Happy Creek Park
Happy Creek Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 189 m. Hogback Mountain stands 1,056 m to the south-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Millenium Sundial, a historic site 0.8 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 0.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 189 m
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 24.6 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
- 28.4 mi off the Washington Heritage Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Shenandoah Valley Overlook · 1 mi
- No Name Overlook · 3 mi
- Signal Knob Overlook · 4 mi
- Gooney Run Overlook · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bowman Park: 0.9 mi
- Eastham Park: 1.3 mi
- Front Royal Park: 1.3 mi
- Ed Stump Playground: 1.4 mi
- Skyline Soccerplex: 1.5 mi
- Edge Hill: 2.2 mi
- Green Hill: 2.3 mi
- Catlett Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Guard Hill: 3.6 mi
- Dickey Hill: 3.7 mi
- Millenium Sundial: 0.8 mi
- Norfolk & Southern Railway Co. Caboose: 0.8 mi
- Snead Farm: 3.5 mi
- 8th Vermont Monument: 9.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 9.7 mi
- Virginia Beer Museum: 0.9 mi
- Warren Rifles Confederate Museum: 1.0 mi
- Strasburg Museum: 10.7 mi
- Hupp's Hill Museum: 10.9 mi
- Newtown Hitory Center: 12.3 mi
- Skyline Caverns: 1.7 mi
- Darkwood Manor: 22.2 mi
- Luray Train Depot: 22.3 mi
- The Garden Maze: 23.1 mi
- Luray Caverns: 23.2 mi
- "Stonewall" Jackson: 0.9 mi
- Warrior Statue: 11.7 mi
- The Peacemakers: 18.0 mi
- Bird In Flight: 18.1 mi
- A Tasteful 1 Apple Statue: 18.2 mi
- Rock Spring: 10.4 mi
- Yellow Rose Spring: 11.5 mi
- Vaucluse Spring: 11.5 mi
- Chalybeate Spring: 12.1 mi
- Town Spring: 19.5 mi
- Lands Run Falls: 5.4 mi
- Miller Falls: 8.7 mi
- Greasy Falls: 10.1 mi
- Overall Run Falls: 10.3 mi
- Upper Overall Run Falls: 10.3 mi
- Herb Garden: 12.8 mi
- Community Garden: 12.8 mi
- Paris Vegetable Garden: 14.4 mi
- W.O. Riley Park Garden: 17.7 mi
- Senior Garden: 22.4 mi
- Eastham Park Trail and Front Royal Boat Landing: 1.3 mi
- Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: 3.7 mi
- Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: 4.2 mi
- Appalachian Trail Corridor: 15.3 mi
- Water Street Nature Reserve: 17.6 mi
- Dickey Ridge Picnic Grounds: 2.8 mi
- Pinnacles picnic ground: 21.2 mi
- Pavilian: 21.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 23.1 mi
- Picnic Area: 23.1 mi
- Lovers Leap: 11.1 mi
- Rattlesnake Point: 12.1 mi
- Three High Heads: 19.7 mi
- Dog Cliff: 19.8 mi
- River Access: 22.5 mi
- River Access: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.4 miles of Happy Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hogback Mountain | SSW 205° | 1,056 m | 11.0 mi |
| North Marshall | S 185° | 1,024 m | 9.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf | SSW 208° | 985 m | 11.9 mi |
| South Marshall | S 191° | 979 m | 9.4 mi |
| Little Hogback Mountain | SSW 201° | 940 m | 10.9 mi |
| The Peak | S 175° | 889 m | 10.1 mi |
| Compton Peak | S 174° | 887 m | 6.1 mi |
| Carson Mountain | S 171° | 780 m | 5.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:50 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:02 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:36 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:13 | 16:55 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Front Royal, under a mile away.
- American Robin70 obs
- Virginia bluebells66 obs
- White-tailed Deer64 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly61 obs
- Eastern Cottontail47 obs
- box elder44 obs
- red deadnettle44 obs
- Groundhog39 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/545502176
Day trips start here
- Middleburg · 25 mi
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