Great Falls Overlook

Great Falls Overlook is a scenic viewpoint in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Great Falls Overlook is situated nearby to the islet Olmsted Island, as well as near the tourism office Great Falls Park Visitor Center.

Places of Interest Nearby

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

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

Waterfall

Photo: MamaGeek, CC BY 3.0.

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

Photo: Russ, CC BY 2.0.

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 Overlook.

Great Falls Overlook

Type: Scenic viewpoint
Category: tourism
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.99673° or 38° 59′ 48″ north

Longitude

-77.25198° or 77° 15′ 7″ west

Open location code

87C4XPWX+M6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 310726457

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=viewpoint

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Great Falls Overlook 1 and Great Falls Overlook 2.

Nearby Places

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