Centennial Park
Centennial Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 10 m. Jayne's Hill stands 122 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Roosevelt Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 18 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Nassau County
How to reach it
- 18.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 23.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 25.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Roosevelt Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- Hofstra University Suburban Ecological Research Site: 2.5 mi
- Sensory Garden: 2.7 mi
- Monarch Waystation: 3.3 mi
- Lakeview Garden: 3.4 mi
- Roosevelt Pool Park: 0.1 mi
- Henry Street Park: 0.5 mi
- Henry Street Park: 0.5 mi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Park: 0.5 mi
- St. Francis Street Park: 0.6 mi
- Roosevelt Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Brookside Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Merokee Preserve: 2.6 mi
- East Meadow Bird Sanctuary: 3.0 mi
- Francis Purcell Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Cannon: 1.4 mi
- Site of Stage Coach Stop: 1.4 mi
- Bethel Chapel plaque: 1.4 mi
- Brooklyn Waterworks: 1.6 mi
- Camp Meeting Grounds: 1.7 mi
- Baldwin Historical Museum: 1.5 mi
- Environmental Education and Resiliency Center: 3.0 mi
- African American Museum: 3.1 mi
- Philips House: 3.3 mi
- Long Island Children Museum: 3.6 mi
- Merrie Merrick: 2.2 mi
- Trap: 2.6 mi
- Dialogue between Plato and Socrates: 2.7 mi
- Upright Motive No.9: 2.7 mi
- Lost and Found: An Excavation Project: 3.1 mi
- Nautical Mile: 3.0 mi
- Jamaica: 4.0 mi
- Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 4.0 mi
- US Army Corps of Engineers Survey Point: 5.9 mi
- JFK: 10.6 mi
- Alhambra Beach: 6.2 mi
- Harbor Isle Beach: 6.3 mi
- Lido Beach: 6.4 mi
- Jones Beach: 7.2 mi
- Long Beach: 7.7 mi
- Queens High Point: 8.9 mi
- Harbor Hill: 8.9 mi
- Mannetto Hills: 10.8 mi
- West Hills: 12.6 mi
- Jayne's Hill: 12.8 mi
- Accessible Picnic Area: 3.3 mi
- Sycamore: 3.4 mi
- South Maples: 3.6 mi
- Cedars: 3.7 mi
- North Maples: 3.7 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 15.8 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 17.8 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 19.1 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 19.1 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 20.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.0 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 16.4 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 21.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.4 mi
- The Falls: 19.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 19.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 20.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 20.2 mi
- The Loch: 21.1 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 16.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Centennial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jayne's Hill | NE 42° | 122 m | 12.8 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NNW 342° | 106 m | 8.9 mi |
| West Hills | NE 40° | 106 m | 12.6 mi |
| Dix Hills | NE 51° | 92 m | 15.6 mi |
| Signal Hill | NE 50° | 90 m | 14.9 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | NE 39° | 85 m | 10.8 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NW 313° | 85 m | 22.5 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | WNW 304° | 81 m | 22.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:47 | 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 | 33 | 34 | 40 | 50 | 59 | 68 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.0 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oceanside, 4 mi away.
- Spotted spurge675 obs
- horseweed517 obs
- Asian bittersweet152 obs
- common groundsel110 obs
- Common Purslane100 obs
- ribwort plantain97 obs
- tree-of-heaven91 obs
- garlic mustard90 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/561013335
Day trips start here
- Hempstead · 2 mi
- Merrick · 2 mi
- Rockville Centre · 3 mi
- Nassau County · 4 mi
- Garden City · 5 mi
- Mineola · 6 mi
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