Clark Playground
Clark Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Willis Avenue Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 2.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 3.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 20.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Willis Avenue Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- Padre Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Wanaqua Family Garden: 0.5 mi
- New Roots Community Farm: 0.6 mi
- 138th Street Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Patterson Playground: 0.2 mi
- Alexander’s Alley: 0.2 mi
- Ryan Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Mott Haven Playground: 0.2 mi
- Willis Playground: 0.2 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 0.3 mi
- Universal Hip Hop Museum: 0.8 mi
- The Yankees Museum: 1.1 mi
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem: 1.2 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 1.2 mi
- Coral: 0.5 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 0.8 mi
- Crack Is Wack: 0.8 mi
- Dream Machine Ⅱ: 0.9 mi
- Growth: 1.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 0.5 mi
- Mount Morris: 1.3 mi
- Great Hill: 2.3 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 2.9 mi
- Summit Rock: 3.3 mi
- Matthew Travis Palacios: 1.0 mi
- The Bat: 1.0 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 1.2 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 1.2 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 1.3 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.1 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.1 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 1.3 mi
- Big Pun mural: 1.3 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 1.5 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.1 mi
- Hazard Beach: 3.4 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 3.9 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.4 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 4.8 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.2 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.6 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.3 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 6.2 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 1.3 mi
- Street Seats: 4.6 mi
- The Backyard: 7.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 9.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 9.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 1.6 mi
- Palisades: 3.7 mi
- Palisades: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 6.1 mi
- Palisades: 8.0 mi
- The Loch: 2.4 mi
- The Falls: 6.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.6 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 22.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 5.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 13.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.1 miles of Clark Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 307° | 268 m | 18.1 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 307° | 260 m | 19.2 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 306° | 230 m | 17.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 359° | 208 m | 16.3 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 306° | 185 m | 19.7 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 306° | 180 m | 19.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 270° | 179 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 262° | 175 m | 19.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 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 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
- white snakeroot837 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel768 obs
- common mugwort703 obs
- common milkweed675 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly654 obs
- Porcelain Berry574 obs
- American Robin485 obs
- House Sparrow475 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/1095614041
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 1 mi
- Bronx · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 3 mi
- Fort Lee · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
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