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Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo from directly overhead

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 174 m. Quirauk Mountain stands 654 m to the north-northwest, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Ironmaster's House, a historic site 0.6 miles away. Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
174 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.59036, -77.42896

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Ironmaster's House: 0.6 mi
  • COVID-19 Memorial: 4.9 mi
  • Valley View Manor: 5.4 mi
  • Hamburg Lookout Tower: 6.1 mi
  • Old Cottage: 6.5 mi
Museums: 60
Peaks
Parks
  • Woodland Park: 2.2 mi
  • Thurmont Park: 2.3 mi
  • East End Park: 2.4 mi
  • Thurmont Memorial Park: 2.5 mi
  • Mechanicstown Square Park: 2.5 mi
Attractions: 42
  • Catoctin Furnace: 0.7 mi
  • Pumpkin Cannon: 2.6 mi
  • Walkersville Southern Railroad: 8.2 mi
  • The Great Frederick Fair: 12.4 mi
  • Children's Village of Washington County: 13.9 mi
Nature reserves: 25
Springs: 21
  • Spout Spring: 7.2 mi
  • Raven Rock Spring: 7.6 mi
  • Bootjack Spring: 8.8 mi
  • Annapolis Rock Spring: 9.3 mi
  • Fountaindale Spring: 10.4 mi
Artworks: 16
Picnic sites: 8
  • Chestnut Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
  • Owens Creek Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
  • Founder's Plaza: 7.5 mi
  • Public Grills & Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
  • Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Mason-Dixon Welcome Center: 10.2 mi
  • South Mountain Welcome Center: 10.2 mi
  • South Mountain Welcome Center: 10.3 mi
  • Truck Rest Area: 20.1 mi
  • I-81 Southbound West Virginia Welcome Center: 22.3 mi
Gardens: 3
  • Four Square Garden: 17.5 mi
  • 9-11 Memorial Garden: 18.4 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 22.8 mi
Waterfalls: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Cliffs: 2
Beaches: 1
  • Beach Front: 10.9 mi
Covered bridges: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.7 miles of Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Quirauk MountainNNW 329°654 m8.6 mi
Buzzard PeakN 352°593 m15.9 mi
Catoctin MountainNNW 334°572 m4.5 mi
Salamander RockWSW 253°562 m3.3 mi
High RockNW 326°559 m8.8 mi
Black RockW 263°549 m9.0 mi
Virginia RockN 352°545 m12.7 mi
Annapolis RockWSW 256°538 m9.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4619:22
June solstice05:4320:0120:41
September equinox06:5818:3319:09
December solstice07:2816:0716:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313342546370747266564536
Precip in3.83.04.44.04.94.23.74.05.34.13.73.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Catoctin MTN Park, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Five-lined Skink40 obs
  • pink lady's slipper35 obs
  • mountain laurel28 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle23 obs
  • wineberry23 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly23 obs
  • Solomon's plume21 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander20 obs

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/420401992

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