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Villa D'Este Park

Villa D'Este Park from directly overhead

Villa D'Este Park is a park in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 96 m. Signal Mountain stands 413 m to the west, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Stafford East Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Old Georgetown Pike passes 7.3 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Fairfax County Park Authority

How to reach it

Coordinates38.86825, -77.28894

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Museums
Attractions
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Confucius: 2.9 mi
  • Pieta: 3.1 mi
  • St. Francis: 3.2 mi
  • The Pines: 3.4 mi
  • Fairfax County 9/11 Memorial Grove Garden: 3.6 mi
Picnic sites
  • Composer's Cottage Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
  • Filene Center Lawns: 4.9 mi
  • Pony Barn: 5.7 mi
  • Olney Park: 6.1 mi
  • Picnic area D: 6.8 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: 22.1 mi
  • Indian Springs: 23.1 mi
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 7.7 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 8.3 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 8.3 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 10.7 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 17.9 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Scott's Run Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Great Falls: 9.2 mi
  • Coe Creek: 10.5 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 15.0 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 11.8 mi
  • Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 11.8 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 18.8 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 18.9 mi
Cliffs: 4

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Signal MountainW 272°413 m22.3 mi
High Point MountainW 268°397 m22.9 mi
White RockW 273°387 m22.4 mi
Chestnut PeakW 273°374 m21.2 mi
Griffin MountainW 274°295 m24.2 mi
Biscuit MountainW 261°268 m23.4 mi
Hogback MountainNW 313°187 m23.2 mi
Steptoe HillWNW 299°176 m24.0 mi

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, 2 mi away.

  • Amur honeysuckle150 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail128 obs
  • mayapple126 obs
  • American tuliptree119 obs
  • lesser celandine118 obs
  • wavyleaf basketgrass111 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly108 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel104 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/147416663

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