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The Turner Farm Park

The Turner Farm Park from directly overhead

The Turner Farm Park is a park in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 110 m. Signal Mountain stands 413 m to the west-southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Observatory Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike runs past it. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Fairfax County Park Authority

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.99637, -77.31171

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Observatory Park: 0.1 mi
  • Great Falls Nike Park: 0.9 mi
  • Great Falls Grange Park: 1.4 mi
  • Brown's Park: 2.3 mi
  • Lake Anne Park: 2.3 mi
Museums
Picnic sites
  • Picnic area A: 2.2 mi
  • Picnic area B: 2.2 mi
  • Picnic area C: 2.2 mi
  • Picnic area D: 2.2 mi
  • Filene Center Lawns: 4.8 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Pyramid: 2.5 mi
  • ART studio/gallery: 2.5 mi
  • sculpture garden: 2.5 mi
  • Buoyant Force: 3.7 mi
  • Potomac River Water Filtration Plant: 4.2 mi
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Lock 19: 3.4 mi
  • Lock 18: 3.4 mi
  • Pupatella Car: 3.4 mi
  • Lock 20: 3.4 mi
  • Lock 16: 3.6 mi
Gardens
  • Vermont Maple Garden: 4.1 mi
  • The Farm at Halley Rise: 4.2 mi
  • Fred Packard Grove: 4.2 mi
  • Children’s Garden and Pavillion: 4.2 mi
  • Conifer Collection: 4.3 mi
Peaks: 60
Springs: 7
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 13.3 mi
  • Silver Spring: 15.2 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 16.5 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 18.5 mi
  • White Rock Spring: 22.1 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Great Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 11.7 mi
  • Coe Creek: 18.8 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Sycamore Beach: 3.9 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 4.0 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 13.0 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 13.6 mi
Cliffs: 4
Rest areas: 2
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 16.2 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 16.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Signal MountainWSW 249°413 m22.5 mi
High Point MountainWSW 246°397 m23.7 mi
Sugarloaf MountainNNW 347°387 m18.9 mi
White RockWSW 250°387 m22.5 mi
Chestnut PeakWSW 249°374 m21.3 mi
Waterford PeakNW 313°361 m19.2 mi
Pine RockNNW 332°346 m25.0 mi
Griffin MountainWSW 253°295 m24.0 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, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer111 obs
  • American Toad58 obs
  • Common Box Turtle57 obs
  • Broad-headed Sharpshooter51 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail43 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk37 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle36 obs
  • Eastern Pondhawk35 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/121176220

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