College Point Park
College Point Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is World War 2, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 3.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 15 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 3.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 19.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- World War 2: 0.0 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Fox Oaks: 1.9 mi
- Weeping Beech Historical Marker: 1.9 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Third Base 1964-2008: 2.1 mi
- Poppenhusen: 0.2 mi
- Perpetual Nature: 1.6 mi
- Queens: 2.1 mi
- Tom Seaver: 2.1 mi
- Home Run Apple: 2.1 mi
- Poppenhusen Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Playground 115: 0.3 mi
- Poppenhusen Playground: 0.3 mi
- Hermon A MacNeil Park: 0.6 mi
- Powell's Cove Park: 0.7 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 1.6 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 1.9 mi
- John Bowne House: 1.9 mi
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 2.1 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 2.3 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.0 mi
- Virginia Point: 5.4 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.8 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 6.9 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.1 mi
- Deciduous Conifer Forest: 2.5 mi
- Meadow: 2.6 mi
- Herb Garden: 2.6 mi
- Oak Allée: 2.6 mi
- Rocket Park: 2.6 mi
- Janes Hill: 3.8 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.6 mi
- Mount Morris: 5.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.6 mi
- Great Hill: 5.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.8 mi
- Parsons Beach: 4.9 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 7.3 mi
- Glen Island: 7.5 mi
- Hazard Beach: 7.5 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.2 mi
- Street Seats: 5.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 10.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 10.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 10.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.8 mi
- Palisades: 7.7 mi
- Palisades: 8.8 mi
- Palisades: 9.2 mi
- Palisades: 10.7 mi
- The Loch: 5.9 mi
- The Falls: 7.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.5 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 22.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.8 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.4 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.5 miles of College Point Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 305° | 268 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 304° | 230 m | 22.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 347° | 208 m | 18.7 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | N 10° | 180 m | 22.5 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 275° | 179 m | 20.8 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 13° | 156 m | 20.0 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 0° | 147 m | 21.0 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 3° | 140 m | 19.5 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.
- common mugwort673 obs
- marsh elder174 obs
- ribwort plantain116 obs
- Atlantic Ribbed Mussel94 obs
- common reed91 obs
- tree-of-heaven87 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly72 obs
- groundsel tree68 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/389598466
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 2 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Bronx · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 6 mi
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