Taft Recreation Center
Taft Recreation Center is a park, at a recorded elevation of 24 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Dwight A. Moseley Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 2.6 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 24 m
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 5.5 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 5.7 mi off the Booth's Escape
- 9.3 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Dwight A. Moseley Park: 0.0 mi
- Barnard Hill: 0.5 mi
- Barnard Hill Park: 0.5 mi
- Fort Bunker Hill Park: 0.6 mi
- Chuck Brown Park: 0.6 mi
- Franciscan Monastery Garden: 0.3 mi
- Bunker Hill Elementary School Rain Garden: 0.6 mi
- Mount Rainier Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Montana Garden: 1.0 mi
- Mary's Garden: 1.3 mi
- Stations Of The Cross, II: 0.4 mi
- Stations Of The Cross, I: 0.4 mi
- Stations Of The Cross, III: 0.4 mi
- Stations Of The Cross, IV: 0.4 mi
- Stations Of The Cross, V: 0.4 mi
- Peace Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Fort Bunker Hill Plaque: 0.5 mi
- Allison "Allie" Hart: 0.6 mi
- Armando Martinez-Ramos: 0.8 mi
- United Brick Corporation Brick Company: 1.4 mi
- Washington Union Station: 3.1 mi
- Emancipation Hall: 3.6 mi
- United States Capitol: 3.6 mi
- John Smilie: 3.7 mi
- Elbridge Gerry: 3.7 mi
- Picnic Grove 29: 3.2 mi
- Picnic Grove 23: 3.5 mi
- Picnic Grove 24: 3.6 mi
- Picnic Grove 3: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Grove 5: 3.8 mi
- Fort Mahan Park: 3.3 mi
- Fort Chaplin Park: 3.8 mi
- Reservation 630: 4.4 mi
- Soapstone Valley: 4.4 mi
- Little Forest Park: 4.7 mi
- Mount Saint Sepulchre: 0.4 mi
- Hoover Hill: 0.4 mi
- Barnard Hill: 0.5 mi
- Bunker Hill: 0.6 mi
- Round Hill: 0.9 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 11.6 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 12.8 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 20.1 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 20.1 mi
- Wiona Cliffs: 24.3 mi
- Fishing Shore: 6.6 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 11.0 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 14.4 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 14.5 mi
- Herald Harbor Beach 1: 23.3 mi
- Takoma Spring: 3.0 mi
- Silver Spring: 4.6 mi
- Indian Springs: 6.3 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 6.4 mi
- Sandy Spring: 14.3 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 11.9 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 12.3 mi
- Great Falls: 15.4 mi
- Cascade Falls: 24.2 mi
- Wilson: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Taft Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | W 267° | 156 m | 13.7 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NW 311° | 156 m | 15.7 mi |
| Black Hill | NW 315° | 148 m | 24.5 mi |
| Mount Daniel | WSW 257° | 144 m | 11.3 mi |
| Minor's Hill | WSW 257° | 140 m | 10.0 mi |
| Freedom Hill | W 267° | 140 m | 14.3 mi |
| Prout Hill | WSW 252° | 137 m | 12.1 mi |
| Upton Hill | WSW 245° | 125 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:57 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:08 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 39 | 46 | 57 | 67 | 76 | 80 | 79 | 72 | 59 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Natl Arboretum DC, 2 mi away.
- Northern Mockingbird212 obs
- American Robin201 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel198 obs
- White-tailed Deer191 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee169 obs
- Domestic Cat162 obs
- House Sparrow149 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee148 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358959514
Day trips start here
- Mount Rainier · 1 mi
- Hyattsville · 2 mi
- Washington, D.C./Near Northeast · 2 mi
- Takoma Park · 3 mi
- Washington, D.C./Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights · 3 mi
- Washington, D.C./Brookland-Petworth-Takoma · 3 mi
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