Great Falls Park
Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service site in Virginia, United States. Situated on 800 acres along the banks of the Potomac River in northern Fairfax County, the park is a disconnected but integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: U.S. National Park facing the Great Falls of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia
- Also known as: “Great Falls National Park”
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 east of Great Falls Park.
Great Falls Park
- Category: National Park System unit
- Location: Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Polish—“Great Falls Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Falls Park”
- Chinese: “波托马克河大瀑布公园”
- Dutch: “Great Falls Park”
- French: “Great Falls Park”
- German: “Great Falls Park”
- Japanese: “グレートフォールズ・パーク”
- Japanese: “グレートフォールズ公園”
- Polish: “Great Falls Park”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rocky Islands and Great Falls.
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