Lane Beach
Lane Beach is a beach in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Rock Springs Hill stands 55 m to the southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is George B Cecil Memorial Park, a park 3.4 miles away. Religious Freedom Byway passes 2.8 miles off. 25 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
beach in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States
Wikidata Q49321735, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Religious Freedom Byway, National
- 10.1 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 24.4 mi off the Booth's Escape
- 25.9 mi off the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Church Point · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- George B Cecil Memorial Park: 3.4 mi
- Cecils Mill Historic District: 4.5 mi
- James W Henderson Park: 5.4 mi
- Piney Point Landing Park: 5.6 mi
- Saint Mary's Fairground: 5.7 mi
- Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
- "On Watch": 10.6 mi
- Seated Woman: 11.8 mi
- Squatting Woman with Shawl: 11.8 mi
- Resting: 11.8 mi
- Blue Gull Hill: 11.7 mi
- Thompson Hill: 12.0 mi
- Mount Airy: 12.1 mi
- Prospect Hill: 12.1 mi
- Shingle Hill: 12.1 mi
- Potomac River Maritime Exhibit: 4.8 mi
- Piney Point Light House Museum: 4.8 mi
- Drayden African-American Schoolhouse: 5.0 mi
- The Maryland Dove: 7.2 mi
- Historic St. Mary's City: 7.5 mi
- Ragged Point Beach: 4.7 mi
- Piney Point Beach: 5.0 mi
- Sandyland Beach: 5.2 mi
- Saint George Island Beach: 7.3 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 8.3 mi
- Freedom of Conscience: 7.4 mi
- Margaret Brent Pilgrimage: 7.4 mi
- African American Monument: 7.8 mi
- Commemorative to The Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland: 8.0 mi
- Chesapeake Biological Laboratory: 10.3 mi
- Piney Point Aquaculture Center: 3.6 mi
- Protected Bird Sanctuary: 8.7 mi
- Former Rowland Property: 9.6 mi
- Elms Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 10.4 mi
- Mollys Leg Dredge Spoil: 10.5 mi
- Poseys Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Yellows Banks: 7.3 mi
- Nutts Cliffs: 13.4 mi
- Nomini Cliffs: 13.4 mi
- Stratford Cliffs: 14.2 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 7.3 mi
- Drum Point Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lane Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Springs Hill | SW 230° | 55 m | 17.4 mi |
| China Hill | WSW 247° | 54 m | 18.6 mi |
| Pantico Hill | SW 229° | 52 m | 15.9 mi |
| Sexton Hill | SW 224° | 52 m | 17.6 mi |
| New Richmond Hill | WSW 258° | 52 m | 20.9 mi |
| Grants Hill | WSW 258° | 52 m | 22.2 mi |
| Kentucky Hill | W 259° | 50 m | 14.2 mi |
| Stony Hill | WSW 242° | 48 m | 16.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:54 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:09 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 40 | 46 | 57 | 66 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 71 | 60 | 50 | 42 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST Inigoes Webster Nolf, 9 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Ragged Point, Coles Neck, Va., VA, 5 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358247689
Day trips start here
- Leonardtown · 7 mi
- St. Mary's City · 7 mi
- Lexington Park · 8 mi
- Solomons · 11 mi
- Westmoreland County · 14 mi
- Cobb Island · 16 mi
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