Morningside Park
Morningside Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 292 m. Poor Mountain stands 1,141 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Southeast Recreation Center, a park 0.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 292 m
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Mill Mountain Star Overlook · 1 mi
- Mill Mountain Overlook · 1 mi
- Roanoke River Overlook · 3 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Southeast Recreation Center: 0.4 mi
- Belmont Park: 0.4 mi
- Golden Park: 0.7 mi
- Piedmont Park: 0.7 mi
- Mill Mountain Park: 1.0 mi
- Mill Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Stone Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Chestnut Ridge: 2.9 mi
- Roanoke Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Round Hill: 3.5 mi
- JB Fishburn Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Hunter Viaduct: 1.3 mi
- Roanoke City Market: 1.4 mi
- Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Depot: 1.6 mi
- Oscar Micheaux: 1.6 mi
- Roanoke Pinball Museum: 1.4 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 1.4 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 1.4 mi
- O. Winston Link Museum: 1.4 mi
- Virginia Museum of Transportation: 1.8 mi
- Explore Park: 4.3 mi
- Read Mountain Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Happy Hollow Gardens Park: 8.4 mi
- Carvins Cove: 9.8 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 13.7 mi
- Roanoke Star: 0.8 mi
- Jupiter Missile: 1.6 mi
- Norfolk Southern 8661: 1.6 mi
- Pacabella Farm Alpacas & Boutique: 10.3 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 14.0 mi
- Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Garden: 1.2 mi
- George Washington Carver Community Garden: 2.0 mi
- Mountain View Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- Beale Garden: 6.8 mi
- Community Garden: 7.1 mi
- Henrietta Lacks: 1.6 mi
- Roanoke Firefighter statue: 1.7 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 2.5 mi
- Merrill Gainer Statue: 3.3 mi
- The Rock: 7.8 mi
- Tinker Cliffs: 13.1 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 15.5 mi
- Lovers Leap: 21.1 mi
- Troutville Safety Rest Area: 15.8 mi
- Virginia Rest Area Mile 158 South (I-81): 15.8 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 16.7 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 17.3 mi
- Camp Creek: 17.3 mi
- Falling Water Cascades: 24.0 mi
- Spring Well #25: 20.4 mi
- Big Spring: 21.9 mi
- Howrytown: 12.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.6 miles of Morningside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poor Mountain | WSW 252° | 1,141 m | 13.4 mi |
| Cahas Mountain | SSW 208° | 1,083 m | 11.0 mi |
| Fort Lewis Mountain | WNW 285° | 998 m | 13.6 mi |
| Bent Mountain | SW 233° | 975 m | 12.6 mi |
| McAfee Knob | NW 326° | 974 m | 11.3 mi |
| Bull Run Knob | SW 233° | 972 m | 12.6 mi |
| Masons Knob | SW 226° | 961 m | 8.4 mi |
| Hemppatch Mountain | SW 235° | 935 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 06:00 | 20:05 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:26 | 17:06 |
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 | 38 | 41 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roanoke-blacksburg Rgnl AP, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly85 obs
- Least Sandpiper56 obs
- Solitary Sandpiper48 obs
- Mallard36 obs
- American Robin36 obs
- Monarch35 obs
- Annual Honesty35 obs
- Italian arum34 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/44819167
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 1 mi
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