Big Pines Park
Big Pines Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 113 m. Sugarloaf Mountain stands 387 m to the northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Dufief Local Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 3.3 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 113 m
How to reach it
- 3.3 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 6.9 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 8.9 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 10.8 mi off the Antietam Campaign Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook rock, high · 6 mi
- Overlook rock, lower · 6 mi
- Washington Aqueduct Observation Platform · 6 mi
- Olmsted Island and Overlook Trail · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Dufief Local Park: 0.9 mi
- Lambertina Park: 1.1 mi
- Pleasant View Park: 1.3 mi
- Washingtonian Woods Park: 1.7 mi
- Glen Hills Local Park: 1.8 mi
- Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Schwartz Peony Garden: 4.1 mi
- Glenview Mansion Garden: 5.4 mi
- No Place Like Home: 8.8 mi
- Vermont Maple Garden: 9.3 mi
- Lake Placid Dam: 1.7 mi
- Orchard Neighborhood Park: 3.0 mi
- Asbury "Wildlife at Work" Protected Habitat: 4.6 mi
- Crabbs Branch Stream Valley Park: 4.8 mi
- Washington Grove Forest Preserve - East Woods: 4.8 mi
- Montgomery County Public Safety Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Inspiration Park: 2.3 mi
- Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory: 3.8 mi
- Darnestown Confederate Visit: 3.8 mi
- The Cliff Bland Recreation Area: 3.8 mi
- Three Big Dogs: 2.1 mi
- Split Rocker (2000) by Jeff Koons: 2.1 mi
- Two Partially Buried Sinks (1985) by Robert Gober: 2.2 mi
- Contour 290 (2004) by Richard Serra: 2.2 mi
- Innovator's Park: 2.2 mi
- Glenstone Museum: 2.3 mi
- Stonestreet Museum: 3.9 mi
- Fire Museum: 4.1 mi
- Gaithersburg Community Museum: 4.2 mi
- Mooseum: 6.1 mi
- Carousel at Rio: 2.7 mi
- Lock 21: Swains Lock: 4.0 mi
- Lock 22: Pennyfield Lock: 4.0 mi
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: 4.5 mi
- Riverbend Park Nature Center: 4.7 mi
- Quail Ridge: 3.8 mi
- Oriole Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
- Pines Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
- Chickadee Picnic Area: 4.4 mi
- Carderock, Chesapeake & Ohio National Historic Park: 8.1 mi
- Hunting Hill: 1.7 mi
- Black Hill: 7.8 mi
- Prospect Hill: 8.3 mi
- Nokes Hill: 10.4 mi
- Gantt Hill: 11.2 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 10.7 mi
- Sandy Spring: 11.7 mi
- Silver Spring: 12.7 mi
- Takoma Spring: 14.3 mi
- Indian Springs: 19.0 mi
- Great Falls: 6.3 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 8.4 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 8.4 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 17.7 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 7.3 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 7.3 mi
- Fishing Shore: 14.1 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 17.2 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 11.7 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 11.7 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 24.2 mi
- Truck Rest Area: 19.3 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 23.9 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Pines Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NW 324° | 387 m | 15.0 mi |
| Waterford Peak | WNW 290° | 361 m | 19.7 mi |
| Pine Rock | NW 314° | 346 m | 22.6 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WNW 296° | 235 m | 20.4 mi |
| Hogback Mountain | W 272° | 187 m | 20.3 mi |
| Steptoe Hill | W 262° | 176 m | 24.3 mi |
| Hunting Hill | E 96° | 156 m | 1.7 mi |
| Gantt Hill | S 181° | 156 m | 11.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:08 | 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 | 35 | 37 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rockville 1 NE, 4 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer91 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty58 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel47 obs
- Northern Cardinal45 obs
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit45 obs
- Canada Goose43 obs
- American Robin42 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage39 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/358251814
Day trips start here
- Gaithersburg · 3 mi
- Montgomery County · 4 mi
- Rockville · 4 mi
- Potomac · 5 mi
- Germantown · 7 mi
- Great Falls · 7 mi
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