Mount Alto
Mount Alto is a peak in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic and has an elevation of 351 feet. Mount Alto is situated nearby to the suburb Glover Park, as well as near the neighborhood Massachusetts Avenue Heights.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 351 feet
- Description: mountain in District of Columbia, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mt. Alto” and “Red Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Number One Observatory Circle and St. Nicholas Cathedral.
Number One Observatory Circle
Government office
Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the vice president of the United States. Located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., it is sometimes informally referred to simply as "the Naval Observatory".
St. Nicholas Cathedral
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is the primatial cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America and the seat of Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America.
Dumbarton Oaks Estate
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glover Park and Massachusetts Avenue Heights.
Glover Park
Suburb
Photo: Nathanael Greene, Public domain.
Glover Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle.
Massachusetts Avenue Heights
Neighborhood
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Massachusetts Heights is a small neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., dominated by the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral. The neighborhood is bounded to the north by Woodley Road, to the southwest by Massachusetts Avenue, to the east by 34th Street NW, and to the west by Wisconsin Avenue.
Cathedral Heights
Neighborhood
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Cathedral Heights is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. Primarily residential, the neighborhood has a commercial corridor of shops and restaurants along Wisconsin Avenue.
Mount Alto
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.92372° or 38° 55′ 25″ northLongitude
-77.0747° or 77° 4′ 29″ westElevation
351 feet (107 metres)Open location code
87C4WWFG+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 358957912OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Mount Alto” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Alto”
- Dutch: “Mount Alto”
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