Great Falls
Great Falls is a waterfall in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Great Falls is situated nearby to the area Six Locks, as well as near the neighborhood Fairview.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Great Falls.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
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
Waterfall
Great Falls is a series of rapids and waterfalls on the Potomac River in the state of Maryland 14 miles upstream from Washington, D.C. As the border between the states of Maryland and Virginia generally follows the low-water line on the Virginia side, the…
Olmsted Island
Islet
Olmsted Island is a small island in the middle of the Potomac River in the U.S. state of Maryland, near Great Falls which is a part of C & O Canal National Historical Park, located across the river from Great Falls Park.
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
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
Locality
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: Waterfall
- Also known as: “Great Falls Potomac River” and “Patowmeck Falls”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.99662° or 38° 59′ 48″ northLongitude
-77.25296° or 77° 15′ 11″ westElevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
87C4XPWW+JRGeoNames ID
4356711
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