Western Branch Park
Western Branch Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Baines Hill stands 20 m to the south-southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Picnic Shelter #3, a picnic site 0.2 miles away. Lafayette's Tour passes 26 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 26.4 mi off the Lafayette's Tour
- 29.0 mi off the Colonial Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Goose Creek Estates: 1.1 mi
- Stonebridge Landing Park: 1.4 mi
- Hunter's Cove Park: 1.7 mi
- Southwestern Park: 1.8 mi
- Miars Plantation Park: 2.0 mi
- LOVE: 7.0 mi
- Armed Forces Memorial: 7.3 mi
- Homecoming: 7.4 mi
- Waterwork: 7.4 mi
- Lone Sailor: 7.4 mi
- Unknown Roadside Memoria: 2.5 mi
- Damion's Cross: 2.6 mi
- Fort Nelson: 6.9 mi
- Arnold's British Defenses, 1781: 6.9 mi
- Cornwalis at Portsmouth: 6.9 mi
- Friendship Courtyard: 6.9 mi
- Fred Heutte Center: 7.8 mi
- Wellness Orchard: 9.1 mi
- White House Memorial Garden: 9.1 mi
- ZooFarm Garden: 9.1 mi
- Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum: 6.1 mi
- Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center: 6.8 mi
- Railroad Museum of Virginia: 6.9 mi
- Children's Museum of Virginia: 7.0 mi
- Hill House Museum: 7.0 mi
- Pokey Smokey II: 3.1 mi
- Archway: 7.1 mi
- Fresnel Lens from Hog Island Light: 7.1 mi
- USS Norfolk Bell: 7.4 mi
- F/A-18: 9.9 mi
- Camp Moonya: 6.5 mi
- Weyanoke Bird and Wildflower Sanctuary: 7.5 mi
- Long Leaf Pine Enhancement: 8.3 mi
- Wildlife Habitat Enhancement: 8.8 mi
- Cavalier: 10.3 mi
- Needle Beach: 6.8 mi
- Willoughby Beach: 13.5 mi
- Huntington Beach: 14.0 mi
- Outlook Beach: 15.3 mi
- Chix Beach: 17.6 mi
- Mintonville Point: 7.4 mi
- Brock Point: 8.0 mi
- Boushs Bluff: 8.5 mi
- Muskrat Bluff: 8.7 mi
- Holly Point: 13.8 mi
- Knob Hill: 8.2 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 16.5 mi
- Encore Hill: 16.7 mi
- Baines Hill: 19.3 mi
- White Hill: 22.7 mi
- Keeper's House: 14.4 mi
- Old Point Comfort Lighthouse: 14.4 mi
- Old Cape Henry Lighthouse: 24.1 mi
- Cape Henry Lighthouse: 24.2 mi
- Picnic Shelter #3: 0.2 mi
- Picnic Shelter #1: 0.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Western Branch Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baines Hill | SSW 211° | 20 m | 19.3 mi |
| Mount Trashmore | E 86° | 18 m | 16.5 mi |
| White Hill | ENE 75° | 10 m | 22.7 mi |
| Knob Hill | W 260° | 8 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:50 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 44 | 50 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 64 | 53 | 46 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk NAS, 11 mi away.
- Canada Goose17 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron15 obs
- Black Swallowtail15 obs
- Monarch14 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail13 obs
- Great Egret13 obs
- Yellow Garden Spider10 obs
- mountain laurel7 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/552623512
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