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Hill Road Recreation Center

Hill Road Recreation Center from directly overhead

Hill Road Recreation Center is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 52 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Hill Road Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 0.3 miles off. 33 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
52 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.90762, -76.85517

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • East Capitol Urban Farm: 3.5 mi
  • Deanwood Garden: 4.2 mi
  • IDEA Academy garden: 4.4 mi
  • Ex Garden Future & MTB Pump Track: 5.3 mi
  • Asian Collections: 5.4 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
  • John Gould Stephenson: 6.8 mi
  • Hoover family: 6.8 mi
  • David Walker: 6.8 mi
  • John Smilie: 6.8 mi
  • Nathaniel Hazard: 6.8 mi
Picnic sites: 56
Peaks: 33
Beaches: 20
Cliffs: 11
Springs: 5
  • Indian Springs: 6.7 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 9.3 mi
  • Silver Spring: 10.9 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 12.9 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 18.3 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Stubblefield Falls: 18.8 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 19.1 mi
  • Great Falls: 22.3 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 23.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillW 274°156 m20.3 mi
Hunting HillWNW 304°156 m22.1 mi
Mount DanielW 268°144 m17.6 mi
Minor's HillW 269°140 m16.3 mi
Freedom HillW 273°140 m20.9 mi
Prout HillW 264°137 m18.2 mi
Upton HillW 262°125 m15.8 mi
Point RenoWNW 285°123 m12.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4419:20
June solstice05:4319:5720:37
September equinox06:5618:3119:06
December solstice07:2316:0716:49

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543546372777668564537

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glenn Dale Bell STN, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Domestic Cat35 obs
  • Common Box Turtle29 obs
  • Northern Cardinal27 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel24 obs
  • American Robin18 obs
  • purple pitcher plant16 obs
  • House Sparrow15 obs
  • White-tailed Deer14 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/358253298

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