Idylwood Park
Idylwood Park is a park in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 132 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the north-northwest, 2.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Shreve Hill Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike passes 4.5 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Fairfax County Park Authority
How to reach it
- 4.5 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 5.2 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 5.7 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 13.9 mi off the Booth's Escape
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Shreve Hill Playground: 0.4 mi
- Ruckstuhl Park: 0.5 mi
- Dunn Loring Fairgounds: 0.5 mi
- Dunn Loring Park: 0.8 mi
- Lee Landing Park: 0.9 mi
- Mustang Statue: 1.2 mi
- Up snd Down: 2.7 mi
- HHHVP: 4.5 mi
- Memory Bricks: 4.5 mi
- The Family: 4.6 mi
- Mount Hope: 1.7 mi
- Tinner Hill Monument: 2.1 mi
- Carol DeLong: 2.1 mi
- Zig Zag Monument: 2.1 mi
- Brick from Auschwitz: Commemorative Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Selfie Wrld: 1.9 mi
- Freeman Store & Museum: 2.9 mi
- Hunter House at Nottoway Park: 3.3 mi
- Fairfax Museum and Visitors Center: 5.7 mi
- James I. Mayer Center for Environmental Education: 5.8 mi
- Olney Park: 1.9 mi
- Composer's Cottage Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
- Filene Center Lawns: 4.2 mi
- Carderock, Chesapeake & Ohio National Historic Park: 5.6 mi
- Fletcher's Cove: 6.2 mi
- Capital One Sculpture Garden: 2.3 mi
- Food/Flower Garden: 2.4 mi
- Vienna Elementery Garden: 2.7 mi
- Vienna Elementery Garden: 2.8 mi
- Butterfly Sanctuary: 3.8 mi
- Barco Rebar Rehearsal Space: 2.3 mi
- Freeman House Historic Site: 2.9 mi
- The Caboose: 3.0 mi
- Eden Center: 3.4 mi
- Wolf Trap National Park West Lot: 4.4 mi
- Powhatan Hills Park: 2.9 mi
- Round Tree Park: 3.0 mi
- Franklin Woods Park: 3.1 mi
- Ashgrove Historic Site Park: 3.4 mi
- Marie Butler Leven Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Prout Hill: 1.3 mi
- Mount Daniel: 1.7 mi
- Gantt Hill: 2.6 mi
- Freedom Hill: 2.7 mi
- Minor's Hill: 3.0 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 4.6 mi
- Fishing Shore: 6.4 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 6.4 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 6.4 mi
- Beaver Landing: 20.5 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 12.8 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Indian Head: 19.9 mi
- Possum Nose: 23.3 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 23.4 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 5.3 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 5.4 mi
- Great Falls: 7.7 mi
- Coe Creek: 13.9 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 18.1 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 11.0 mi
- Silver Spring: 12.0 mi
- Takoma Spring: 12.5 mi
- Indian Springs: 18.7 mi
- Sandy Spring: 20.0 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 16.2 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 16.2 mi
- Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 21.1 mi
- Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Idylwood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | NNW 335° | 156 m | 2.6 mi |
| Hunting Hill | N 3° | 156 m | 13.4 mi |
| Black Hill | NNW 347° | 148 m | 21.0 mi |
| Mount Daniel | ENE 75° | 144 m | 1.7 mi |
| Freedom Hill | NW 323° | 140 m | 2.7 mi |
| Minor's Hill | ENE 74° | 140 m | 3.0 mi |
| Prout Hill | ESE 123° | 137 m | 1.3 mi |
| Upton Hill | ESE 108° | 125 m | 3.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:45 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:09 | 16:51 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 42 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vienna, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly128 obs
- House Sparrow103 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle98 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee93 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel92 obs
- Northern Cardinal91 obs
- Western Honey Bee90 obs
- Monarch89 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/147416606
Day trips start here
- Falls Church · 2 mi
- Tysons · 2 mi
- Vienna · 3 mi
- Annandale · 4 mi
- Arlington (Virginia)/Far North · 4 mi
- McLean · 4 mi
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