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Palmer Point Park

Palmer Point Park from directly overhead

Palmer Point Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 96 m. Ivy Hill stands 120 m to the west-northwest, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Osage Picnic Shelter, a picnic site 2.2 miles away. Lafayette's Tour passes 13 miles off. 79 named places lie within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
96 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.56309, -78.28598

79 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 52
Museums: 6
Picnic sites: 3
  • Osage Picnic Shelter: 2.2 mi
  • Picnic Area: 2.7 mi
  • Picnic Shelter: 2.8 mi
Historic sites: 3
  • Dr. L. Julian Haywood: 13.4 mi
  • Mecklenburg County Veterans Memorial: 16.0 mi
  • Thyne Institute Memorial: 20.3 mi
Attractions: 2
  • Joseph S. J. Tanner Environmental Education Center: 2.7 mi
  • Solitary Sentinel: 14.3 mi
Gardens: 2
  • J. Stewart and Mary L. Green Wortham Memorial Gardens: 13.6 mi
  • Occoneechee Plantation Terrace Gardens: 14.3 mi
Cliffs: 2
Peaks: 1
Artworks: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Panacea Falls: 23.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Palmer Point Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ivy HillWNW 282°120 m8.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1818:5119:25
June solstice05:5619:5720:36
September equinox07:0218:3819:12
December solstice07:2216:2217:02

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404249596877817973615143
Precip in3.22.53.93.23.54.64.93.84.13.53.03.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — John H Kerr DAM, 3 mi away.

  • Red-throated Loon3 obs
  • Sabine's Gull2 obs
  • Common Loon2 obs
  • Common Box Turtle2 obs
  • Channel Catfish2 obs
  • Brown Booby1 obs
  • Common Tern1 obs
  • Forster's Tern1 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/675108669

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