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Greenway Heights Park

Greenway Heights Park from directly overhead

Greenway Heights Park is a park in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 94 m. Sugarloaf Mountain stands 387 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Old Dominion School Site, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike runs past it. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates38.96066, -77.23230

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Alfred Odrick Homesite Park: 1.7 mi
  • McLean Hamlet Park: 1.8 mi
  • Woodrock Terrace Park: 1.8 mi
  • Woodrock Playground Park: 1.9 mi
  • Falstaff Park: 2.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Burling Defenders: 1.7 mi
  • Mather Gorge: 2.4 mi
  • Mather Gorge marker: 2.4 mi
  • Ruins of Worker's Houses for Nearby Quarries: 4.2 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 4.8 mi
Picnic sites
Attractions
  • Lock 15: 2.1 mi
  • Lock 16: 2.3 mi
  • Maryland Mine: 2.4 mi
  • Wolf Trap National Park West Lot: 2.4 mi
  • Lock 18: 2.7 mi
Gardens
  • Capital One Sculpture Garden: 2.7 mi
  • White Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Entry Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Fred Packard Grove: 3.1 mi
  • Terrace Garden: 3.1 mi
Museums
Artworks
  • A-12 Oxcart: 4.6 mi
  • Kryptos: 4.7 mi
  • Mustang Statue: 4.9 mi
  • Potomac River Water Filtration Plant: 5.5 mi
  • sculpture garden: 5.9 mi
Peaks: 51
Beaches: 6
  • Purplehorse Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 8.0 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 24.7 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Scott's Run Falls: 1.7 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Great Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 16.0 mi
  • Coe Creek: 17.6 mi
Springs: 5
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 9.4 mi
  • Silver Spring: 11.1 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 12.2 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 16.8 mi
  • Indian Springs: 18.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 17.5 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 17.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Greenway Heights Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugarloaf MountainNNW 338°387 m22.6 mi
Chestnut PeakWSW 258°374 m24.7 mi
Waterford PeakNW 310°361 m24.0 mi
Hogback MountainWNW 295°187 m22.2 mi
Steptoe HillWNW 283°176 m24.5 mi
Gantt HillS 181°156 m2.4 mi
Hunting HillNNE 12°156 m8.8 mi
Black HillNNW 347°148 m16.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4419:5920:39
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, 6 mi away.

  • Virginia Springbeauty298 obs
  • Great Blue Heron295 obs
  • Virginia bluebells272 obs
  • common pawpaw245 obs
  • Virginia saxifrage219 obs
  • star chickweed209 obs
  • blue phlox207 obs
  • Fowler's Toad202 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 way/582839424

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