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Joe Holzka Community Garden

Joe Holzka Community Garden from directly overhead

Joe Holzka Community Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Corporal Thompson Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.63464, -74.12169

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Anchor: 1.1 mi
  • Icon II: 1.2 mi
  • NEAKA: 1.2 mi
  • Wingdale: 1.4 mi
  • St. Anthony: 2.4 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Signal Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Todt Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Park Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Fox Hills: 2.7 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Picnic sites: 42
Waterfalls: 13
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 11.9 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Palisades: 8.6 mi
  • Palisades: 10.7 mi
  • Hawk Hill: 12.1 mi
  • Palisades: 13.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 16.3 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 12.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Joe Holzka Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainN 350°268 m23.6 mi
Mount CecchinoN 350°230 m23.2 mi
Sugar LoafWNW 295°229 m23.6 mi
Gillespie HillWNW 297°217 m22.8 mi
Mount KembleWNW 294°215 m22.8 mi
Kinneys HillWNW 300°180 m22.1 mi
Stony HillNNW 333°179 m13.8 mi
Mayapple HillNW 318°175 m12.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2619:5020:32
September equinox06:4518:1918:55
December solstice07:1815:4916:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 4 mi away.

  • Porcelain Berry201 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly167 obs
  • Mallard155 obs
  • American Robin124 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel117 obs
  • Pond Slider109 obs
  • white snakeroot108 obs
  • Wild Turkey103 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/35578671

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