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Alley Pond Park

Alley Pond Park from directly overhead

Alley Pond Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 53 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is General George Washington Tablet, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.2 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
53 m

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.75106, -73.74853

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Linnaeus Park: 0.2 mi
  • Tall Oak Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Oakland Lake Wildflower Meadow: 0.8 mi
  • Captain Dermody Triangle: 0.9 mi
  • Telephone Playground: 1.0 mi
Gardens
  • Cloverdale Gardens at Bayside: 0.3 mi
  • The Estates at Bayside: 0.5 mi
  • House Beautiful: 0.5 mi
  • Mitchel Wallace Triangle: 0.6 mi
  • Winsor Oaks: 0.7 mi
Artworks
  • Turtle Statue: 0.3 mi
  • Reclaimed Habitat: 0.7 mi
  • Dog: 1.2 mi
  • Wood Pile: 3.0 mi
  • Jam Master Jay: 3.0 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 5.2 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 5.3 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 6.3 mi
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 1.6 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 6.6 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 8.0 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 9.2 mi
  • Janes Hill: 9.5 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 3.7 mi
  • Circle Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 4.1 mi
  • Unity Garden: 4.1 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Picnic Area D: 7.2 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 7.2 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 7.4 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 7.4 mi
  • Accessible Picnic Area: 7.4 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Coogan's Bluff: 11.5 mi
  • Palisades: 13.3 mi
  • Palisades: 14.0 mi
  • Palisades: 14.3 mi
  • Palisades: 15.4 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 5
  • The Falls: 10.6 mi
  • The Loch: 11.5 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.2 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.5 miles of Alley Pond Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 336°208 m22.6 mi
Reynolds HillN 358°180 m24.5 mi
Cooney HillN 2°170 m24.2 mi
Kennelwood HillN 359°156 m21.9 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 348°147 m23.9 mi
Beaver HillN 349°140 m22.2 mi
Hackley HillNNW 347°140 m22.8 mi
Tappan HillNNW 346°127 m22.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 7 mi away.

  • eastern poison ivy608 obs
  • garlic mustard598 obs
  • common mugwort558 obs
  • American tuliptree504 obs
  • American Robin496 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel495 obs
  • multiflora rose476 obs
  • American sweetgum398 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/282605883

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