Fairview Heights Recreation Center
Fairview Heights Recreation Center is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 256 m. Terrapin Mountain stands 1,062 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairview Center Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Lee's Retreat passes 17 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 256 m
How to reach it
- 17.3 mi off the Lee's Retreat
- 16.9 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Terrapin Mountain Overlook · 21 mi
- Thunder Ridge Overlook · 22 mi
- Apple Orchard Mountain Overlook · 22 mi
- Arnold Valley Overlook · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Younger Park: 0.5 mi
- Jackson Heights Neighborhood Park: 0.8 mi
- Diamond Hill Community Center: 1.7 mi
- City Stadium Complex: 1.7 mi
- Percival's Island Natural Area: 1.9 mi
- Ota Benga: 1.2 mi
- Virginia University of Lynchburg: 1.2 mi
- Richard's Angel: 1.3 mi
- Guggenheimer Circle: 1.4 mi
- Presbyterian Orphanage Children: 1.4 mi
- Candler Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Jack Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Mount Athos: 5.2 mi
- Long Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Galts Mill Mountain: 6.9 mi
- Anne Spencer House: 1.8 mi
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Human Rights: 2.2 mi
- Lynchburg Museum: 2.3 mi
- Amazement Square: 2.5 mi
- Legacy Museum of African American History: 2.5 mi
- Fairview Center Garden: 0.1 mi
- James D. Wright Garden: 1.6 mi
- Diamond Hill Center Garden: 1.7 mi
- Pierce Street Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Haskins Memorial Garden: 2.0 mi
- Hayes Hall Bell: 1.2 mi
- Hayes Monument: 1.2 mi
- LYH LOVES YOU: 2.1 mi
- Diamond Hill: 2.1 mi
- Craddock Terry Shoe: 2.1 mi
- VUL Sign: 1.2 mi
- Horse Drawn Road Grader: 2.3 mi
- Model 1474 Gallion Roller: 2.3 mi
- Point of Honor: 2.7 mi
- Packet Boat Marshall: 4.3 mi
- Hollins Mill Park: 3.1 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 12.6 mi
- Claytor Nature Center: 22.1 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 25.0 mi
- Marble Spring: 21.0 mi
- Hunting Spring: 21.6 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 22.1 mi
- Apple Orchard Falls: 23.5 mi
- Panther Falls: 24.0 mi
- J.H. Phillips Wayside: 5.8 mi
- Wheeler Cliff: 9.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Fairview Heights Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terrapin Mountain | WNW 299° | 1,062 m | 20.1 mi |
| Tobacco Row Mountain | NNW 348° | 876 m | 13.1 mi |
| High Peak | NNW 348° | 876 m | 13.1 mi |
| No Business Mountain | WNW 296° | 837 m | 14.4 mi |
| Rocky Mountain | WNW 300° | 712 m | 13.0 mi |
| Shady Mountain | N 357° | 687 m | 16.4 mi |
| Banks Mountain | NNW 343° | 657 m | 20.1 mi |
| Fleming Mountain | WNW 297° | 645 m | 10.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:02 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:22 | 17:03 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 38 | 45 | 55 | 63 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lynchburg #2, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly13 obs
- Virginia bluebells9 obs
- House Sparrow6 obs
- American Robin5 obs
- Leopard Slug5 obs
- Carolina Wren4 obs
- Northern Cardinal4 obs
- Common Box Turtle4 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/673823251
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 2 mi
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