Conch Playground
Conch Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Arverne Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 16 miles off. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 16.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Arverne Playground: 0.3 mi
- Benjamin Cardozo Playground: 0.4 mi
- Thursby Basin Park: 0.6 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Beach 59th Street Playground: 0.6 mi
- Arverne East Nature Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Rockaway Beach - Arverne Shorebird Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Norton Basin Natural Resource Area: 0.7 mi
- Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula: 1.3 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 1.1 mi
- Sun and Surf Beach Club: 1.8 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 2.8 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 4.1 mi
- East Atlantic Beach: 4.2 mi
- Rock Hall: 2.6 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 5.2 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 5.4 mi
- Long Beach Historical Museum: 5.8 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 6.1 mi
- Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Flight 587 Memorial: 3.2 mi
- LCFD Memorial: 3.3 mi
- TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 3.4 mi
- HBFD Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Voice of Tomorrow: 3.2 mi
- The Young Rembrandt: 3.3 mi
- History of Time: 3.3 mi
- Mastodon: 5.4 mi
- Frog: 5.5 mi
- JFK: 4.0 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 8.1 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 8.2 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 9.0 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 9.0 mi
- The Garden of Resilience: 4.7 mi
- Beach Grass Nursery: 5.4 mi
- Mother Carter Garden: 5.6 mi
- 142nd Place & St. Block Association: 5.6 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 5.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 10.6 mi
- Breeze Hill: 10.6 mi
- Lookout Hill: 10.9 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 10.9 mi
- Quaker Hill: 11.0 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 2.7 mi
- Picnic Area B: 4.0 mi
- Picnic Area A: 4.0 mi
- Picnic Area G: 4.1 mi
- Picnic Area F: 4.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 14.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 14.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 15.9 mi
- North Tower: 17.5 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 17.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.0 mi
- The Loch: 16.6 mi
- The Falls: 20.4 mi
- Palisades: 17.1 mi
- Palisades: 17.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 18.3 mi
- Palisades: 18.4 mi
- Palisades: 22.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Conch Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Todt Hill | W 271° | 125 m | 17.5 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | NE 51° | 122 m | 24.0 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NNE 28° | 106 m | 15.9 mi |
| West Hills | NE 50° | 106 m | 23.8 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 236° | 106 m | 24.8 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 343° | 85 m | 21.8 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | NE 51° | 85 m | 22.0 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | NNW 335° | 81 m | 19.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 3 mi away.
- common reed208 obs
- American Oystercatcher171 obs
- groundsel tree131 obs
- Laughing Gull123 obs
- common mugwort112 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod78 obs
- American Herring Gull51 obs
- shining sumac50 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/320893894
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 8 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 8 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 9 mi
- Rockville Centre · 9 mi
- Queens · 10 mi
- Garden City · 11 mi
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