Bill Rainey Park
Bill Rainey Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Dawson Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.3 miles off.
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 4.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 19.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Dawson Playground: 0.1 mi
- Garrison Park: 0.2 mi
- Stebbins Playground: 0.3 mi
- Fox Park: 0.3 mi
- Al Quiñones Playground: 0.3 mi
- Big Pun mural: 0.1 mi
- I Love the Bronx mural: 0.4 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 0.7 mi
- Joker Stairs: 1.8 mi
- Nature Trek: 2.1 mi
- Isla Verde Garden: 0.6 mi
- Franklin Memorial Garden: 0.6 mi
- Aldus 111 Tenants Association Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Morning Glory Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Genesis Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Janes Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.6 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 3.2 mi
- Great Hill: 3.6 mi
- Long Hill: 3.6 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 0.9 mi
- Coral: 1.5 mi
- Dream Machine Ⅱ: 1.9 mi
- Crack Is Wack: 2.1 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 2.1 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 1.1 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 1.4 mi
- The Yankees Museum: 1.6 mi
- Universal Hip Hop Museum: 1.7 mi
- Morris-Jumel Mansion: 2.4 mi
- The Bat: 1.8 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.0 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.1 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.1 mi
- Matthew Travis Palacios: 2.1 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.4 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.0 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 7.5 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 3.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.9 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.3 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.6 mi
- Street Seats: 5.5 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.9 mi
- The Backyard: 9.1 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 2.4 mi
- Palisades: 4.9 mi
- Palisades: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 7.3 mi
- The Palisades: 9.1 mi
- The Loch: 3.7 mi
- The Falls: 5.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.5 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 9.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 9.4 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 21.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 22.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.8 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.7 miles of Bill Rainey Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 304° | 268 m | 18.9 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 304° | 260 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 303° | 230 m | 18.7 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 13° | 211 m | 20.6 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 354° | 208 m | 16.0 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 303° | 185 m | 20.5 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 303° | 180 m | 20.2 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 269° | 179 m | 18.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 3 mi away.
- common mugwort467 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly244 obs
- tree-of-heaven224 obs
- red deadnettle186 obs
- groundsel tree184 obs
- Canada Goose165 obs
- Rock Pigeon141 obs
- white snakeroot129 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/562767690
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 3 mi
- Fort Lee · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 5 mi
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