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Ranger Road Park

Ranger Road Park from directly overhead

Ranger Road Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 93 m. Signal Mountain stands 413 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Draper Drive Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike passes 7.4 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
93 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.86553, -77.28666

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Museums
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Confucius: 2.8 mi
  • Pieta: 2.9 mi
  • St. Francis: 2.9 mi
  • The Pines: 3.2 mi
  • Fairfax County 9/11 Memorial Grove Garden: 3.7 mi
Attractions
Picnic sites
  • Composer's Cottage Picnic Area: 5.0 mi
  • Filene Center Lawns: 5.1 mi
  • Pony Barn: 5.9 mi
  • Olney Park: 6.1 mi
  • Picnic area D: 7.0 mi
Peaks: 54
Springs: 11
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 15.1 mi
  • Silver Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 16.9 mi
  • White Rock Spring: 22.3 mi
  • Indian Springs: 23.1 mi
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 10.7 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 17.7 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Scott's Run Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Great Falls: 9.3 mi
  • Coe Creek: 10.4 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 15.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 11.8 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 11.9 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 18.7 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 18.7 mi
Cliffs: 4

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Signal MountainW 273°413 m22.4 mi
High Point MountainW 269°397 m23.0 mi
White RockW 273°387 m22.5 mi
Chestnut PeakW 274°374 m21.3 mi
Griffin MountainW 274°295 m24.3 mi
Biscuit MountainW 262°268 m23.5 mi
Hogback MountainNW 313°187 m23.4 mi
Steptoe HillWNW 300°176 m24.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4619:21
June solstice05:4519:5920:38
September equinox06:5718:3319:08
December solstice07:2516:0916:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333542536270757467554537
Precip in3.32.63.83.44.34.14.33.54.23.53.13.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vienna, 2 mi away.

  • Amur honeysuckle151 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail134 obs
  • mayapple125 obs
  • lesser celandine121 obs
  • American tuliptree119 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly117 obs
  • wavyleaf basketgrass111 obs
  • White-tailed Deer108 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/584017735

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