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Brook Road Park

Brook Road Park from directly overhead

Brook Road Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Mill Brook Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 14 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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Coordinates40.65348, -73.72146
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Mill Brook Park: 0.6 mi
  • Edward W. Cahill Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
  • Sunrise Playground: 0.8 mi
  • Village Green Park: 1.0 mi
  • Hook Creek Ballfield: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Gardens
Museums
Artworks
  • History of Time: 3.2 mi
  • The Young Rembrandt: 3.2 mi
  • Voice of Tomorrow: 3.3 mi
  • A Tribe Called Quest Mural: 3.3 mi
  • Frog: 3.6 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Peaks: 47
  • Queens High Point: 7.2 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 10.7 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 10.9 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 11.8 mi
  • Willink Hill: 12.7 mi
Picnic sites: 31
  • Picnic Area D: 1.0 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 1.0 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 1.0 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 1.0 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 1.0 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Coogan's Bluff: 16.8 mi
  • Palisades: 17.6 mi
  • Palisades: 17.7 mi
  • Palisades: 18.0 mi
  • Palisades: 20.1 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Waterfalls: 5
  • Binnen Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.1 mi
  • The Loch: 15.8 mi
  • The Falls: 17.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Todt HillW 260°125 m21.0 mi
Jayne's HillNE 54°122 m19.1 mi
Harbor HillNNE 23°106 m10.9 mi
West HillsNE 53°106 m18.9 mi
Dix HillsENE 59°92 m22.3 mi
Signal HillENE 58°90 m21.6 mi
Mannetto HillsNE 54°85 m17.1 mi
Bronx High PointNNW 331°85 m19.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333541516170767568574738
Precip in3.22.83.93.63.73.93.94.13.63.73.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel309 obs
  • Mallard303 obs
  • Canada Goose222 obs
  • American Robin191 obs
  • common milkweed148 obs
  • Rock Pigeon145 obs
  • European Starling128 obs
  • Mute Swan125 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/976823367

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