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Hunters Mill Recreation Area

Hunters Mill Recreation Area from directly overhead

Hunters Mill Recreation Area is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 43 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Rose Valley Park, a park 1.2 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 3.9 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
43 m
Getting there

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Coordinates38.76289, -76.97747

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Attractions
Historic sites
  • Fort Foote: 2.8 mi
  • Plaque marking the establishment of Saint Ignatius Catholic Church in 1849: 2.9 mi
  • Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial: 4.5 mi
  • Duvall's Tavern: 4.6 mi
  • Alexandria War Memorial: 5.5 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Simpson Gardens: 5.8 mi
  • Upper Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Lower Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Fruit Garden & Nursery: 7.1 mi
  • Chapel Garden: 7.3 mi
Picnic sites: 59
Peaks: 34
Beaches: 9
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 10.9 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 12.1 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 20.7 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 20.7 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 22.3 mi
Cliffs: 6
Springs: 4
  • Takoma Spring: 14.6 mi
  • Silver Spring: 15.9 mi
  • Indian Springs: 17.0 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 17.0 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Stubblefield Falls: 18.4 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 18.6 mi
  • Coe Creek: 21.0 mi
  • Great Falls: 22.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 21.5 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 21.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillNW 309°156 m17.7 mi
Mount DanielNW 310°144 m14.4 mi
Minor's HillNW 315°140 m13.8 mi
Freedom HillNW 308°140 m18.1 mi
Prout HillNW 305°137 m14.2 mi
Upton HillNW 310°125 m11.9 mi
Point RenoNNW 338°123 m14.1 mi
Spy HillNW 310°114 m11.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4419:5720:37
September equinox06:5618:3219:07
December solstice07:2316:0816:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363845566574787770584840
Precip in3.12.94.03.44.54.95.04.24.43.83.13.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oxon Hill, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Box Turtle11 obs
  • American sweetgum8 obs
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue8 obs
  • American trumpet vine7 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle6 obs
  • Beech Leaf Disease6 obs
  • White-tailed Deer5 obs
  • ground-ivy5 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/358253513

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