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Auburndale Playground

Auburndale Playground from directly overhead

Auburndale Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 32 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Veteran's Memorial Triangle, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.7 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
32 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.76589, -73.79433

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Historic sites
Gardens
Attractions
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 2.0 mi
  • Circle Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Pinetum: 2.0 mi
  • Unity Garden: 2.0 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 2.2 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 5.9 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.0 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 6.0 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 6.8 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 4.0 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 5.9 mi
  • Janes Hill: 6.9 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 7.2 mi
  • Mount Morris: 8.2 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 19
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.9 mi
  • Palisades: 10.7 mi
  • Palisades: 11.6 mi
  • Palisades: 11.9 mi
  • Palisades: 13.1 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 7
  • The Falls: 8.8 mi
  • The Loch: 8.9 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 11.5 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 11.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.7 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Auburndale Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 341°208 m20.7 mi
Cooney HillN 8°170 m23.4 mi
Kennelwood HillN 5°156 m20.9 mi
Kykuit HillN 353°147 m22.5 mi
Beaver HillN 355°140 m20.9 mi
Hackley HillN 352°140 m21.4 mi
Tappan HillN 352°127 m21.4 mi
Todt HillSW 236°125 m20.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 5 mi away.

  • Wood Duck197 obs
  • Mute Swan196 obs
  • Mallard193 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel190 obs
  • American Robin186 obs
  • common mugwort186 obs
  • Pond Slider185 obs
  • Canada Goose177 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/741784455

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