Spring Creek Park
Spring Creek Park is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Walter Ward Playground, a park 0.6 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 12 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- National Park Service
How to reach it
- 11.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 15.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 28.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Walter Ward Playground: 0.6 mi
- Harold Schneiderman Playground: 0.9 mi
- Frank M. Charles Memorial Park: 1.0 mi
- Pink Playground: 1.1 mi
- Woodruff Playground: 1.1 mi
- Euclid Pine Block Association: 1.5 mi
- Euclid Garden: 1.8 mi
- Manley's Place: 2.0 mi
- Crystal/Wells Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Causa Festival Garden: 2.2 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.0 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 3.8 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 4.1 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 4.3 mi
- King Manor Museum: 4.3 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 2.4 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 5.5 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 5.6 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 5.9 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 5.9 mi
- Rookery: 2.5 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 3.2 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 4.2 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 4.5 mi
- Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula: 4.7 mi
- Dawn of Glory: 2.8 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 2.9 mi
- Betty Smith 1943: 3.0 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Richmond Hill War Memorial: 3.4 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 3.2 mi
- Dolphin: 3.4 mi
- The City Don't Sleep: 3.5 mi
- Mastodon: 3.7 mi
- Voice of Tomorrow: 3.7 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 3.3 mi
- JFK: 3.4 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 3.6 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 5.8 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 5.8 mi
- Willink Hill: 5.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 6.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 6.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 6.2 mi
- Lookout Hill: 6.3 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 2.9 mi
- Picnic Area C: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Area D: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Area F: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Area G: 6.1 mi
- Palisades: 11.8 mi
- Palisades: 12.0 mi
- Palisades: 13.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 13.3 mi
- Palisades: 17.2 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 15.3 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 15.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.3 mi
- The Loch: 11.3 mi
- The Falls: 16.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.1 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.6 mi
- Barber: 22.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Spring Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 298° | 179 m | 23.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 290° | 175 m | 24.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 255° | 125 m | 14.2 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 48° | 106 m | 15.1 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 223° | 106 m | 24.5 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 63° | 106 m | 24.7 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 284° | 92 m | 24.6 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 351° | 85 m | 17.2 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 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| 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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 5 mi away.
- Brant134 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly121 obs
- common mugwort103 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab74 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird69 obs
- common reed69 obs
- Canada Goose66 obs
- American Herring Gull60 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/321072791
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 5 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 7 mi
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