Takoma Recreation Center
Takoma Recreation Center is a park, at a recorded elevation of 71 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Takoma Recreational Center Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 5.6 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 71 m
How to reach it
- 5.6 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 5.6 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 7.5 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 8.6 mi off the Booth's Escape
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Takoma Recreational Center Garden: 0.0 mi
- Whittier Garden: 0.3 mi
- TPPC Native Plant Garden: 0.5 mi
- Takoma Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Emery Garden: 0.9 mi
- Takoma Community Center: 0.2 mi
- Ward Sinclair Plaza: 0.3 mi
- Takoma Urban Park: 0.4 mi
- Thomas Siegler Historic Site: 0.5 mi
- Lamond: 0.5 mi
- From a Model to a Rainbow: 0.3 mi
- Roscoe: 0.4 mi
- Playing In The Fields Of Lamond: 0.5 mi
- Leave No One Behind: 1.0 mi
- The Silver Pass: 1.4 mi
- 150th Ohio National Guard Monument: 0.5 mi
- 122nd New York Volunteer Mounment: 0.5 mi
- 98th Pennsylvania Volunteer Monument: 0.5 mi
- 25th New York Volunteer Cavelry Monument: 0.5 mi
- Scale model of Fort Stevens: 0.8 mi
- Picnic Grove 9: 1.3 mi
- Picnic Grove 8: 1.3 mi
- Picnic Grove 10: 1.3 mi
- Picnic Grove 5: 1.5 mi
- Picnic Grove 22: 1.6 mi
- Dartmouth Neighborhood Conservation Area: 2.1 mi
- Pinehurst Parkway: 2.2 mi
- Little Forest Park: 2.3 mi
- Soapstone Valley: 2.8 mi
- Hastings Neighborhood Conservation Area: 3.0 mi
- Komodo Dragon: 3.2 mi
- False Gavial: 3.2 mi
- Red-Bellied Turtle: 3.2 mi
- Chinese alligator: 3.2 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 3.2 mi
- Mount Saint Sepulchre: 2.8 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.9 mi
- Linnean Hill: 3.0 mi
- Hoover Hill: 3.3 mi
- Barnard Hill: 3.3 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 13.7 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 15.0 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 17.3 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 17.3 mi
- Quarry (former): 23.5 mi
- Takoma Spring: 0.7 mi
- Silver Spring: 1.5 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 3.2 mi
- Indian Springs: 6.9 mi
- Sandy Spring: 11.7 mi
- Fishing Shore: 5.9 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 11.1 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 12.0 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 12.1 mi
- Herald Harbor Beach 1: 24.7 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 9.6 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 10.0 mi
- Great Falls: 12.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Takoma Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | WSW 255° | 156 m | 12.0 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NW 309° | 156 m | 12.5 mi |
| Black Hill | NW 315° | 148 m | 21.3 mi |
| Mount Daniel | WSW 241° | 144 m | 10.2 mi |
| Minor's Hill | WSW 239° | 140 m | 8.9 mi |
| Freedom Hill | WSW 255° | 140 m | 12.6 mi |
| Prout Hill | WSW 237° | 137 m | 11.3 mi |
| Upton Hill | SW 226° | 125 m | 9.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| 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, 5 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer525 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel435 obs
- American Robin404 obs
- Christmas fern402 obs
- lesser celandine328 obs
- mayapple323 obs
- bloodroot290 obs
- American tuliptree274 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 way/48207489
Day trips start here
- Silver Spring · 1 mi
- Takoma Park · 1 mi
- Washington, D.C./Brookland-Petworth-Takoma · 1 mi
- Capital Region · 2 mi
- Mount Rainier · 3 mi
- Washington, D.C./Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights · 3 mi
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