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Bennett Park

Bennett Park from directly overhead

Bennett Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Manhattan High Point, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.2 miles off.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.85299, -73.93822

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Historic sites
Parks
Nature reserves
Artworks
Gardens
  • Bonnefont Cloister: 0.9 mi
  • Trie Cloister: 0.9 mi
  • The Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Cuxa Cloister: 0.9 mi
  • Riley-Levin Children's Garden: 0.9 mi
Beaches
Cliffs
Attractions
Picnic sites: 44
Waterfalls: 12
  • The Loch: 4.2 mi
  • The Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Bennett Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainWNW 301°268 m15.8 mi
Beech MountainWNW 301°260 m17.0 mi
Mount CecchinoWNW 300°230 m15.7 mi
Campgaw MountainNW 316°224 m19.5 mi
Hook MountainN 3°214 m18.5 mi
Buttermilk HillNNE 20°211 m19.0 mi
Mount NeboN 3°208 m13.6 mi
Poacher PeakWNW 300°185 m17.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:32
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1815:4816:32

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 mugwort1,232 obs
  • Porcelain Berry1,013 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly905 obs
  • northern spicebush691 obs
  • Italian arum630 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel558 obs
  • eastern poison ivy517 obs
  • Asian bittersweet485 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/104078386

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