Park · New York
Ditmars Park
Ditmars Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Lucky, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 17 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates40.77168, -73.90705
- 4.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 6.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 21.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Artworks
- Lucky: 0.1 mi
- Columbus: 0.6 mi
- Athena: 0.9 mi
- P.S. 17Q: 0.9 mi
- Welcome to Queens: 0.9 mi
Parks
- Seven Oaks: 0.3 mi
- Steinway Playground: 0.4 mi
- Woodtree Playground: 0.5 mi
- Paul Raimonda Playground: 0.5 mi
- Hoyt Playground: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
- Flight 587 November 12 2001 memorial: 1.0 mi
- World War 1: 1.0 mi
- General Slocum Disaster: 1.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Gorman Playground Plaque: 1.4 mi
Gardens
- Moore Jackson Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Hellsgate Farms: 1.2 mi
- Farm on other side of BQE: 1.3 mi
- Two Coves Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Farm on hill by BQE: 1.4 mi
Museums
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.4 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.4 mi
- The Noguchi Museum: 1.6 mi
- Garbage museum: 2.2 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 2.7 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 1.5 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.9 mi
- Hazard Beach: 6.3 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 6.3 mi
- Pebble Beach: 6.4 mi
Attractions
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 2.1 mi
- Blackwell House: 2.4 mi
- Roosevelt Island Sign: 2.7 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 2.7 mi
- Eleanor Roosevelt High Residence: 2.9 mi
Peaks
- Janes Hill: 2.8 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.8 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.9 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.0 mi
- Great Hill: 3.2 mi
Nature reserves
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.1 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.1 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 6.2 mi
- Bird Island: 7.1 mi
Picnic sites: 41
- Street Seats: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.0 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 17
- Coogan's Bluff: 4.5 mi
- Palisades: 5.1 mi
- Palisades: 6.0 mi
- Palisades: 7.4 mi
- Palisades: 8.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
- The Loch: 3.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.3 mi
- The Falls: 8.8 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 22.0 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 22.0 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.8 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 20.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Barber: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.4 miles of Ditmars Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 312° | 268 m | 20.5 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 312° | 260 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 311° | 230 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 357° | 208 m | 19.2 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 311° | 185 m | 22.1 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 311° | 180 m | 21.8 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 279° | 179 m | 17.8 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 270° | 175 m | 19.9 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, 2 mi away.
- Porcelain Berry1,028 obs
- white snakeroot750 obs
- common milkweed722 obs
- common mugwort441 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly401 obs
- tree-of-heaven380 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle366 obs
- groundsel tree351 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/401272976
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- Manhattan · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 3 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 3 mi
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