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Garden in the Park

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Garden in the Park from directly overhead

Garden in the Park is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 3.1 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Edgewater Park

How to reach it

Coordinates40.82404, -73.81289

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Shamrock: 0.4 mi
  • Dolphin: 2.1 mi
  • War Memorial: 2.7 mi
  • Wilhelm Tell: 2.7 mi
  • Mariner Monument: 2.9 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Attractions
Beaches
  • Glen Island: 4.4 mi
  • Parsons Beach: 4.7 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 5.6 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 5.7 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 5.7 mi
Peaks
  • Janes Hill: 5.2 mi
  • Marble Hill: 6.3 mi
  • Vault Hill: 6.6 mi
  • Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 6.7 mi
  • Queens High Point: 6.7 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 19
Waterfalls: 9
  • The Falls: 4.7 mi
  • The Loch: 7.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 14.0 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Garden in the Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillN 0°211 m19.8 mi
Mount NeboNNW 339°208 m16.6 mi
Reynolds HillN 7°180 m19.6 mi
Round HillNNE 21°172 m20.6 mi
Cooney HillNNE 12°170 m19.6 mi
Kennelwood HillN 10°156 m17.1 mi
Kykuit HillN 355°147 m18.4 mi
Beaver HillN 357°140 m16.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343642536373787770584839
Precip in3.73.24.43.94.14.64.44.84.64.13.44.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 2 mi away.

  • common mugwort2,294 obs
  • groundsel tree133 obs
  • common reed79 obs
  • tree-of-heaven53 obs
  • white snakeroot53 obs
  • ribwort plantain51 obs
  • common dandelion42 obs
  • Saltmarsh Cordgrass42 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1093161997

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