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Fort Smallwood Park

Fort Smallwood Park from directly overhead

Fort Smallwood Park is a park in Maryland, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Ivy Hill stands 200 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Rock Creek Park, a park 1.7 miles away. National Historic Seaport passes 8.8 miles off. 25 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates39.16310, -76.48126

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rock Creek Park: 1.7 mi
  • Poplar Ridge Park: 1.8 mi
  • Hancocks Resolution Park: 2.7 mi
  • Tick Neck Park: 2.9 mi
  • Queens Park Play Area: 3.1 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions: 60
Gardens
Museums
Peaks: 25
  • Eagle Hill: 5.1 mi
  • Tank Hill: 7.6 mi
  • Mount Misery: 7.8 mi
  • German Hill: 8.2 mi
  • Federal Hill: 10.6 mi
Beaches: 24
Picnic sites: 14
Cliffs: 10
  • Wiona Cliffs: 9.8 mi
  • Quarry (former): 17.7 mi
  • Quarry (former): 17.8 mi
  • Quarry (former): 17.9 mi
  • Balancing Reservoir Spillway: 18.0 mi
Springs: 4
  • Crises Spring: 14.1 mi
  • Mountain Pass Spring: 14.2 mi
  • Marble Springs: 18.1 mi
  • Indian Springs: 24.8 mi
Waterfalls: 3
Lighthouses: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ivy HillNNW 333°200 m22.9 mi
Oregon RidgeNNW 334°191 m24.9 mi
Chestnut HillWNW 299°169 m19.2 mi
Abell RidgeNNW 335°155 m19.0 mi
Satyr HillNNW 349°151 m17.0 mi
Cherry HillN 5°149 m21.8 mi
Cub HillN 353°147 m17.4 mi
Luskins HillNNW 344°144 m17.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4319:18
June solstice05:4119:5620:36
September equinox06:5418:2919:05
December solstice07:2316:0516:47

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F373947586777827973615041
Precip in3.12.83.93.53.43.44.74.34.53.53.03.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Maryland SCI CTR, 11 mi away.

  • Osprey57 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird49 obs
  • Canada Goose45 obs
  • Mallard42 obs
  • Great Blue Heron40 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull35 obs
  • Northern Cardinal31 obs
  • European Starling30 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/286983342

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