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Know Waste Lands Community Garden

Know Waste Lands Community Garden from directly overhead

Know Waste Lands Community Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 14 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Leah E. Sylvain, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.1 miles off. 55 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built
2014
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.69781, -73.92599
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
Gardens
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Peaks: 55
  • Laurel Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.7 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 3.4 mi
Picnic sites: 44
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.9 mi
  • Palisades: 7.0 mi
  • Palisades: 8.4 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.4 mi
  • Palisades: 13.4 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.5 mi
  • The Loch: 6.9 mi
  • The Falls: 13.9 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Know Waste Lands Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 323°268 m23.6 mi
Beech MountainNW 322°260 m24.7 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 322°230 m23.4 mi
Mount NeboN 360°208 m24.3 mi
Moon HillNW 321°180 m24.7 mi
Stony HillWNW 296°179 m18.4 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 285°175 m19.7 mi
Packanack MountainNW 314°144 m23.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly478 obs
  • tree-of-heaven408 obs
  • common mugwort315 obs
  • Rock Pigeon269 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee264 obs
  • princess tree212 obs
  • white snakeroot192 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee182 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/313991913

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