Gosnolds Hope Park
Gosnolds Hope Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Mount Trashmore stands 18 m to the southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Friendship Island, a park 0.6 miles away. Colonial Parkway passes 14 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 14.3 mi off the Colonial Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Friendship Island: 0.6 mi
- Eagle Park: 1.5 mi
- Ridgway Bark Park: 2.1 mi
- Hampton Soccer Park: 2.2 mi
- Grunland Park: 2.7 mi
- General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon: 1.2 mi
- USS Monitor: 8.7 mi
- F/A-18: 10.6 mi
- USS Norfolk Bell: 15.7 mi
- Archway: 16.5 mi
- POW/MIA Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Back River Lighthouse Ruins: 3.4 mi
- Booker T. Washington Memorial: 3.6 mi
- Rosa Parks: 3.9 mi
- Battery Anderson-Ruggles: 4.3 mi
- Buckroe Community Garden: 2.7 mi
- Newport News Community Garden: 7.6 mi
- Hampton Roads Garden: 8.9 mi
- Jenny Russell Giving Garden: 10.0 mi
- Living Legacy Grove: 13.6 mi
- Lincoln and Armstrong Shrine: 3.8 mi
- Cast Bronze by M Cleveland: 7.4 mi
- Memory of Green: 7.5 mi
- Reinvented: 7.7 mi
- The Winner: 8.2 mi
- Air Power Park: 2.9 mi
- Hampton History Museum: 3.5 mi
- Virginia Air And Space Center: 3.6 mi
- Hampton University Museum: 3.7 mi
- Casemate Museum: 5.2 mi
- Grandview Natural Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Weyanoke Bird and Wildflower Sanctuary: 14.0 mi
- Mathews County Land Conservancy: 17.4 mi
- Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge: 20.0 mi
- Wildlife Habitat Enhancement: 20.3 mi
- Grandview Beach: 2.8 mi
- Outlook Beach: 4.6 mi
- Huntington Beach: 8.0 mi
- Willoughby Beach: 9.3 mi
- Yorktown Beach: 14.7 mi
- Keeper's House: 5.2 mi
- Old Point Comfort Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
- Old Cape Henry Lighthouse: 20.6 mi
- Cape Henry Lighthouse: 20.6 mi
- Cape Charles Light: 23.6 mi
- Boushs Bluff: 12.1 mi
- Holly Point: 14.5 mi
- York River Cliffs: 15.5 mi
- Butlers Bluff: 20.0 mi
- Mintonville Point: 22.8 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 20.3 mi
- The Isaacs: 20.5 mi
- Encore Hill: 20.6 mi
- White Hill: 20.7 mi
- Knob Hill: 23.4 mi
- Picnic Shelter #1: 18.5 mi
- Picnic Shelter #3: 18.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Gosnolds Hope Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SE 146° | 18 m | 20.3 mi |
| White Hill | SE 125° | 10 m | 20.7 mi |
| Knob Hill | SW 214° | 8 m | 23.4 mi |
| The Isaacs | E 88° | 2 m | 20.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:50 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:12 | 16:52 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 43 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Langley AFB, 1 mi away.
- Mallard18 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron16 obs
- American sweetgum13 obs
- Marsh Periwinkle13 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel12 obs
- Yellow Garden Spider12 obs
- Great Blue Heron11 obs
- groundsel tree11 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/226501720
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