnic Shelter #3: 13.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Captains Quarters Nature Center And Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TrashmoreSE 138°18 m12.4 mi
White HillESE 107°10 m14.4 mi
Knob HillSW 234°8 m20.0 mi
The IsaacsENE 64°2 m19.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4319:17
June solstice05:4719:5020:29
September equinox06:5418:3019:04
December solstice07:1516:1216:53

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424450606876817974645346
Precip in2.92.53.53.33.54.65.25.35.13.63.12.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk NAS, 2 mi away.

  • Ring-billed Gull36 obs
  • Great Black-backed Gull27 obs
  • Brown Pelican22 obs
  • Royal Tern22 obs
  • American Herring Gull22 obs
  • Common Tern20 obs
  • Red Beard Sponge19 obs
  • American trumpet vine18 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/356605391

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