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Tantallon Park

Tantallon Park from directly overhead

Tantallon Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Potomac Landing Park, a park 0.5 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 2.6 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
17 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.72206, -76.99414

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Fort Foote: 3.7 mi
  • Purple Heart Memorial: 5.0 mi
  • Slave Memorial: 5.2 mi
  • Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial: 5.8 mi
  • Plaque marking the establishment of Saint Ignatius Catholic Church in 1849: 5.9 mi
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Upper Garden: 5.1 mi
  • Lower Garden: 5.1 mi
  • Fruit Garden & Nursery: 5.2 mi
  • Garden Mulch Supply: 6.6 mi
  • Simpson Gardens: 7.6 mi
Picnic sites: 59
Peaks: 36
Cliffs: 7
Beaches: 7
  • Lake Barcroft Beach: 12.0 mi
  • Fishing Shore: 14.2 mi
  • Beaver Landing: 20.4 mi
  • Dolphin Beach: 20.4 mi
  • West Beach: 20.7 mi
Springs: 4
  • Takoma Spring: 17.4 mi
  • Silver Spring: 18.6 mi
  • Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 19.5 mi
  • Indian Springs: 19.9 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Coe Creek: 20.0 mi
  • Stubblefield Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Scott's Run Falls: 20.4 mi
  • Great Falls: 23.6 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 19.3 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gantt HillNW 318°156 m19.0 mi
Mount DanielNW 320°144 m15.8 mi
Minor's HillNW 325°140 m15.3 mi
Freedom HillNW 316°140 m19.3 mi
Prout HillNW 316°137 m15.3 mi
Upton HillNW 322°125 m13.3 mi
Point RenoNNW 345°123 m16.5 mi
Spy HillNW 323°114 m12.8 mi

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.

  • Juniper Geometer Moth30 obs
  • Common Box Turtle24 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty21 obs
  • White-dotted Prominent20 obs
  • Green Cloverworm Moth19 obs
  • Red-lined Panopoda Moth17 obs
  • White-tailed Deer16 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth16 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/358245761

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