Glen Hills Park
Glen Hills Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 102 m. Sugarloaf Mountain stands 387 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Glen Hills Local Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 2.7 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 102 m
How to reach it
- 2.7 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 6.3 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 7.2 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 12.4 mi off the Antietam Campaign Byway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Glen Hills Local Park: 0.0 mi
- Gregerscroft Neighborhood Park: 0.9 mi
- Lambertina Park: 1.3 mi
- Fox Hills West Neighborhood Park: 1.4 mi
- Watts Branch Park: 1.5 mi
- Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure(2017) by Richard Serra: 2.0 mi
- Two Partially Buried Sinks (1985) by Robert Gober: 2.0 mi
- Contour 290 (2004) by Richard Serra: 2.1 mi
- Split Rocker (2000) by Jeff Koons: 2.2 mi
- Untitled (2005) by Ellsworth Kelly: 2.2 mi
- Glenstone Museum: 2.3 mi
- Stonestreet Museum: 3.1 mi
- Josiah Henson Museum: 5.0 mi
- Fire Museum: 5.3 mi
- Gaithersburg Community Museum: 5.3 mi
- Community Garden: 2.9 mi
- Glenview Mansion Garden: 4.6 mi
- Schwartz Peony Garden: 5.8 mi
- No Place Like Home: 7.3 mi
- Hawk Island: 7.8 mi
- Lock 21: Swains Lock: 3.0 mi
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: 3.6 mi
- Carousel at Rio: 3.6 mi
- Riverbend Park Nature Center: 3.8 mi
- Cabin John Station: 3.9 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 3.3 mi
- Montgomery County Public Safety Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Inspiration Park: 4.0 mi
- Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory: 4.9 mi
- Darnestown Confederate Visit: 5.4 mi
- Inverness Forest Neighborhood Conservation Area: 3.4 mi
- Lake Placid Dam: 3.4 mi
- Windsor Neighborhood Conservation Area: 3.4 mi
- Old Farm Neighborhood Conservation Area: 3.6 mi
- Crabbs Branch Stream Valley Park: 4.7 mi
- Quail Ridge: 5.6 mi
- Oriole Picnic Area: 5.8 mi
- Pines Picnic Area: 5.9 mi
- Chickadee Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
- Carderock, Chesapeake & Ohio National Historic Park: 6.5 mi
- Hunting Hill: 1.4 mi
- Prospect Hill: 7.0 mi
- Black Hill: 9.6 mi
- Gantt Hill: 9.8 mi
- Freedom Hill: 10.1 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 9.1 mi
- Silver Spring: 11.0 mi
- Sandy Spring: 11.3 mi
- Takoma Spring: 12.7 mi
- Indian Springs: 17.5 mi
- Great Falls: 5.3 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 6.8 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 6.8 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 18.1 mi
- Coe Creek: 24.8 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 6.1 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 6.1 mi
- Fishing Shore: 12.3 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 15.5 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 12.2 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 12.2 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 22.4 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 23.7 mi
- Truck Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 23.5 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Glen Hills Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NW 324° | 387 m | 16.8 mi |
| Waterford Peak | WNW 293° | 361 m | 21.2 mi |
| Pine Rock | NW 315° | 346 m | 24.4 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WNW 299° | 235 m | 22.0 mi |
| Hogback Mountain | W 276° | 187 m | 21.4 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NNE 25° | 156 m | 1.4 mi |
| Gantt Hill | S 187° | 156 m | 9.8 mi |
| Black Hill | NNW 330° | 148 m | 9.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:08 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 37 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rockville 1 NE, 4 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer206 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel173 obs
- Northern Cardinal152 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee151 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle106 obs
- Fantail Darter98 obs
- Eastern Blacknose Dace88 obs
- Red Fox86 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358251829
Day trips start here
- Potomac · 3 mi
- Rockville · 3 mi
- Gaithersburg · 5 mi
- Montgomery County · 5 mi
- Great Falls · 6 mi
- Bethesda · 8 mi
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