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Dickerson Recreation Center

Dickerson Recreation Center from directly overhead

Dickerson Recreation Center is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 101 m. Lambs Knoll stands 536 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Dickerson Local Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Antietam Campaign Byway runs past it. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
101 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.21760, -77.42165

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Dickerson Local Park: 0.0 mi
  • Monocacy Natural Resources Area: 1.9 mi
  • Behrend Park: 4.1 mi
  • Elgin Park: 4.4 mi
  • Lori Gore Park: 4.5 mi
Attractions
Artworks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Earl's Picnic Spot: 7.8 mi
  • Norwood Tobacco Barn: 8.4 mi
  • Eastalco: 8.4 mi
  • Icehouse: 8.6 mi
  • Well House: 8.7 mi
Museums: 58
  • Mooseum: 7.6 mi
  • Winmill Carriage Museum: 9.6 mi
  • Gov. Westmoreland Davis Home: 9.7 mi
  • Loudoun Museum: 10.5 mi
  • Lovettsville Museum: 12.2 mi
Gardens: 56
Peaks: 44
Picnic sites: 24
  • Nolands Ferry: 3.9 mi
  • Blue Sky Park: 8.7 mi
  • Chickadee Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
  • Pines Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
  • Quail Ridge: 10.5 mi
Springs: 8
Waterfalls: 5
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 17.3 mi
  • Great Falls: 17.7 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 20.9 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 21.0 mi
  • Old Dam Waterfall: 23.0 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Sycamore Beach: 18.9 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 19.0 mi
  • Shenandoah Lake Beach: 21.0 mi
  • River Access: 24.7 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Truck Rest Area: 16.1 mi
  • South Mountain Welcome Center: 23.3 mi
  • South Mountain Welcome Center: 23.6 mi
Cliffs: 3
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lambs KnollNW 326°536 m19.4 mi
Lambs KnollNW 326°536 m19.4 mi
Pine KnobNNW 337°518 m24.3 mi
High KnobNNW 347°472 m17.4 mi
Monument KnobNNW 331°468 m22.3 mi
NeersvilleW 274°467 m18.8 mi
Maryland HeightsWNW 299°444 m17.9 mi
Raven RocksWSW 257°443 m22.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4719:22
June solstice05:4420:0020:40
September equinox06:5818:3319:09
December solstice07:2616:0816:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323442536371757467564537
Precip in3.43.04.03.64.44.74.54.24.84.03.53.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Damascus 3 SSW, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • common pawpaw24 obs
  • American Toad16 obs
  • blue phlox16 obs
  • Greenside Darter15 obs
  • Common Box Turtle14 obs
  • Virginia bluebells13 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail13 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty13 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358251559

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