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Creek Park

Creek Park from directly overhead

Creek Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 37 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Russell Gardens Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.3 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
37 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.78183, -73.72306

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Russell Gardens Park: 0.0 mi
  • Russell Gardens Tennis Courts: 0.1 mi
  • University Gardens Swimming & Tennis Club: 0.3 mi
  • Cutter Mill Park: 0.4 mi
  • Wyngate Park: 0.4 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Artworks
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 1.7 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 4.5 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 9.8 mi
  • Janes Hill: 10.1 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 11.1 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 1.7 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 2.7 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 2.8 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 2.9 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 3.8 mi
Gardens
  • Freddy's Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Greentree Walled Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Cloverdale Gardens at Bayside: 2.7 mi
  • Mitchel Wallace Triangle: 2.8 mi
  • Neily's Garden: 2.8 mi
Attractions
  • Circle Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 5.8 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Welcome Center: 5.8 mi
  • Pinetum: 5.8 mi
Picnic sites: 34
Cliffs: 13
Lighthouses: 7
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Falls: 9.6 mi
  • The Loch: 12.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 15.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 15.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 15.4 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 330°208 m21.3 mi
Reynolds HillN 354°180 m22.5 mi
Round HillN 7°172 m22.4 mi
Cooney HillN 359°170 m22.1 mi
Kennelwood HillN 355°156 m19.8 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 343°147 m22.2 mi
Beaver HillNNW 345°140 m20.5 mi
Hackley HillNNW 342°140 m21.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 6 mi away.

  • common mugwort73 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly71 obs
  • Mourning Dove53 obs
  • American Robin50 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel44 obs
  • garlic mustard44 obs
  • Blue Jay43 obs
  • Northern Cardinal41 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/563713025

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