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Tantallon North Neighborhood Park

Tantallon North Neighborhood Park from directly overhead

Tantallon North Neighborhood Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 20 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Riverview Recreation Center, a park 0.5 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 1.6 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
20 m
Getting there

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Coordinates38.73178, -77.01220

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Fort Foote: 2.7 mi
  • Purple Heart Memorial: 4.2 mi
  • Slave Memorial: 4.5 mi
  • Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial: 4.8 mi
  • Duvall's Tavern: 5.4 mi
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Museums
Gardens
  • Upper Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Lower Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Fruit Garden & Nursery: 4.4 mi
  • Garden Mulch Supply: 5.8 mi
  • Simpson Gardens: 6.6 mi
Picnic sites: 60
Peaks: 36
Cliffs: 7
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 10.8 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 13.2 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 19.7 mi
  • Dolphin Beach: 19.8 mi
  • West Beach: 20.1 mi
Springs: 4
  • Takoma Spring: 16.7 mi
  • Silver Spring: 17.8 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 18.7 mi
  • Indian Springs: 19.6 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Coe Creek: 19.0 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 19.1 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 19.3 mi
  • Great Falls: 22.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 18.8 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 Tantallon North Neighborhood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillNW 318°156 m17.9 mi
Mount DanielNW 321°144 m14.7 mi
Minor's HillNNW 326°140 m14.2 mi
Freedom HillNW 317°140 m18.1 mi
Prout HillNW 317°137 m14.2 mi
Upton HillNW 324°125 m12.2 mi
Point RenoNNW 347°123 m15.6 mi
Spy HillNW 325°114 m11.6 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
  • Juniper Geometer Moth34 obs
  • Common Box Turtle30 obs
  • White-tailed Deer27 obs
  • common pawpaw23 obs
  • Black Vulture20 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit20 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty20 obs
  • White-dotted Prominent19 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/358253844

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