Fort Slocum Park
Fort Slocum Park is a park, at a modelled elevation of 75 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Legacy Memorial Park, a park 0.4 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 5.1 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 5.1 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 7.5 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 7.9 mi off the Booth's Escape
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Legacy Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
- Rudolph: 0.5 mi
- Takoma Community Center: 0.6 mi
- Keene Field: 0.6 mi
- Lamond: 0.6 mi
- Leave No One Behind: 0.4 mi
- Playing In The Fields Of Lamond: 0.6 mi
- Roscoe: 1.0 mi
- From a Model to a Rainbow: 1.0 mi
- (Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson: 1.4 mi
- Whittier Garden: 0.5 mi
- Mamie D. Lee Garden: 0.6 mi
- Emery Garden: 0.7 mi
- Takoma Recreational Center Garden: 0.7 mi
- TPPC Native Plant Garden: 1.2 mi
- Scale model of Fort Stevens: 0.9 mi
- Lincoln under fire at Fort Stevens: 0.9 mi
- Fort Stevens Park: 0.9 mi
- Aray Zikie: 0.9 mi
- Adams Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Picnic Grove 23: 1.4 mi
- Picnic Grove 24: 1.5 mi
- Picnic Grove 5: 1.5 mi
- Picnic Grove 22: 1.6 mi
- Picnic Grove 8: 1.7 mi
- Little Forest Park: 2.4 mi
- Pinehurst Parkway: 2.6 mi
- Soapstone Valley: 2.6 mi
- Dartmouth Neighborhood Conservation Area: 2.8 mi
- Reservation 630: 2.9 mi
- Tiger Tracks: 2.8 mi
- Komodo Dragon: 2.8 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 2.8 mi
- False Gavial: 2.8 mi
- Chinese alligator: 2.8 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.2 mi
- Mount Saint Sepulchre: 2.2 mi
- Linnean Hill: 2.6 mi
- Round Hill: 2.7 mi
- Hoover Hill: 2.8 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 13.0 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 14.3 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 18.0 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 18.0 mi
- Quarry (former): 24.1 mi
- Takoma Spring: 1.0 mi
- Silver Spring: 2.2 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 3.8 mi
- Indian Springs: 7.0 mi
- Sandy Spring: 12.4 mi
- Fishing Shore: 5.6 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 10.7 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 12.2 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 12.3 mi
- Herald Harbor Beach 1: 24.7 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 9.8 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 10.2 mi
- Great Falls: 13.1 mi
- Cascade Falls: 23.9 mi
- Coe Creek: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fort Slocum Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | WSW 258° | 156 m | 12.0 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NW 311° | 156 m | 13.1 mi |
| Black Hill | NW 316° | 148 m | 21.9 mi |
| Mount Daniel | WSW 244° | 144 m | 10.1 mi |
| Minor's Hill | WSW 243° | 140 m | 8.7 mi |
| Freedom Hill | WSW 258° | 140 m | 12.6 mi |
| Prout Hill | WSW 240° | 137 m | 11.1 mi |
| Upton Hill | SW 230° | 125 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:08 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 39 | 46 | 57 | 67 | 76 | 80 | 79 | 72 | 59 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Natl Arboretum DC, 4 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer399 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel384 obs
- Christmas fern306 obs
- American Robin291 obs
- lesser celandine235 obs
- American beech224 obs
- Amur honeysuckle198 obs
- Northern Cardinal195 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/41965097
Day trips start here
- Takoma Park · 1 mi
- Washington, D.C./Brookland-Petworth-Takoma · 1 mi
- Silver Spring · 2 mi
- Capital Region · 3 mi
- Hyattsville · 3 mi
- Mount Rainier · 3 mi
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