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Potomack Lakes Sportsplex

Potomack Lakes Sportsplex from directly overhead

Potomack Lakes Sportsplex is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 62 m. Short Hill Mountain stands 441 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Algonkian Regional Park, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 1.9 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
62 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates39.05327, -77.37903

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Sugarland Run Trail Park: 0.7 mi
  • Sugarland Run Trail Park: 0.9 mi
  • Sugarland Run Trail Park: 1.0 mi
  • Sugarland Run Trail Park: 1.2 mi
  • Sugarland Trail Park: 1.3 mi
Gardens
  • Vermont Maple Garden: 2.1 mi
  • butterfly garden: 6.4 mi
  • butterfly Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Poolesville Community Garden: 6.8 mi
  • The Farm at Halley Rise: 7.3 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Peaks
Museums
Artworks
Picnic sites
  • Smiths Switch Station: 4.7 mi
  • Picnic area A: 7.0 mi
  • Picnic area B: 7.0 mi
  • Picnic area C: 7.0 mi
  • Picnic area D: 7.0 mi
Springs: 12
  • Kanawha Spring: 17.0 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Silver Spring: 19.3 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 20.1 mi
  • White Rock Spring: 20.6 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Great Falls: 7.8 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 9.4 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 11.5 mi
  • Coe Creek: 22.5 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Sycamore Beach: 8.9 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 18.1 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 18.9 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 18.0 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 18.0 mi
  • Truck Rest Area: 23.9 mi
Cliffs: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.4 miles of Potomack Lakes Sportsplex. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Short Hill MountainNW 310°441 m23.0 mi
Signal MountainSW 236°413 m21.1 mi
High Point MountainSW 233°397 m22.5 mi
Sugarloaf MountainN 357°387 m14.5 mi
White RockWSW 236°387 m21.0 mi
Chestnut PeakSW 235°374 m20.0 mi
Purcell KnobNW 306°368 m24.4 mi
Waterford PeakNW 311°361 m13.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4619:22
June solstice05:4519:5920:39
September equinox06:5818:3319:08
December solstice07:2616:0916:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333643556473777669574637
Precip in3.12.63.83.54.94.64.13.74.14.03.23.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — WFO Sterling, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Zebra Swallowtail146 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail137 obs
  • common pawpaw128 obs
  • Monarch127 obs
  • White-tailed Deer123 obs
  • Great Blue Heron108 obs
  • Eastern Pondhawk95 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty89 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/508726920

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