Bland Playground
Bland Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Mount Cecchino stands 230 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Maple Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 5.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 20.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Maple Playground: 0.3 mi
- Bowne Playground: 0.3 mi
- Flushing Greens: 0.3 mi
- Daniel Carter Beard Mall: 0.4 mi
- Flushing Creek Waterfront Park: 0.4 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Fox Oaks: 0.5 mi
- Weeping Beech Historical Marker: 0.5 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Second Base 1964-2008: 0.9 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium First Base 1964-2008: 0.9 mi
- John Bowne House: 0.5 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 0.5 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 0.5 mi
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 0.9 mi
- Queens Museum: 1.2 mi
- Deciduous Conifer Forest: 0.5 mi
- Herb Garden: 0.5 mi
- Meadow: 0.6 mi
- Oak Allée: 0.6 mi
- Pinetum: 0.6 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.6 mi
- Wedding Garden: 0.6 mi
- Queens Botanical Garden: 0.6 mi
- Evergreen Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- Althea Gibson Sculpture Garden: 1.0 mi
- Perpetual Nature: 0.6 mi
- Tom Seaver: 0.8 mi
- Home Run Apple: 0.8 mi
- Queens: 0.8 mi
- George Washington as Master Mason: 0.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.0 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.2 mi
- Janes Hill: 5.6 mi
- Queens High Point: 5.9 mi
- Mount Morris: 6.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.0 mi
- Virginia Point: 4.8 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 6.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.1 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 7.4 mi
- Parsons Beach: 4.2 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 5.5 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 7.8 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.9 mi
- PWEA Beach: 7.9 mi
- Street Seats: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.7 mi
- Picnic Area D: 9.1 mi
- Picnic Area C: 9.1 mi
- Picnic Area F: 9.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.0 mi
- Palisades: 10.0 mi
- Palisades: 10.9 mi
- Palisades: 11.1 mi
- The Loch: 7.2 mi
- The Falls: 9.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 9.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 9.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 9.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 9.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 9.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.7 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 22.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 11.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Bland Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Cecchino | NW 307° | 230 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 346° | 208 m | 20.7 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 280° | 179 m | 21.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 273° | 175 m | 23.9 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | N 10° | 156 m | 21.7 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 358° | 147 m | 22.9 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 0° | 140 m | 21.4 mi |
| Hackley Hill | N 358° | 140 m | 21.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| 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 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel385 obs
- Mallard322 obs
- American Robin301 obs
- Rock Pigeon289 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly283 obs
- common mugwort256 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird214 obs
- Canada Goose206 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/425616454
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 1 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Bronx · 6 mi
- Queens · 6 mi
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