Laurel Park
Laurel Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 393 m. Bald Knob stands 1,232 m to the east, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Elephant Mountain, a peak 0.6 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 1.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 393 m
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 16.9 mi off the Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Buena Vista Overlook · 2 mi
- House Mountain Overlook · 2 mi
- Chimney Rock Mountain Overlook · 3 mi
- White's Gap Overlook · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Elephant Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Garnet Peak: 0.7 mi
- Silver Peak: 1.0 mi
- Paxton Peak: 1.5 mi
- Chimney Rock Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Otto Cline Powell monument: 5.0 mi
- Colonel Claudius Crozet: 6.5 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 6.5 mi
- VMI World War II Memorial: 6.5 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 6.5 mi
- Penny Park: 0.6 mi
- Glen Maury Park: 1.2 mi
- Ben Salem Wayside: 3.1 mi
- M. Leroy Richardson Park: 6.2 mi
- Lexington City Pool: 6.3 mi
- Knight Statue: 0.8 mi
- Peristyle: 0.8 mi
- George Washington: 6.5 mi
- The Cannonball: 6.6 mi
- George C. Marshall: 6.6 mi
- Virginia Military Institute Museum: 6.5 mi
- Rockbridge Historical Society: 6.5 mi
- Stonewall Jackson House: 6.6 mi
- George C Marshall Research Foundation Library: 6.7 mi
- Monacan Ancestral Museum: 16.1 mi
- Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson: 6.6 mi
- Yankee Horse Ridge: 10.4 mi
- Dinosaur Kingdom II: 12.1 mi
- Devils Marbleyard: 12.6 mi
- Caverns at Natural Bridge: 12.8 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 7.2 mi
- Wiggins Spring: 7.8 mi
- Hog Camp Gap Spring: 8.5 mi
- Lovingston Springs: 10.5 mi
- Marble Spring: 12.3 mi
- HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden: 21.2 mi
- Randolph College Organic Garden: 22.2 mi
- Greenhouse Area: 22.9 mi
- Rain Garden: 23.4 mi
- Daniel's Hill Garden: 23.6 mi
- Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 8.5 mi
- Brushy Hills Preserve: 8.9 mi
- Lake Robertson: 15.5 mi
- Goshen-Little North Mountain Wildlife Management Area: 16.3 mi
- Carry Nature Sanctuary: 19.0 mi
- Panther Falls: 3.3 mi
- Lace Falls: 13.4 mi
- Apple Orchard Falls: 18.2 mi
- St. Mary's Falls: 18.7 mi
- White Rock Falls: 19.6 mi
- Lovers Leap: 7.8 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 19.5 mi
- Fairfield Safety Rest Area: 10.1 mi
- Cascade Falls Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
- Chris Lantos Waterfront: 17.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.5 miles of Laurel Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | E 85° | 1,232 m | 6.5 mi |
| Cole Mountain | E 80° | 1,197 m | 7.6 mi |
| Floyds Mountain | E 82° | 1,061 m | 8.4 mi |
| Little Rocky Mountain | E 86° | 1,034 m | 8.3 mi |
| Buck Mountain | E 81° | 1,025 m | 5.7 mi |
| Bluff Mountain | S 183° | 1,015 m | 4.9 mi |
| Big Rocky Row | SSW 202° | 910 m | 7.2 mi |
| Silas Knob | S 191° | 904 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 20:04 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 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 | 34 | 37 | 44 | 54 | 63 | 71 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lexington, 6 mi away.
- autumn olive11 obs
- multiflora rose10 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle9 obs
- bird's-eye speedwell9 obs
- mock strawberry9 obs
- River Cooter7 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail7 obs
- Common Green June Beetle7 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/672204676
Day trips start here
- Lynchburg · 25 mi
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