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Riverside Park

Riverside Park from directly overhead

Riverside Park is a park in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Hunt Park, a park 0.5 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway runs past it. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.71118, -77.07160

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fort Hunt Park: 0.5 mi
  • Riverside Gardens Swim and Tennis Club: 0.9 mi
  • Little Hunting Creek Park: 1.1 mi
  • The National Colonial Farm: 1.4 mi
  • Woodley Hills Park: 1.5 mi
Attractions
  • George Washington's Mount Vernon: 0.7 mi
  • Mansion Line Entry: 0.8 mi
  • Mansion Circle/Specialty Tours: 0.8 mi
  • Historic Area Entrance & Exit: 0.9 mi
  • George Washington's Distillery and Gristmill Tour: 3.2 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
  • Upper Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Lower Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Fruit Garden & Nursery: 0.9 mi
  • Garden Mulch Supply: 2.4 mi
  • Woodlawn Plantation Garden: 3.6 mi
Nature reserves
Picnic sites
  • Treehouse: 4.8 mi
  • Picnic Table: 6.4 mi
  • Enchanted Pond Picnic Areas (4): 7.0 mi
  • Area 4: 8.4 mi
  • Area 5: 8.4 mi
Artworks
Peaks: 37
Beaches: 8
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 10.2 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 13.9 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 16.2 mi
  • Dolphin Beach: 16.2 mi
  • West Beach: 16.6 mi
Cliffs: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 15.3 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 15.4 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 23.7 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 23.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Coe Creek: 15.8 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 19.0 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 19.1 mi
  • Great Falls: 22.1 mi
Springs: 4
  • Takoma Spring: 18.5 mi
  • Silver Spring: 19.4 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 19.9 mi
  • Indian Springs: 22.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillNNW 330°156 m17.2 mi
Mount DanielNNW 335°144 m14.2 mi
Minor's HillNNW 341°140 m14.1 mi
Freedom HillNNW 328°140 m17.3 mi
Prout HillNNW 331°137 m13.4 mi
Upton HillNNW 340°125 m12.0 mi
Point RenoN 359°123 m16.6 mi
Spy HillNNW 342°114 m11.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4519:20
June solstice05:4519:5720:37
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2416:0916:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363845566574787770584840
Precip in3.12.94.03.44.54.95.04.24.43.83.13.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oxon Hill, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Bald Eagle111 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail111 obs
  • Castor-Aralia104 obs
  • Osprey91 obs
  • common pawpaw86 obs
  • Common Five-lined Skink79 obs
  • Zebra Swallowtail79 obs
  • American tuliptree78 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/494734794

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