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Wills Memorial Park

Wills Memorial Park from directly overhead

Wills Memorial Park is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 56 m. Good Hope Hill stands 84 m to the north, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Clark Run Nature Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Religious Freedom Byway passes 1.8 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
56 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.51969, -76.97877

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Boarman Memorial: 7.0 mi
  • Saint Francis of Assisi: 7.0 mi
  • Marshall Hall: 13.1 mi
  • Belvoir Manor: 13.7 mi
  • Slave Memorial: 14.2 mi
Nature reserves: 52
Artworks: 52
Attractions: 39
  • Mansion Circle/Specialty Tours: 14.3 mi
  • Mansion Line Entry: 14.3 mi
  • George Washington's Mount Vernon: 14.3 mi
  • Historic Area Entrance & Exit: 14.4 mi
  • George Washington's Distillery and Gristmill Tour: 15.7 mi
Museums: 35
Gardens: 18
  • Fruit Garden & Nursery: 14.3 mi
  • Lower Garden: 14.3 mi
  • Upper Garden: 14.3 mi
  • Garden Mulch Supply: 15.0 mi
  • Woodlawn Plantation Garden: 16.1 mi
Picnic sites: 13
  • Enchanted Pond Picnic Areas (4): 15.5 mi
  • Veterans Park: 16.8 mi
  • Picnic Table: 18.5 mi
  • Treehouse: 18.9 mi
  • Patuxent Park Pavillion: 21.6 mi
Peaks: 8
  • Rose Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Ellenboro Hill: 7.9 mi
  • Bunker Hill: 8.3 mi
  • Ravens Crest: 9.0 mi
  • Stretchmark Hill: 12.6 mi
Beaches: 8
Cliffs: 7
Rest areas: 2
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area North: 18.9 mi
  • Dale City Car-Only Safety Rest Area South: 19.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Good Hope HillN 2°84 m24.1 mi
Bald Eagle HillN 355°51 m20.9 mi
Rose HillW 271°48 m2.7 mi
Stretchmark HillW 263°44 m12.6 mi
Shooters HillNNW 346°44 m20.7 mi
Bunker HillS 177°38 m8.3 mi
Ellenboro HillS 176°37 m7.9 mi
Ravens CrestS 181°30 m9.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4519:5620:36
September equinox06:5618:3219:07
December solstice07:2316:0916:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353744556371767467564638
Precip in3.33.04.23.34.34.24.64.84.94.23.34.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mechanicsville 5 NE, 14 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American persimmon21 obs
  • winged euonymus17 obs
  • American trumpet vine16 obs
  • American pokeweed14 obs
  • Common Box Turtle13 obs
  • Monarch13 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail13 obs
  • Japanese barberry12 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 way/273730030

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