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Potomac Landing Park

Potomac Landing Park from directly overhead

Potomac Landing Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Tantallon Park, a park 0.5 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 2.2 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
16 m
Getting there

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Coordinates38.72012, -77.00275

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Fort Foote: 3.6 mi
  • Purple Heart Memorial: 4.5 mi
  • Slave Memorial: 4.8 mi
  • Marshall Hall: 5.7 mi
  • Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial: 5.7 mi
Attractions
Artworks
Museums
Gardens
  • Upper Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Lower Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Fruit Garden & Nursery: 4.7 mi
  • Garden Mulch Supply: 6.1 mi
  • Woodlawn Plantation Garden: 7.3 mi
Nature reserves
Picnic sites: 58
Peaks: 36
Cliffs: 7
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 11.8 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 14.1 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 19.9 mi
  • Dolphin Beach: 19.9 mi
  • West Beach: 20.2 mi
Springs: 4
  • Takoma Spring: 17.5 mi
  • Silver Spring: 18.7 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 19.6 mi
  • Indian Springs: 20.2 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Coe Creek: 19.5 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 20.1 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Great Falls: 23.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 18.9 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 18.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Potomac Landing Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillNW 319°156 m18.8 mi
Mount DanielNW 322°144 m15.6 mi
Minor's HillNNW 327°140 m15.2 mi
Freedom HillNW 317°140 m19.1 mi
Prout HillNW 318°137 m15.1 mi
Upton HillNW 324°125 m13.2 mi
Point RenoNNW 346°123 m16.5 mi
Spy HillNW 325°114 m12.6 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 solstice07:2316:0916:50

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, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Box Turtle37 obs
  • Juniper Geometer Moth34 obs
  • White-tailed Deer27 obs
  • common pawpaw26 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty26 obs
  • garlic mustard22 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit20 obs
  • White-dotted Prominent20 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/358253843

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