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Takoma Recreational Center Garden

Takoma Recreational Center Garden from directly overhead

Takoma Recreational Center Garden is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 72 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Takoma Recreation Center, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 5.6 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates38.97043, -77.01654

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • From a Model to a Rainbow: 0.3 mi
  • Roscoe: 0.4 mi
  • Playing In The Fields Of Lamond: 0.5 mi
  • Leave No One Behind: 1.0 mi
  • The Silver Pass: 1.5 mi
Gardens
  • Whittier Garden: 0.3 mi
  • TPPC Native Plant Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Takoma Community Garden: 0.6 mi
  • Emery Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Centennial Garden: 0.9 mi
Picnic sites
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Komodo Dragon: 3.2 mi
  • False Gavial: 3.2 mi
  • Red-Bellied Turtle: 3.2 mi
  • Chinese alligator: 3.2 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 3.2 mi
Peaks: 34
Cliffs: 8
Springs: 5
  • Takoma Spring: 0.6 mi
  • Silver Spring: 1.5 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 3.2 mi
  • Indian Springs: 6.9 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 11.7 mi
Beaches: 5
  • Fishing Shore: 5.9 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 11.1 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 12.0 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 12.1 mi
  • Herald Harbor Beach 1: 24.7 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Stubblefield Falls: 9.6 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 10.0 mi
  • Great Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 23.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Takoma Recreational Center Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillWSW 255°156 m12.0 mi
Hunting HillNW 309°156 m12.5 mi
Black HillNW 315°148 m21.3 mi
Mount DanielWSW 241°144 m10.2 mi
Minor's HillWSW 239°140 m8.9 mi
Freedom HillWSW 255°140 m12.6 mi
Prout HillWSW 237°137 m11.3 mi
Upton HillSW 226°125 m9.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4519:20
June solstice05:4319:5820:38
September equinox06:5618:3219:07
December solstice07:2416:0816:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363946576776807972594941
Precip in3.02.84.03.44.34.64.63.74.14.23.23.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Natl Arboretum DC, 5 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer528 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel432 obs
  • American Robin403 obs
  • Christmas fern402 obs
  • lesser celandine329 obs
  • mayapple316 obs
  • bloodroot290 obs
  • American tuliptree273 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/66819489

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