Farm on hill by BQE
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Farm on hill by BQE is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Farm on other side of BQE, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.1 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Jackson Heights Beautification Group
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Farm on other side of BQE: 0.1 mi
- Moore Jackson Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- New Roots Community Garden Queens: 0.7 mi
- New Roots Community Garden Queens: 0.7 mi
- Rusty Wheelbarrow Farm: 0.8 mi
- Edward Hart Playground: 0.3 mi
- Sergeant Collins Triangle: 0.3 mi
- Pigeon Paradise: 0.3 mi
- Colonial/Montclair Greenspace: 0.4 mi
- Saint Michael's Playground: 0.4 mi
- Mahbuhay: 0.5 mi
- The Healer’s Touch: 0.8 mi
- Little Thailand: 0.8 mi
- 3 Squirrels: 0.9 mi
- Rocket: 1.3 mi
- Doughboy, WWI vets: 0.7 mi
- 9/11 woodside firefighters memorial: 0.8 mi
- Gorman Playground Plaque: 0.9 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Site of the Sunnyside Garden Arena: 1.4 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 0.9 mi
- Rocket Park: 2.4 mi
- Owl: 2.5 mi
- Canadian Lynx: 2.5 mi
- Domestic Animals: 2.5 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.4 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.4 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 1.9 mi
- The Noguchi Museum: 2.3 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 2.4 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 1.5 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.1 mi
- Janes Hill: 4.1 mi
- Vista Rock: 4.2 mi
- Mount Morris: 4.3 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.3 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.9 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 6.0 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 6.6 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 6.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.2 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.8 mi
- Bird Island: 6.6 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 7.3 mi
- Street Seats: 2.7 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.5 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.7 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 6.2 mi
- Palisades: 6.6 mi
- Palisades: 7.7 mi
- Palisades: 9.8 mi
- The Loch: 4.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.4 mi
- The Falls: 9.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.0 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 20.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 20.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.9 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 20.6 mi
- Barber: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Farm on hill by BQE. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 314° | 268 m | 21.7 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 313° | 260 m | 22.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 313° | 230 m | 21.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 356° | 208 m | 20.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 312° | 185 m | 23.3 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 312° | 180 m | 23.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 283° | 179 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 274° | 175 m | 20.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven506 obs
- Rock Pigeon274 obs
- House Sparrow163 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel155 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly135 obs
- Mourning Dove128 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle106 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee105 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/949250613
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 1 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 3 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
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