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Challenge Playground

Challenge Playground from directly overhead

Challenge Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 69 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Queens High Point, a peak 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.9 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
69 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.75646, -73.72790
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 0.5 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 5.5 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 9.1 mi
  • Janes Hill: 10.3 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 10.4 mi
Parks
Artworks
  • Turtle Statue: 1.0 mi
  • Dog: 1.3 mi
  • Reclaimed Habitat: 1.5 mi
  • Jam Master Jay: 3.7 mi
  • Wood Pile: 4.1 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Pollinator Place: 1.2 mi
  • Cloverdale Gardens at Bayside: 1.4 mi
  • Greenstreets: 1.6 mi
  • The Estates at Bayside: 1.6 mi
  • House Beautiful: 1.6 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 1.7 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 4.4 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 4.5 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 4.7 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 5.6 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 4.8 mi
  • Circle Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 5.2 mi
  • Unity Garden: 5.2 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Accessible Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 7.6 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 7.6 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 7.7 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 7.8 mi
Cliffs: 13
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 5
  • The Falls: 10.8 mi
  • The Loch: 12.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 14.3 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.2 miles of Challenge Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 333°208 m22.7 mi
Reynolds HillN 355°180 m24.2 mi
Round HillN 7°172 m24.2 mi
Cooney HillN 359°170 m23.8 mi
Kennelwood HillN 356°156 m21.5 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 345°147 m23.8 mi
Beaver HillNNW 346°140 m22.1 mi
Hackley HillNNW 344°140 m22.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • garlic mustard499 obs
  • common mugwort472 obs
  • eastern poison ivy410 obs
  • multiflora rose395 obs
  • American Robin376 obs
  • common reed330 obs
  • American beech313 obs
  • common milkweed310 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/770410277

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