Mo' Pals
Mo' Pals is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 37 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Maggie's Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 2.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 1992
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Maggie's Garden: 0.1 mi
- Frank White Memorial Garden: 0.2 mi
- Hope Steven Garden: 0.3 mi
- Hope the Friendly Garden on Hill: 0.3 mi
- Harris Garden: 0.4 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.2 mi
- Our Gates: 0.3 mi
- Portrait of t.: 0.3 mi
- Welcome to Harlem: 1.0 mi
- Harlem Hybrid: 1.2 mi
- Johnny Hartman Square: 0.2 mi
- Carmansville Playground: 0.3 mi
- Ten Mile River Playground: 0.3 mi
- Donnellan Square: 0.3 mi
- Riverside Park: 0.3 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 0.3 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 0.3 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 0.8 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 1.3 mi
- Joker Stairs: 1.4 mi
- Saint Nicholas Avenue: 0.4 mi
- Saint Nicholas Avenue: 0.4 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.5 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.5 mi
- West 155th Street: 0.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.6 mi
- Palisades: 2.5 mi
- Palisades: 4.4 mi
- Palisades: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 7.6 mi
- Mount Morris: 1.6 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.8 mi
- Great Hill: 2.2 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.2 mi
- Long Hill: 2.7 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.9 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 3.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.6 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.7 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.0 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.4 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 4.9 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.1 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 6.8 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 1.6 mi
- Street Seats: 5.3 mi
- The Backyard: 6.5 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.5 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- The Loch: 2.3 mi
- The Falls: 7.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.5 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Mo' Pals. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 307° | 268 m | 16.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 307° | 260 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 306° | 230 m | 16.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 4° | 208 m | 15.3 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 306° | 185 m | 18.0 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 306° | 180 m | 17.7 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 266° | 179 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WSW 258° | 175 m | 18.2 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 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly928 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel896 obs
- House Sparrow618 obs
- American Robin600 obs
- white snakeroot596 obs
- common mugwort540 obs
- Rock Pigeon476 obs
- American pokeweed414 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/315402582
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 1 mi
- Fort Lee · 2 mi
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 3 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
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