Mount Royal Park
Mount Royal Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 105 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the northwest, 2.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Pimmit Hills Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike passes 3.3 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 105 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Fairfax County Park Authority
How to reach it
- 3.3 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 3.8 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 4.6 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 13.0 mi off the Booth's Escape
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Pimmit Hills Park: 0.4 mi
- Griffith Park: 0.5 mi
- Tysons Pimmit Park: 0.7 mi
- Pimmit View Park: 0.8 mi
- Haycock-Longfellow Park: 0.9 mi
- Mustang Statue: 0.5 mi
- Up snd Down: 2.0 mi
- HHHVP: 3.5 mi
- Memory Bricks: 3.5 mi
- The Family: 3.5 mi
- Olney Park: 0.7 mi
- Composer's Cottage Picnic Area: 4.4 mi
- Filene Center Lawns: 4.5 mi
- Carderock, Chesapeake & Ohio National Historic Park: 4.7 mi
- Fletcher's Cove: 5.0 mi
- Brick from Auschwitz: Commemorative Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Mount Hope: 1.4 mi
- Carol DeLong: 1.9 mi
- Tinner Hill Monument: 1.9 mi
- Zig Zag Monument: 1.9 mi
- Powhatan Hills Park: 1.6 mi
- Franklin Woods Park: 1.7 mi
- Marie Butler Leven Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Ashgrove Historic Site Park: 3.6 mi
- Round Tree Park: 3.7 mi
- Selfie Wrld: 1.7 mi
- Freeman Store & Museum: 3.9 mi
- Hunter House at Nottoway Park: 4.6 mi
- James I. Mayer Center for Environmental Education: 4.6 mi
- Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington: 5.1 mi
- Capital One Sculpture Garden: 1.8 mi
- Butterfly Sanctuary: 2.7 mi
- Food/Flower Garden: 3.5 mi
- Rain Garden: 3.6 mi
- Ornamental Tree Garden: 3.7 mi
- Barco Rebar Rehearsal Space: 2.1 mi
- Eden Center: 2.9 mi
- Washington & Old Dominion Caboose: 3.9 mi
- Freeman House Historic Site: 3.9 mi
- The Caboose: 3.9 mi
- Mount Daniel: 0.7 mi
- Prout Hill: 1.6 mi
- Minor's Hill: 1.8 mi
- Gantt Hill: 2.6 mi
- Freedom Hill: 3.0 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 4.6 mi
- Fishing Shore: 5.2 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 5.9 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 6.0 mi
- Beaver Landing: 21.7 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 12.6 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 13.7 mi
- Indian Head: 20.7 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 22.2 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 22.2 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 4.4 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 4.5 mi
- Great Falls: 7.2 mi
- Coe Creek: 15.3 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 18.8 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 9.6 mi
- Silver Spring: 10.6 mi
- Takoma Spring: 11.2 mi
- Indian Springs: 17.4 mi
- Sandy Spring: 18.7 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 17.5 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 17.5 mi
- Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 22.3 mi
- Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Royal Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | NW 304° | 156 m | 2.6 mi |
| Hunting Hill | N 359° | 156 m | 12.5 mi |
| Black Hill | NNW 344° | 148 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mount Daniel | SE 130° | 144 m | 0.7 mi |
| Minor's Hill | E 92° | 140 m | 1.8 mi |
| Freedom Hill | WNW 296° | 140 m | 3.0 mi |
| Prout Hill | S 180° | 137 m | 1.6 mi |
| Upton Hill | SE 130° | 125 m | 3.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 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 | 34 | 37 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dalecarlia Rsvr, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly161 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee152 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel120 obs
- Western Honey Bee116 obs
- Northern Cardinal114 obs
- American Robin110 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle107 obs
- House Sparrow106 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/153130273
Day trips start here
- Falls Church · 2 mi
- McLean · 2 mi
- Tysons · 2 mi
- Arlington (Virginia)/Far North · 3 mi
- Vienna · 4 mi
- Annandale · 5 mi
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