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Mary Livingston Ripley Garden

Mary Livingston Ripley Garden from directly overhead

Mary Livingston Ripley Garden is a park, at a recorded elevation of 7 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Spatial Concept: Nature, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 1.5 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.

belongs to Smithonian Institution

What the record says

Built
1988
Elevation
7 m

What to expect

Operated by
Smithsonian Gardens

How to reach it

Coordinates38.88826, -77.02374

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
Gardens
Nature reserves
Picnic sites
Peaks: 34
Springs: 5
  • Takoma Spring: 6.0 mi
  • Silver Spring: 7.0 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 8.0 mi
  • Indian Springs: 10.4 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 17.4 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Fishing Shore: 4.2 mi
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 7.3 mi
  • Purplehorse Beach: 13.3 mi
  • Sycamore Beach: 13.4 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Stubblefield Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 11.1 mi
  • Great Falls: 14.4 mi
  • Coe Creek: 21.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mary Livingston Ripley Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillWNW 283°156 m11.5 mi
Hunting HillNW 325°156 m16.5 mi
Mount DanielW 274°144 m8.6 mi
Minor's HillW 278°140 m7.3 mi
Freedom HillWNW 282°140 m12.0 mi
Prout HillW 267°137 m9.1 mi
Upton HillW 262°125 m6.7 mi
Point RenoNNW 327°123 m5.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4519:20
June solstice05:4419:5820:38
September equinox06:5618:3219:07
December solstice07:2416:0816:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384048586776817972615042
Precip in2.92.63.53.23.94.24.33.33.93.72.93.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Washington Reagan Natl AP, 3 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel2,507 obs
  • Mallard2,366 obs
  • European Starling1,849 obs
  • House Sparrow1,806 obs
  • Rock Pigeon1,261 obs
  • American Robin1,040 obs
  • Western Honey Bee628 obs
  • Canada Goose602 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/501285507

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