Stratton Local Park
Stratton Local Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 101 m. Sugarloaf Mountain stands 387 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Price Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway passes 3.5 miles off. 38 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 101 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 3.5 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
- 4.1 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 5.3 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 12.7 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Stubblefield Falls Overlook · 5 mi
- Scott's Run Falls · 5 mi
- Overlook 1 · 6 mi
- Overlook 2 · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Price Park: 0.4 mi
- Sislen Park: 0.5 mi
- Fernwood Local Park: 0.7 mi
- Fernwood Park: 0.8 mi
- Wyngate Woods Park: 0.8 mi
- Ratner Museum: 0.9 mi
- Josiah Henson Museum: 1.8 mi
- KID Museum: 3.4 mi
- Clara Barton House: 3.7 mi
- Stonestreet Museum: 4.5 mi
- Cabin John Station: 1.1 mi
- Henry-Duffy Park: 2.2 mi
- Lock 8: 3.7 mi
- Lock 9: 3.7 mi
- Lock 10: 3.8 mi
- Inverness Forest Neighborhood Conservation Area: 1.6 mi
- Old Farm Neighborhood Conservation Area: 1.7 mi
- Charred Oak Neighborhood Conservation Area: 1.8 mi
- Windsor Neighborhood Conservation Area: 1.8 mi
- Locust Hill Neighborhood Park: 2.3 mi
- Sonata: 2.0 mi
- Tetra Con Brio: 2.0 mi
- Sky Horizon Sculpture: 2.2 mi
- Agio: 2.4 mi
- Inspire: 2.6 mi
- Ruins of Worker's Houses for Nearby Quarries: 2.4 mi
- The Centennial Anchor: 2.5 mi
- Newport Mills: 3.0 mi
- Photo captions: 3.3 mi
- World War II Memorial: 3.4 mi
- No Place Like Home: 3.1 mi
- Hawk Island: 3.4 mi
- Topaz House West Garden: 3.6 mi
- Topaz House East Garden: 3.6 mi
- Learning Garden: 4.0 mi
- Pond Classroom: 4.1 mi
- Carderock, Chesapeake & Ohio National Historic Park: 4.7 mi
- Spectator Area: 5.7 mi
- South Terrace: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Grove 10: 6.1 mi
- Hunting Hill: 5.4 mi
- Point Reno: 5.8 mi
- Prospect Hill: 6.5 mi
- Linnean Hill: 7.5 mi
- Mount Alto: 7.5 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 4.3 mi
- Silver Spring: 6.2 mi
- Takoma Spring: 7.9 mi
- Sandy Spring: 10.3 mi
- Indian Springs: 13.2 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 4.7 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 5.1 mi
- Great Falls: 6.4 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 21.1 mi
- Coe Creek: 23.6 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 6.1 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 6.2 mi
- Fishing Shore: 7.9 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 12.1 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 13.7 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 13.7 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 18.1 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 19.4 mi
- Truck Rest Area: 23.9 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 24.1 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Stratton Local Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NW 321° | 387 m | 21.6 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NW 324° | 156 m | 5.4 mi |
| Gantt Hill | SW 218° | 156 m | 8.3 mi |
| Black Hill | NW 323° | 148 m | 14.3 mi |
| Mount Daniel | SSW 196° | 144 m | 8.9 mi |
| Minor's Hill | S 188° | 140 m | 8.2 mi |
| Freedom Hill | SW 220° | 140 m | 8.8 mi |
| Prout Hill | SSW 197° | 137 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:08 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 37 | 45 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rockville 1 NE, 6 mi away.
- Pharaoh Cicada430 obs
- White-tailed Deer284 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel251 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail234 obs
- Eastern Tailed-Blue202 obs
- Northern Cardinal192 obs
- Christmas fern183 obs
- mayapple181 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/374791647
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