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Woodland Park

Woodland Park from directly overhead

Woodland Park is a park in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 330 m. Poor Mountain stands 1,141 m to the west-southwest, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Shrine Hill Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 2.9 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.24998, -79.98287

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Shrine Hill Park: 0.2 mi
  • Fishburn Park: 0.2 mi
  • Shrine Hill Park: 0.4 mi
  • Brambleton Park: 0.5 mi
  • The Community Arboretum: 0.6 mi
Peaks
Museums: 17
Artworks: 10
Nature reserves: 9
Attractions: 8
Gardens: 7
  • Mountain View Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Garden: 2.2 mi
  • George Washington Carver Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Beale Garden: 7.6 mi
  • Community Garden: 7.8 mi
Cliffs: 3
  • Dragon's Tooth: 13.0 mi
  • Tinker Cliffs: 13.0 mi
  • Lovers Leap: 20.0 mi
Rest areas: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Spring Well #25: 18.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Woodland Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Poor MountainWSW 249°1,141 m10.0 mi
Cahas MountainS 191°1,083 m9.3 mi
Fort Lewis MountainWNW 293°998 m10.6 mi
Bent MountainSW 224°975 m9.7 mi
McAfee KnobNNW 343°974 m10.3 mi
Bull Run KnobSW 224°972 m9.7 mi
Masons KnobSSW 207°961 m5.9 mi
Brush MountainWNW 300°943 m15.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5819:32
June solstice06:0120:0520:44
September equinox07:0818:4419:19
December solstice07:3116:2617:07

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384148586674787670594841
Precip in3.22.93.53.54.34.74.33.44.13.03.03.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roanoke-blacksburg Rgnl AP, 5 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly44 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle32 obs
  • Eastern Boxelder Bug28 obs
  • White-tailed Deer25 obs
  • lesser celandine23 obs
  • American pokeweed22 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee22 obs
  • box elder20 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/44820055

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