Arrochar Playground
Arrochar Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Frederick Staats Circle, a park 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 18.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 18.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 27.5 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Frederick Staats Circle: 0.1 mi
- Old Town Playground: 0.6 mi
- South Beach: 0.6 mi
- Playland Playground: 0.6 mi
- Brady's Pond Park: 0.7 mi
- Battery Ayres: 0.5 mi
- Battery Richmond: 0.6 mi
- Battery Barry: 0.7 mi
- Battery Upton: 0.8 mi
- Battery Dix: 0.8 mi
- South Beach: 0.6 mi
- Eyes: 2.0 mi
- St. Anne: 2.3 mi
- St. Anthony: 2.3 mi
- Wingdale: 2.3 mi
- South Beach: 0.7 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 1.3 mi
- Midland Beach: 1.9 mi
- New Dorp Beach: 2.9 mi
- Cedar Grove Beach: 3.3 mi
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum: 0.8 mi
- Mont Sec House: 0.9 mi
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: 1.2 mi
- Alice Austen House: 1.3 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 2.2 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 1.1 mi
- Last Chance Pond Park: 1.7 mi
- New Creek Bluebelt: 1.8 mi
- Saint Francis Woodlands: 2.2 mi
- Swinburne Island: 2.4 mi
- Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House: 1.6 mi
- Jurassic Park: 2.1 mi
- The Gingerbread House: 2.7 mi
- New York City Farm Colony: 3.5 mi
- Buck’s Hollow: 3.6 mi
- Hill Street Community Garden: 1.7 mi
- Compost and Community Garden: 1.7 mi
- Native Rhododendron Garden: 2.9 mi
- Narrows Botanical Gardens: 3.3 mi
- Tuscan Garden: 3.5 mi
- Fox Hills: 1.2 mi
- Park Hill: 1.5 mi
- Emerson Hill: 1.5 mi
- Signal Hill: 1.7 mi
- Todt Hill: 2.3 mi
- Freedom Field: 6.9 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.7 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.7 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.9 mi
- Linden Airport mini-park: 9.2 mi
- Palisades: 10.2 mi
- Palisades: 12.2 mi
- Palisades: 15.2 mi
- Hawk Hill: 15.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 17.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.0 mi
- The Loch: 14.8 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 15.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 10.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 10.1 mi
- North Tower: 14.6 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 14.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 10.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 10.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.7 mi
- Barber: 10.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 17.6 mi
- Raritan Landing: 21.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 15.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Arrochar Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NNW 329° | 179 m | 17.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 317° | 175 m | 16.6 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NNW 339° | 144 m | 24.7 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 318° | 134 m | 19.9 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 290° | 126 m | 20.5 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 275° | 125 m | 2.3 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 203° | 120 m | 15.4 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSW 201° | 106 m | 15.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
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 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 5 mi away.
- Porcelain Berry250 obs
- Wild Turkey170 obs
- common mugwort104 obs
- smooth cliffbrake86 obs
- Canada Goose73 obs
- red deadnettle68 obs
- common ivy63 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly62 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/241878599
Day trips start here
- Staten Island · 4 mi
- Bayonne · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 8 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 8 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 8 mi
- Downstate New York · 9 mi
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