Bretton Woods Recreation Center
Bretton Woods Recreation Center is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 69 m. Short Hill Mountain stands 441 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Lock 23: Violettes Lock, a attraction 0.3 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 0.3 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 69 m
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 4.9 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 7.0 mi off the Antietam Campaign Byway
- 10.8 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook rock, lower · 1 mi
- Overlook rock, high · 1 mi
- Washington Aqueduct Observation Platform · 7 mi
- Great Falls Overlook 1 · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lock 23: Violettes Lock: 0.3 mi
- Lock 24: Rileys Lock: 0.6 mi
- Lock 22: Pennyfield Lock: 2.5 mi
- Lock 21: Swains Lock: 5.4 mi
- Riverbend Park Nature Center: 5.4 mi
- The River of Blood: 0.8 mi
- Seneca Quarry: 0.8 mi
- Darnestown Confederate Visit: 3.0 mi
- The Cliff Bland Recreation Area: 3.0 mi
- Montgomery County Public Safety Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Berryville Road Neighborhood Conservation Area: 0.9 mi
- Fraser Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Algonkian Regional Park: 2.6 mi
- Sugarland Special Park: 3.8 mi
- Orchard Neighborhood Park: 5.1 mi
- Tobytown Neighborhood Park: 2.4 mi
- Potomack Lakes Sportsplex: 3.0 mi
- Darnestown Heritage Park: 3.0 mi
- Darnestown Local Park - Cliff Bland Recreation Area: 3.1 mi
- Sugarland Run Trail Park: 3.1 mi
- Negro Sunshine: 4.3 mi
- Horse and Rider (2015) by Charles Ray: 4.3 mi
- Compression Line (1968/2016) by Michael Heizer: 4.3 mi
- Split Rocker (2000) by Jeff Koons: 4.4 mi
- Smug (1973/2005) by Tony Smith: 4.4 mi
- Glenstone Museum: 4.3 mi
- Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum: 5.5 mi
- Mooseum: 5.6 mi
- Reston Museum: 7.1 mi
- Colvin Run General Store: 7.3 mi
- Vermont Maple Garden: 4.4 mi
- Community Garden: 6.1 mi
- Schwartz Peony Garden: 6.8 mi
- Poolesville Community Garden: 7.0 mi
- The Farm at Halley Rise: 8.6 mi
- Quail Ridge: 6.1 mi
- Chickadee Picnic Area: 6.6 mi
- Pines Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Oriole Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Picnic area A: 7.4 mi
- Nokes Hill: 5.2 mi
- Hunting Hill: 7.1 mi
- Black Hill: 8.2 mi
- Prospect Hill: 8.7 mi
- Stony Hill: 10.5 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 15.1 mi
- Silver Spring: 17.1 mi
- Sandy Spring: 17.2 mi
- Kanawha Spring: 17.4 mi
- Takoma Spring: 18.7 mi
- Great Falls: 6.5 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 9.9 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 10.1 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 12.4 mi
- Coe Creek: 23.8 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 7.8 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 7.9 mi
- Fishing Shore: 16.7 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 18.3 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 20.2 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 20.3 mi
- Truck Rest Area: 21.6 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 16.4 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 16.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bretton Woods Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short Hill Mountain | NW 304° | 441 m | 24.4 mi |
| Signal Mountain | WSW 237° | 413 m | 24.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NNW 345° | 387 m | 13.6 mi |
| White Rock | WSW 237° | 387 m | 24.0 mi |
| Chestnut Peak | SW 236° | 374 m | 22.9 mi |
| Waterford Peak | WNW 301° | 361 m | 15.3 mi |
| Pine Rock | NNW 327° | 346 m | 20.0 mi |
| Bald Mountain | NW 308° | 235 m | 16.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:09 | 16:51 |
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, 10 mi away.
- Kiwi Bubbles267 obs
- Virginia bluebells252 obs
- Great Blue Heron247 obs
- common pawpaw213 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty201 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander178 obs
- Powdered Dancer169 obs
- cut-leaved toothwort163 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/358251791
Day trips start here
- Great Falls · 6 mi
- Gaithersburg · 7 mi
- Potomac · 7 mi
- Sterling · 7 mi
- Germantown · 8 mi
- Herndon · 8 mi
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