Villa Heights Recreation Center
Villa Heights Recreation Center is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 323 m. Poor Mountain stands 1,141 m to the southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Horton Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 5.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 323 m
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 27.1 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Mill Mountain Overlook · 4 mi
- Mill Mountain Star Overlook · 4 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 6 mi
- Roanoke River Overlook · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Horton Park: 0.5 mi
- Southwest Historic District: 0.7 mi
- Eureka Park: 1.1 mi
- Melrose Park: 1.2 mi
- Welford Hurt Park: 1.4 mi
- Round Hill: 1.7 mi
- Mill Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Stone Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Green Ridge: 4.4 mi
- Chestnut Ridge: 4.9 mi
- Agatha Strother Lewis | Col. Elijah McClanahan: 0.5 mi
- Rorer Hall: 2.4 mi
- Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Depot: 2.4 mi
- Hunton Life Saving and First Aid Crew: 2.4 mi
- 28 Wells Avenue, N.W.: 2.4 mi
- Virginia Museum of Transportation: 2.2 mi
- Roanoke Pinball Museum: 2.6 mi
- O. Winston Link Museum: 2.6 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 2.6 mi
- Taubman Museum of Art: 2.6 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 2.0 mi
- Roanoke Firefighter statue: 2.3 mi
- Henrietta Lacks: 2.4 mi
- Merrill Gainer Statue: 2.5 mi
- The Rock: 4.2 mi
- Read Mountain Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Carvins Cove: 6.7 mi
- Happy Hollow Gardens Park: 6.7 mi
- Explore Park: 8.2 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 10.0 mi
- Norfolk Southern 8661: 2.3 mi
- Jupiter Missile: 2.3 mi
- Roanoke Star: 3.9 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 11.2 mi
- Pacabella Farm Alpacas & Boutique: 13.9 mi
- Mountain View Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- George Washington Carver Community Garden: 2.0 mi
- Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Garden: 3.4 mi
- Beale Garden: 4.8 mi
- Community Garden: 4.9 mi
- Tinker Cliffs: 10.1 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 11.6 mi
- Lovers Leap: 17.4 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 14.0 mi
- Troutville Safety Rest Area: 15.3 mi
- Virginia Rest Area Mile 158 South (I-81): 15.3 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 16.4 mi
- Camp Creek: 16.5 mi
- Spring Well #25: 21.1 mi
- Big Spring: 23.4 mi
- Howrytown: 11.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Villa Heights Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poor Mountain | SW 235° | 1,141 m | 11.6 mi |
| Earn Knob | NW 313° | 1,097 m | 15.1 mi |
| Cahas Mountain | S 189° | 1,083 m | 12.3 mi |
| Fort Lewis Mountain | W 277° | 998 m | 10.0 mi |
| Bent Mountain | SW 215° | 975 m | 12.1 mi |
| McAfee Knob | NNW 336° | 974 m | 7.6 mi |
| Bull Run Knob | SW 215° | 972 m | 12.1 mi |
| Masons Knob | SSW 199° | 961 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:58 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 06:00 | 20:06 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:44 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:26 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 41 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roanoke-blacksburg Rgnl AP, 2 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly18 obs
- Northern Cardinal16 obs
- White-throated Sparrow16 obs
- American Robin11 obs
- Common Box Turtle11 obs
- Fantail Darter9 obs
- Cedar Waxwing8 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee8 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 way/1318232207
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 3 mi
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