Great Falls

Great Falls is a locality in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Great Falls is situated nearby to the neighborhood Deer Park, as well as near Potomac Ridge.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Great Falls Tavern.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Photo: Zellfaze, CC0.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the District of Columbia, West Virginia and Maryland. It lies in the Potomac River Valley between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland.

Great Falls Tavern

Tourism office

Photo: Russ, CC BY 2.0.

Great Falls Tavern is a historic building in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the United States. Located at mile 14.3 along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, it is today used by the National Park Service as one of its five visitor centers in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.

Lock 19

Canal

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Lock 19 is a canal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Falls and Potomac.

Great Falls

Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Falls in Virginia, within the United States of America. It's a suburb outside the DC beltway. Nearly all the businesses are found at either end of Walker Road.

Potomac

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Potomac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 47,018.

Carderock is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, along the Potomac River. It is located in the southern part of the Potomac census-designated place and western part of the Bethesda postal area. Carderock is situated 3½ miles southeast of Great Falls.

Great Falls

Type: Locality
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.00159° or 39° 0′ 6″ north

Longitude

-77.247° or 77° 14′ 49″ west

Elevation

203 feet (62 metres)

Open location code

87F42Q23+J6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158612973

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

GeoNames ID

4356710

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Highlights include Washington Aqueduct Intake and Washington Aqueduct Observation Platform.

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