Blockhouse Point

Blockhouse Point is a cape in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Blockhouse Point is situated nearby to the area Seneca Breaks, as well as near the neighborhood Riverwood.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Riley’s Lock and Tobytown Park.

Riley’s Lock

River

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Riley's Lock and lock house are part of the 184.5-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that operated from the 1830s through 1923 along the Potomac River in the United States. Riley’s Lock is situated 1½ miles west of Blockhouse Point.

Tobytown Park

Park

Photo: Lorax, CC BY 4.0.

Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C.

Golf course

Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C. is an 800-acre private golf club in the eastern United States, at Lowes Island in Potomac Falls, Virginia, northwest of Washington, D.C. It is part of the Trump chain of golf clubs that includes clubs in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Bedminster. Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C. is situated 2 miles west of Blockhouse Point.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seneca and Lowes Island.

Seneca

Hamlet

Photo: Bohemian Baltimore, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Seneca is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is located near the intersection of River Road and Seneca Creek, not far from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Potomac River. Seneca is situated 2 miles northwest of Blockhouse Point.

Lowes Island

Village

Lowes Island is a census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lowes Island had a population of 11,023. Along with nearby Countryside and Cascades, it is considered one of the three main components of the Potomac Falls community. Lowes Island is situated 2½ miles southwest of Blockhouse Point.

Travilah

Town

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Travilah is a United States census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is 17.28 square miles located along the north side of the Potomac River, and surrounded by the communities of Potomac, North Potomac, and Darnestown—all census-designated places. Travilah is situated 2½ miles east of Blockhouse Point.

Blockhouse Point

Type: Cape
Category: landform
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.05983° or 39° 3′ 35″ north

Longitude

-77.31221° or 77° 18′ 44″ west

Elevation

295 feet (90 metres)

Open location code

87F43M5Q+W4

GeoNames ID

4348924

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