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Seat Pleasant Recreation Center

Seat Pleasant Recreation Center from directly overhead

Seat Pleasant Recreation Center is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Seat Pleasant Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 1.8 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
21 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.90150, -76.89886

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Seat Pleasant Park: 0.1 mi
  • Cabin Branch Park: 0.3 mi
  • Cedar Heights Park: 0.4 mi
  • Seat Pleasant Park: 0.5 mi
  • Peppermill Park: 0.8 mi
Gardens
  • East Capitol Urban Farm: 1.2 mi
  • Deanwood Garden: 1.9 mi
  • IDEA Academy garden: 2.0 mi
  • Ex Garden Future & MTB Pump Track: 3.0 mi
  • Asian Collections: 3.1 mi
Artworks
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 8: 4.1 mi
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 3: 4.1 mi
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 2: 4.1 mi
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 4: 4.1 mi
  • Between Earth and Sky - Number 6: 4.1 mi
Attractions
  • John Gould Stephenson: 4.4 mi
  • David Walker: 4.4 mi
  • John Smilie: 4.4 mi
  • Hoover family: 4.4 mi
  • Nathaniel Hazard: 4.4 mi
Picnic sites
Peaks: 32
Beaches: 17
Cliffs: 7
Springs: 5
  • Indian Springs: 6.8 mi
  • Takoma Spring: 7.6 mi
  • Silver Spring: 9.3 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 11.2 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 17.7 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Stubblefield Falls: 16.6 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 17.0 mi
  • Great Falls: 20.1 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillW 275°156 m18.0 mi
Hunting HillNW 308°156 m20.5 mi
Mount DanielW 269°144 m15.3 mi
Minor's HillW 271°140 m14.0 mi
Freedom HillW 275°140 m18.6 mi
Prout HillW 265°137 m15.9 mi
Upton HillW 262°125 m13.5 mi
Point RenoWNW 290°123 m10.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4319:5720:37
September equinox06:5618:3119:06
December solstice07:2316:0716:49

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, 4 mi away.

  • Domestic Cat318 obs
  • Common Box Turtle35 obs
  • Northern Cardinal27 obs
  • American sweetgum26 obs
  • white clover25 obs
  • Mourning Dove23 obs
  • Blue Jay21 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel20 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 node/358245717

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