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Berry Playground

Berry Playground from directly overhead

Berry Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Berry Street Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.0 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
15 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.71267, -73.96347

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Bucket Conveyor: 0.3 mi
  • Lounge Screw Conveyor: 0.3 mi
  • Crescendo: 0.6 mi
  • Prayer: 0.7 mi
  • Virgin Mary: 0.7 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • Zohramp: 1.2 mi
  • Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 1.4 mi
  • Couv Led Zepp 5e album: 1.5 mi
  • Lower East Side Skatepark: 1.5 mi
  • Anarchy 99: 1.5 mi
Beaches
Peaks: 59
  • Laurel Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.5 mi
  • Grassy Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.6 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 4.7 mi
  • Palisades: 5.0 mi
  • Palisades: 6.8 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.4 mi
  • Palisades: 12.4 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.5 mi
  • The Loch: 5.7 mi
  • The Falls: 13.7 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 17.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Berry Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 326°268 m21.6 mi
Beech MountainNW 324°260 m22.7 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 325°230 m21.4 mi
Mount NeboN 5°208 m23.3 mi
Poacher PeakNW 323°185 m23.0 mi
Moon HillNW 323°180 m22.7 mi
Stony HillWNW 295°179 m16.2 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 284°175 m17.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.

  • Rock Pigeon1,240 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly1,160 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee889 obs
  • Monarch887 obs
  • House Sparrow809 obs
  • tree-of-heaven749 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel738 obs
  • Mourning Dove655 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/929187890

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