Castle Hill Park
Castle Hill Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Waterfront Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.5 miles off.
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 6.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 17.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Pugsley Creek Park: 0.3 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 5.6 mi
- Virginia Point: 5.9 mi
- Half Moon Wetland Conservancy: 7.1 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 7.2 mi
- Harding Park: 0.5 mi
- Randall Playground: 0.5 mi
- Woodrow Wilson Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Hamilton Park: 0.7 mi
- Police Officer Hilario Serrano Playground: 0.8 mi
- Shamrock: 1.7 mi
- Poppenhusen: 1.7 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 3.3 mi
- Flight: 3.3 mi
- Perpetual Nature: 3.4 mi
- World War 2: 1.8 mi
- Westchester Square: 2.0 mi
- Pelham Bay Park World War Memorial: 3.2 mi
- 9/11: 3.2 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 3.5 mi
- I Love the Bronx mural: 2.5 mi
- Big Pun mural: 2.7 mi
- Jungle World: 2.7 mi
- Nature Trek: 2.8 mi
- Lions: 2.9 mi
- Maritime National Museum: 3.0 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 3.3 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 3.6 mi
- John Bowne House: 3.6 mi
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 3.7 mi
- Janes Hill: 3.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 5.1 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 5.5 mi
- Marble Hill: 5.5 mi
- Long Hill: 5.7 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 5.4 mi
- Parsons Beach: 5.6 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 5.9 mi
- Glen Island: 6.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.0 mi
- Street Seats: 6.8 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 10.1 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 11.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.0 mi
- Palisades: 7.4 mi
- Palisades: 7.5 mi
- Palisades: 9.5 mi
- The Palisades: 10.3 mi
- The Falls: 5.3 mi
- The Loch: 6.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 7.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 7.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 18.8 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 21.2 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 9.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.4 mi
- Cuties Island: 23.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Castle Hill Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 301° | 268 m | 21.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 300° | 230 m | 21.2 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 5° | 211 m | 20.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 346° | 208 m | 16.9 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 11° | 180 m | 20.7 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 270° | 179 m | 20.7 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NNE 17° | 170 m | 20.8 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 15° | 156 m | 18.2 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 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:31 |
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, 2 mi away.
- common mugwort2,922 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly226 obs
- tree-of-heaven199 obs
- groundsel tree173 obs
- red deadnettle155 obs
- white snakeroot127 obs
- common reed118 obs
- Atlantic Ribbed Mussel74 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/817592823
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 5 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 5 mi
- Fort Lee · 7 mi
- Manhattan · 7 mi
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