Battle Creek Cypress Swamp County Sanctuary
Battle Creek Cypress Swamp County Sanctuary is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Rose Hill stands 48 m to the west, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Nature Sanctuary, a park 0.6 miles away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 0.6 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 5.7 mi off the Roots and Tides Byway
- 13.5 mi off the Booth's Escape
- 13.6 mi off the Religious Freedom Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Church Point · 23 mi
- Eagle Nesting Site · 27 mi
- Fort Washington Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Nature Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Gray's Road Dog Park: 1.2 mi
- Pimlico Park: 2.0 mi
- Hallowing Point District Park: 2.2 mi
- King Memorial Park: 2.5 mi
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Gatewood Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Maxwell Hall Natural Resource Management Area: 5.7 mi
- Kings Landing Natural Resource Management Area: 9.0 mi
- Sotterley: 9.2 mi
- Marseille: 13.2 mi
- A Tribute to the Oyster Tonger, A Chesapeake Waterman: 13.2 mi
- Greenberg Variations: 13.2 mi
- Cluster of Four Cubes: 13.2 mi
- The Council Ring: 13.2 mi
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Nature Center: 0.9 mi
- Arthur Storer Planetarium;Spaceflight America Museum and Science Center: 3.5 mi
- Fisherman's Cabin: 8.1 mi
- Sotterley Plantation: 9.1 mi
- Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum: 13.3 mi
- Corncrib: 3.8 mi
- Lemuel-Wallace House: 3.9 mi
- Drum Point Lighthouse: 13.7 mi
- Solomon’s Island: 14.2 mi
- To Those Who Fished The Bay And Built Their Boats: 14.2 mi
- Matoaka Beach: 6.5 mi
- Long Beach: 7.0 mi
- Breezy Point Beach: 9.2 mi
- Brownie's Beach: 12.6 mi
- Cove Point Beach: 13.9 mi
- Calvert Cliffs: 4.5 mi
- Calvert Cliffs: 8.3 mi
- Nutts Cliffs: 9.7 mi
- Roosevelt Cliffs: 9.8 mi
- Roosevelt Cliffs: 10.0 mi
- Malone's Church: 20.3 mi
- Glendening Walking Trails at Jug Bay Nature Preserve: 20.9 mi
- Billingsley House Museum: 21.3 mi
- Prince George's Equestrian Center: 22.9 mi
- Show Place Arena: 22.9 mi
- Fort Hill: 7.7 mi
- Ellenboro Hill: 21.4 mi
- Bunker Hill: 21.8 mi
- Ravens Crest: 22.6 mi
- Rose Hill: 23.6 mi
- Drum Point Lighthouse: 13.7 mi
- Wilson: 16.3 mi
- Patuxent Park Pavillion: 18.3 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Battle Creek Cypress Swamp County Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Hill | W 273° | 48 m | 23.6 mi |
| Bunker Hill | WSW 251° | 38 m | 21.8 mi |
| Ellenboro Hill | WSW 252° | 37 m | 21.4 mi |
| Fort Hill | SE 127° | 35 m | 7.7 mi |
| Ravens Crest | WSW 250° | 30 m | 22.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:55 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:08 | 16:49 |
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 | 35 | 37 | 44 | 55 | 63 | 71 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mechanicsville 5 NE, 7 mi away.
- crane-fly orchid330 obs
- Ebony Jewelwing268 obs
- Great Blue Skimmer253 obs
- Needham's Skimmer243 obs
- Common Whitetail180 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail177 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty167 obs
- Monarch162 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358243763
Day trips start here
- Prince Frederick · 3 mi
- Solomons · 13 mi
- Chesapeake Beach · 14 mi
- Leonardtown · 15 mi
- Southern Maryland · 15 mi
- Lexington Park · 18 mi
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