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Alger Park

Alger Park from directly overhead

Alger Park is a nature reserve, at a recorded elevation of 52 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Good Hope Hill, a peak 0.3 miles away. Booth's Escape passes 0.8 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
52 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.86460, -76.96568

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • J. Robert Elliott: 0.7 mi
  • Thomas Harmon Patterson: 1.3 mi
  • Belva Lockwood: 1.3 mi
  • Alexander Dallas Bache: 1.3 mi
  • The Ward 6 September 11 Memorial Grove: 1.3 mi
Attractions
Gardens
  • Community Garden Plots (NPS): 1.2 mi
  • Ex Garden Future & MTB Pump Track: 1.5 mi
  • Barracks Row Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • River Street Gardens: 1.9 mi
  • Lovejoy Garden: 2.5 mi
Artworks
Picnic sites
Peaks: 32
Beaches: 8
Cliffs: 5
Springs: 5
  • Takoma Spring: 7.8 mi
  • Silver Spring: 9.3 mi
  • Indian Springs: 10.1 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 10.7 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 19.3 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Stubblefield Falls: 14.3 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 14.6 mi
  • Great Falls: 18.0 mi
  • Coe Creek: 23.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillWNW 286°156 m15.0 mi
Hunting HillNW 321°156 m19.7 mi
Mount DanielW 281°144 m11.9 mi
Minor's HillWNW 285°140 m10.7 mi
Freedom HillWNW 285°140 m15.5 mi
Prout HillW 275°137 m12.3 mi
Upton HillW 274°125 m9.7 mi
Point RenoNW 316°123 m8.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4419:5720:37
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, 3 mi away.

  • Amur honeysuckle117 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee112 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee109 obs
  • Domestic Cat107 obs
  • Porcelain Berry96 obs
  • Western Honey Bee86 obs
  • eastern poison ivy85 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly84 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/48207523

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