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Bloomingdale Park

Bloomingdale Park from directly overhead

Bloomingdale Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 21 m. Mine Mountain stands 251 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.53391, -74.21727
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 0.3 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 0.5 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 0.8 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 0.8 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 0.8 mi
Parks
  • McBaine Estate Park: 0.4 mi
  • Pleasant Plains Plaza: 0.7 mi
  • Lorraine Loop Park: 0.7 mi
  • Fairview Park: 0.7 mi
  • Harris Brothers Park: 0.8 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 1.6 mi
  • The South Pole: 3.0 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 5.3 mi
  • Buck’s Hollow: 5.4 mi
  • Carousel for All Children: 5.7 mi
Beaches
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 4.3 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 4.7 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 6.0 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 7.3 mi
  • Compost and Community Garden: 8.4 mi
Peaks: 54
  • Todt Hill: 7.1 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 8.3 mi
  • Signal Hill: 9.0 mi
  • Fox Hills: 9.2 mi
  • Park Hill: 9.3 mi
Picnic sites: 28
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 5.7 mi
  • Holy Trinity Picnic Site: 10.5 mi
  • Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
  • Grove 4: 11.2 mi
  • Grove 3B: 11.3 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 15.0 mi
  • Palisades: 17.1 mi
  • Palisades: 19.3 mi
  • Palisades: 22.4 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 22.6 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Seele: 13.4 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 15.4 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 15.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 15.8 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 15.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mine MountainWNW 303°251 m24.1 mi
Sugar LoafNW 316°229 m23.6 mi
Gillespie HillNW 319°217 m23.1 mi
Mount KembleNW 315°215 m22.6 mi
Blachleys HillNW 312°204 m23.1 mi
Kinneys HillNW 322°180 m22.9 mi
Stony HillN 356°179 m19.3 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 347°175 m16.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:32
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1815:5016:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Asian bittersweet596 obs
  • white snakeroot355 obs
  • Fowler's Toad131 obs
  • American sweetgum115 obs
  • common mugwort114 obs
  • Canada Goose101 obs
  • White-tailed Deer95 obs
  • eastern poison ivy89 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/33873634

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