Canarsie Pier
Canarsie Pier is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Canarsie Beach, a beach 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- National Park Service
How to reach it
- 13.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 16.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Canarsie Beach: 0.2 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 3.7 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 4.4 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 4.5 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 2: 4.5 mi
- Bayview Playground: 0.3 mi
- Wilson Playground: 1.0 mi
- Starrett City Park: 1.0 mi
- One Hundred Percent Playground: 1.3 mi
- Bergen Beach: 1.4 mi
- Rookery: 0.9 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 2.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 2.3 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 2.3 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 3.5 mi
- Horse: 1.7 mi
- Fisherman: 3.8 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 4.0 mi
- Now & Then: 4.2 mi
- Robert Fulton: 4.2 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 2.1 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 3.8 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 3.8 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 4.5 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 4.7 mi
- Newport Gardens: 2.4 mi
- Powell Street Livonia Garden: 2.4 mi
- First Temple of David: 2.5 mi
- Causa Festival Garden: 2.6 mi
- Big Red Garden: 2.7 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 2.5 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 3.0 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 3.4 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 3.7 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 4.0 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 2.9 mi
- Col. John B. O'Dowd Memorial Plaque: 2.9 mi
- Zion Park War Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Dawn of Glory: 3.7 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 3.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 4.7 mi
- Breeze Hill: 4.7 mi
- Lookout Hill: 5.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 5.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 5.0 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 3.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.6 mi
- Picnic Area C: 7.8 mi
- Palisades: 11.4 mi
- Palisades: 12.0 mi
- Palisades: 13.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 14.3 mi
- Palisades: 18.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 13.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 13.2 mi
- North Tower: 17.0 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 17.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.0 mi
- The Loch: 12.0 mi
- The Falls: 18.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.1 mi
- Barber: 20.8 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Canarsie Pier. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 304° | 179 m | 22.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 295° | 175 m | 23.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 260° | 125 m | 12.3 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 224° | 120 m | 22.9 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 48° | 106 m | 17.3 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 223° | 106 m | 22.2 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 288° | 92 m | 23.4 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 357° | 85 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:49 | 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 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 6 mi away.
- common mugwort143 obs
- Brant97 obs
- common reed74 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly70 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird69 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab65 obs
- American Robin54 obs
- Brown-lipped Snail53 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/558594768
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 4 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 7 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 7 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 7 mi
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