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Mount Pleasant Playground

Mount Pleasant Playground from directly overhead

Mount Pleasant Playground is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 637 m. Big Savage Mountain stands 913 m to the southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is East End Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Mountain Maryland Byway runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
637 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.65500, -78.91753

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 59
Nature reserves: 23
Historic sites: 21
  • Brownsville/Park Avenue Monument: 0.7 mi
  • buisness lot: 1.8 mi
  • The Castle - built 1840: 3.3 mi
  • First Toll Gate House: 3.7 mi
  • Mason-Dixon marker: 4.8 mi
Museums: 19
Attractions: 5
Cliffs: 4
Picnic sites: 3
Artworks: 2
  • Art: 0.4 mi
  • Blind Skier and Camper Art Installation: 23.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
Beaches: 2
  • River Beach: 21.1 mi
  • Public River Access, Fishing: 23.1 mi
Springs: 1
  • Baughman Spring: 16.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Mount Pleasant Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big Savage MountainSW 231°913 m12.2 mi
High RockSW 231°910 m12.2 mi
Sampson RockN 351°895 m3.7 mi
Saint John RockWNW 289°890 m2.8 mi
Dans RockSSE 168°883 m5.2 mi
Little Savage MountainN 359°859 m5.2 mi
Elbow MountainWSW 239°859 m8.9 mi
Salt Block MountainW 276°854 m10.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5219:28
June solstice05:4920:0720:48
September equinox07:0418:3919:15
December solstice07:3416:1316:55

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262936485765696862514031
Precip in3.43.04.04.05.24.63.73.64.23.22.93.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Frostburg 2, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Robin53 obs
  • garlic mustard46 obs
  • dame's rocket44 obs
  • White-tailed Deer38 obs
  • American Goldfinch38 obs
  • Song Sparrow37 obs
  • Common Garter Snake30 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander29 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/358252302

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