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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Hermitage Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hermitage Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Hermitage Park:
    • 39.079553, -77.063867
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Hermitage Park
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
    • Since Hermitage Park is near Prince George's County and also Howard County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Prince George's County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Howard County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Hermitage Park

Communities Also Named Hermitage Park ...

We found one communities that are also named Hermitage Park.

Within Maryland, the name Hermitage Park is unique.

Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Hermitage Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Henrico County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hermitage Park [Henrico County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hermitage Park ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • English Manor
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • English Manor is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Manor
  • Foxhall
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Foxhall is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxhall
  • Gayfields
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Gayfields is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gayfields
  • Glenallen
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Glenallen is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenallen
  • Harmony Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Harmony Hills is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Hills
  • Holiday Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Holiday Park is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Park
  • Homecrest
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Homecrest is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homecrest
  • Lutes
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Lutes is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutes
  • Manor Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Manor Park is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Park
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Manor Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Manor Village is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Village
    • Randolph Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Randolph Hills is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph Hills
    • Rock Creek Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Rock Creek Village is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Village
    • Springwood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Springwood is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springwood
    • Stoney Brook
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Stoney Brook is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Brook
    • Sycamore Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Sycamore Creek is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sycamore Creek

How Far From Hermitage Park to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Hermitage Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Hermitage Park and extending to:

  • Rockville, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies just to the West.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 31 miles [49.9 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Hermitage Park to Annapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 12 miles [19.3 km] to the south (S). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,891 miles [9,480.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,597 miles [10,616.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,473 miles [7,198.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Hermitage Park could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hermitage Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Hermitage Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hermitage Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0796, Longitude: -77.0639       In this case, the coordinates for Hermitage Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.894 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.472 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.655 degrees.