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Flower Hill Park

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Flower Hill Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 160 m. Sugarloaf Mountain stands 387 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Flower Hill Local Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 7.2 miles off. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
160 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.16031, -77.17064

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Flower Hill Local Park: 0.1 mi
  • Nike Missile Local Park: 0.4 mi
  • Johnson Local Park: 0.6 mi
  • Strawberry Knoll Park: 0.8 mi
  • Strawberry Knoll Local Park: 0.8 mi
Nature reserves
  • Mineral Springs Neighborhood Conservation Area: 0.8 mi
  • Lois Y. Green Conservation Park: 1.1 mi
  • Goshen Elm Conservation Park: 1.3 mi
  • Washington Grove Forest Preserve - East Woods: 1.3 mi
  • Asbury "Wildlife at Work" Protected Habitat: 1.5 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Celebración: 3.3 mi
  • Hayley's World: 3.3 mi
  • Fruit Mural: 3.3 mi
  • Cosmic Coffee: 3.3 mi
  • Synergy: 3.4 mi
Attractions
  • Carousel at Rio: 3.3 mi
  • Oakley Cabin: 5.5 mi
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: 5.6 mi
  • Cabin John Station: 8.8 mi
  • Lock 22: Pennyfield Lock: 9.7 mi
Gardens
Picnic sites
  • Oriole Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
  • Pines Picnic Area: 4.4 mi
  • Chickadee Picnic Area: 4.6 mi
  • Quail Ridge: 4.7 mi
  • Blue Sky Park: 7.3 mi
Peaks: 42
Cliffs: 6
Springs: 6
  • Sandy Spring: 8.2 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 12.5 mi
  • Silver Spring: 14.0 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 15.7 mi
  • Indian Springs: 18.5 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • Great Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 13.4 mi
  • McKeldin Falls: 20.1 mi
  • Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 22.8 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Sycamore Beach: 12.9 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 12.9 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 17.7 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 21.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Truck Rest Area: 14.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugarloaf MountainWNW 301°387 m13.9 mi
Waterford PeakW 275°361 m21.6 mi
Pine RockWNW 299°346 m22.1 mi
Bald MountainW 281°235 m21.7 mi
Hogback MountainW 259°187 m23.8 mi
Chestnut HillENE 65°169 m22.1 mi
Hunting HillSSW 196°156 m5.4 mi
Gantt HillSSW 192°156 m16.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4319:5920:39
September equinox06:5718:3219:08
December solstice07:2516:0816:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353745566573787669574739
Precip in3.12.63.73.23.54.04.03.14.03.53.33.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rockville 1 NE, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer209 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel178 obs
  • Red Fox167 obs
  • Northern Cardinal90 obs
  • Canada Goose81 obs
  • Great Blue Heron65 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron64 obs
  • Eastern Bluebird60 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/358251660

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