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Kelly Miller Recreation Center

Kelly Miller Recreation Center from directly overhead

Kelly Miller Recreation Center is a park, at a modelled elevation of 30 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Evans Recreation Center, a park 0.6 miles away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 1.3 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates38.89408, -76.93131

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Gardens
  • IDEA Academy garden: 0.8 mi
  • Deanwood Garden: 0.8 mi
  • East Capitol Urban Farm: 0.9 mi
  • Ex Garden Future & MTB Pump Track: 1.3 mi
  • Community Garden Plots (NPS): 1.6 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • John Gould Stephenson: 2.6 mi
  • David Walker: 2.6 mi
  • John Smilie: 2.6 mi
  • Nathaniel Hazard: 2.6 mi
  • Hoover family: 2.6 mi
Artworks
  • Gypsy: 2.8 mi
  • Balance: 3.1 mi
  • Dusk of H Street: 3.1 mi
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 3: 3.2 mi
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 8: 3.2 mi
Picnic sites
Peaks: 32
Beaches: 12
Cliffs: 8
Springs: 5
  • Takoma Spring: 6.8 mi
  • Indian Springs: 7.6 mi
  • Silver Spring: 8.4 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 10.2 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 17.7 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Stubblefield Falls: 15.1 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Great Falls: 18.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillW 278°156 m16.4 mi
Hunting HillNW 313°156 m19.5 mi
Mount DanielW 271°144 m13.5 mi
Minor's HillW 273°140 m12.2 mi
Freedom HillW 277°140 m16.9 mi
Prout HillW 266°137 m14.1 mi
Upton HillW 263°125 m11.7 mi
Point RenoWNW 297°123 m8.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4319:5720:37
September equinox06:5618:3119:07
December solstice07:2416:0816:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363946576776807972594941
Precip in3.02.84.03.44.34.64.63.74.14.23.23.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Natl Arboretum DC, 3 mi away.

  • Blue Dasher1,024 obs
  • Domestic Cat562 obs
  • Fragile Forktail393 obs
  • Great Egret375 obs
  • pickerelweed373 obs
  • Slaty Skimmer357 obs
  • Mallard345 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee318 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/48207628

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