Great Falls
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…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfalls on the Potomac River in Maryland and Virginia
- Also known as: “Great Falls of the Potomac”, “Great Falls of the Potomac River”, “Great Falls Potomac River”, and “Patowmeck Falls”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Olmsted Island.
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.
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
- Category: body of water
- Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.99769° or 38° 59′ 52″ northLongitude
-77.25287° or 77° 15′ 10″ westElevation
128 feet (39 metres)Height
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
87C4XPXW+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 508029576OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallGeoNames ID
4761950Wikidata ID
Q1475394
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Great Falls” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պոտոմակի մեծ ջրվեժներ”
- Catalan: “Cascades Great (Potomac)”
- Catalan: “Cascades Great”
- Danish: “Great Falls”
- German: “Great Falls of the Potomac River”
- Hebrew: “המפלים הגדולים (נהר הפוטומק)”
- Hebrew: “המפלים הגדולים”
- Polish: “Great Falls”
- Russian: “Великие водопады Потомака”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Great Falls and Fairview.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Great Falls Overlook and Great Falls Overlook 1.
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