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Bay Terrace Playground

Bay Terrace Playground from directly overhead

Bay Terrace Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Clearview Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.7 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
9 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.78237, -73.77751

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 1.4 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 4.6 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 4.6 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 5.4 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Nature reserves
Artworks
Gardens
Attractions
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 3.4 mi
  • Circle Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Pinetum: 3.4 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Oak Allée: 3.4 mi
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 3.5 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 7.2 mi
  • Janes Hill: 7.3 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 7.3 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 8.4 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 19
Lighthouses: 7
Waterfalls: 7
  • The Falls: 8.0 mi
  • The Loch: 9.6 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 12.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 12.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.3 miles of Bay Terrace Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 337°208 m20.0 mi
Reynolds HillN 1°180 m22.3 mi
Cooney HillN 6°170 m22.1 mi
Kennelwood HillN 3°156 m19.7 mi
Kykuit HillN 351°147 m21.5 mi
Beaver HillN 352°140 m19.9 mi
Hackley HillN 350°140 m20.4 mi
Tappan HillN 349°127 m20.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343642536373787770584839
Precip in3.73.24.43.94.14.64.44.84.64.13.44.7

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

  • common milkweed313 obs
  • Canada Goose187 obs
  • common mugwort168 obs
  • Mallard151 obs
  • American Robin138 obs
  • Mute Swan137 obs
  • lesser celandine134 obs
  • garlic mustard123 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/468529499

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