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Tamarack Park

Tamarack Park from directly overhead

Tamarack Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 74 m. Signal Mountain stands 413 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Fred Packard Grove, a garden 0.3 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike passes 3.6 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
74 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates38.93539, -77.29193

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Fred Packard Grove: 0.3 mi
  • Native Wetlands & Bog Garden: 0.4 mi
  • Korean Bell Garden: 0.4 mi
  • Historic Daylily Collection: 0.4 mi
  • Conifer Collection: 0.4 mi
Parks
Attractions
Picnic sites
  • Filene Center Lawns: 1.4 mi
  • Composer's Cottage Picnic Area: 1.5 mi
  • Picnic area D: 2.4 mi
  • Picnic area C: 2.4 mi
  • Picnic area B: 2.4 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
  • sculpture garden: 3.4 mi
  • ART studio/gallery: 3.5 mi
  • Pyramid: 3.5 mi
  • Buoyant Force: 4.1 mi
  • Mustang Statue: 6.0 mi
Peaks: 59
Springs: 11
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 13.0 mi
  • Silver Spring: 14.6 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 15.6 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 20.3 mi
  • Indian Springs: 21.9 mi
Beaches: 7
  • Sycamore Beach: 4.2 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 4.3 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 9.8 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 10.6 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 22.4 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Great Falls: 4.8 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 13.1 mi
  • Coe Creek: 14.9 mi
Cliffs: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 13.9 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 14.0 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 23.5 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 23.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Signal MountainW 261°413 m22.4 mi
High Point MountainWSW 257°397 m23.3 mi
White RockW 261°387 m22.5 mi
Sugarloaf MountainNNW 347°387 m23.2 mi
Chestnut PeakW 261°374 m21.3 mi
Waterford PeakNW 319°361 m22.9 mi
Griffin MountainW 263°295 m24.2 mi
Biscuit MountainWSW 250°268 m24.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4619:21
June solstice05:4519:5920:39
September equinox06:5818:3319:08
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, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer1,122 obs
  • Red Fox554 obs
  • Northern Cardinal501 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail396 obs
  • Eastern Bluebird316 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel278 obs
  • American Robin264 obs
  • Monarch264 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 node/356600638

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