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Chappetto Square

Chappetto Square from directly overhead

Chappetto Square is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Triborough Bridge Playground B, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
10 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.77506, -73.92247
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Triborough Bridge Playground B: 0.0 mi
  • Triborough Bridge Playground D: 0.1 mi
  • Triborough Bridge Playground E: 0.2 mi
  • Astoria Park: 0.3 mi
  • Hoyt Playground: 0.4 mi
Artworks
  • Q100: 0.1 mi
  • Columbus: 0.4 mi
  • P.S. 17Q: 0.5 mi
  • Welcome to Queens: 0.5 mi
  • Athena: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Two Coves Community Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Hellsgate Farms: 0.6 mi
  • Roosevelt Island Garden Club: 1.3 mi
  • Humacao Community Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Pleasant Hill Garden: 1.5 mi
Beaches
  • Hallet’s Cove: 0.8 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.3 mi
  • Maxwell Place Beach: 5.6 mi
  • Hazard Beach: 5.8 mi
  • Pebble Beach: 6.0 mi
Museums
Attractions
Peaks
  • Mount Morris: 2.3 mi
  • Great Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Vista Rock: 2.5 mi
  • Summit Rock: 2.6 mi
  • Janes Hill: 2.6 mi
Nature reserves
Picnic sites: 43
Cliffs: 17
  • Coogan's Bluff: 4.1 mi
  • Palisades: 4.3 mi
  • Palisades: 5.2 mi
  • Palisades: 6.7 mi
  • Palisades: 8.1 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Loch: 2.4 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.0 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 8.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.2 mi
  • The Falls: 8.9 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 4
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.3 miles of Chappetto Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 313°268 m19.8 mi
Beech MountainNW 313°260 m20.9 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 312°230 m19.5 mi
Mount NeboN 359°208 m18.9 mi
Poacher PeakNW 312°185 m21.3 mi
Moon HillNW 312°180 m21.0 mi
Stony HillW 279°179 m17.0 mi
Mayapple HillW 270°175 m19.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

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

Wildlife nearby
  • tree-of-heaven1,892 obs
  • white snakeroot1,376 obs
  • Rock Pigeon1,371 obs
  • Box Sucker1,101 obs
  • Porcelain Berry1,100 obs
  • northern seaside goldenrod1,054 obs
  • common mugwort1,053 obs
  • common milkweed986 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/237845864

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