Tailrace Park
Tailrace Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 65 m. Ivy Hill stands 120 m to the west, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Picnic Shelter, a picnic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Lafayette's Tour passes 16 miles off. 78 named places lie within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 65 m
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Lafayette's Tour
78 named places within 25 miles
- North Bend Park & Campground: 1.0 mi
- North Bend Public Use Area: 1.7 mi
- Palmer Point Park: 2.8 mi
- Eagle Point Wildlife Management Area: 5.0 mi
- County Line Public Use Area: 5.2 mi
- South Hill Tobacco Museum: 12.7 mi
- Model Railroad / Doll Museum / Chamber of Commerce: 12.8 mi
- Clarksville Regional Museum: 14.6 mi
- Prestwould Plantation: 15.0 mi
- Henderson Institute Historical Museum: 19.0 mi
- Old Soudan Wildlife Management Area: 12.1 mi
- Crooked Run Wildlife Management Area: 16.4 mi
- Wrc Stonehouse Creek Access Area: 21.1 mi
- Wrc Henrico Access Area: 23.9 mi
- Mecklenburg County Veterans Memorial: 14.8 mi
- Dr. L. Julian Haywood: 16.0 mi
- Thyne Institute Memorial: 17.7 mi
- Saint Paul’s Chapel School (Rosenwald Funded): 24.4 mi
- Picnic Shelter: 0.0 mi
- Picnic Area: 0.3 mi
- Osage Picnic Shelter: 1.1 mi
- Joseph S. J. Tanner Environmental Education Center: 0.2 mi
- Solitary Sentinel: 12.9 mi
- Occoneechee Plantation Terrace Gardens: 12.9 mi
- J. Stewart and Mary L. Green Wortham Memorial Gardens: 16.2 mi
- Rosseechees Bluff: 13.4 mi
- Chalk Level: 13.9 mi
- Ivy Hill: 7.5 mi
- Reminiscing: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tailrace Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy Hill | W 263° | 120 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:51 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 19:57 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:21 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 42 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 73 | 61 | 51 | 43 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — John H Kerr DAM, under a mile away.
- Double-crested Cormorant32 obs
- Bald Eagle27 obs
- Black Vulture26 obs
- Eastern Pondhawk16 obs
- Great Blue Heron13 obs
- Common Buckeye12 obs
- autumn olive12 obs
- Wild Turkey10 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 node/356587751
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