College Point Fields
College Point Fields is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Mount Cecchino stands 230 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Poppenhusen Playground, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 3.7 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 3.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 8.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 19.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Poppenhusen Playground: 0.5 mi
- Frank Golden Park: 0.6 mi
- Cadwallader Colden Playground: 0.7 mi
- Leavitts Park: 0.8 mi
- College Point Park: 0.8 mi
- World War 2: 0.8 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Fox Oaks: 1.1 mi
- Weeping Beech Historical Marker: 1.1 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Third Base 1964-2008: 1.5 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 0.8 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 1.1 mi
- John Bowne House: 1.2 mi
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 1.4 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 2.0 mi
- Poppenhusen: 0.9 mi
- Perpetual Nature: 0.9 mi
- Tom Seaver: 1.5 mi
- Queens: 1.5 mi
- Home Run Apple: 1.5 mi
- Malcolm X Day Care Center: 1.7 mi
- Children's Garden: 1.9 mi
- Wedding Garden: 1.9 mi
- McIntosh Neighborhood Association Garden: 1.9 mi
- Queens Botanical Garden: 1.9 mi
- Deciduous Conifer Forest: 1.8 mi
- Meadow: 1.8 mi
- Herb Garden: 1.8 mi
- Oak Allée: 1.9 mi
- Pinetum: 1.9 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.7 mi
- Virginia Point: 4.9 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 7.0 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 7.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.2 mi
- Parsons Beach: 4.4 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 5.1 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 7.5 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.6 mi
- PWEA Beach: 7.6 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.5 mi
- Janes Hill: 4.6 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.5 mi
- Mount Morris: 5.9 mi
- Queens High Point: 6.3 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.9 mi
- Street Seats: 6.1 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 10.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 10.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 10.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 6.6 mi
- Palisades: 8.3 mi
- Palisades: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 11.0 mi
- The Loch: 6.5 mi
- The Falls: 7.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.7 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 22.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.8 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.1 miles of College Point Fields. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Cecchino | NW 305° | 230 m | 23.0 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 346° | 208 m | 19.4 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | N 9° | 180 m | 23.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 277° | 179 m | 21.4 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NNE 14° | 170 m | 23.1 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 12° | 156 m | 20.5 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 359° | 147 m | 21.6 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 1° | 140 m | 20.1 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 | 16:32 |
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, 2 mi away.
- Rock Pigeon167 obs
- marsh elder158 obs
- common mugwort139 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly116 obs
- tree-of-heaven113 obs
- Mallard108 obs
- European Starling99 obs
- ribwort plantain99 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/113727158
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 1 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Bronx · 5 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 5 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 6 mi
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