Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Park
Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Causa Festival Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 49 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
How to reach it
- 10.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 13.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 27.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Causa Festival Garden: 0.1 mi
- First Temple of David: 0.1 mi
- Big Red Garden: 0.1 mi
- Public School 4k Paradise Garden: 0.6 mi
- Powell Street Livonia Garden: 0.7 mi
- Duke Park: 0.2 mi
- Jefferson Field: 0.3 mi
- Sutter Avenue Ballfield: 0.3 mi
- Grace Playground: 0.3 mi
- New Lots Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Dawn of Glory: 1.1 mi
- Zion Park War Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Saratoga Park Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Ridgewood War Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 2.4 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 1.3 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.9 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 2.7 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 2.8 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 3.4 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 2.3 mi
- Rookery: 3.4 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 4.5 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 4.7 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 5.3 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 2.3 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 2.9 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 3.7 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 3.9 mi
- Carousel: 3.9 mi
- Robert Fulton: 2.4 mi
- Shai Asia Semple: 2.7 mi
- Dolphin: 2.9 mi
- Mathematical Star: 3.1 mi
- Yusuf Hawkins: 3.1 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 2.7 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.8 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 5.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 6.0 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 6.7 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.9 mi
- Breeze Hill: 4.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 4.1 mi
- Quaker Hill: 4.3 mi
- Lookout Hill: 4.3 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 4.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.1 mi
- Street Seats: 6.5 mi
- Palisades: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.8 mi
- Palisades: 11.1 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 11.7 mi
- Palisades: 15.7 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.4 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 15.4 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 15.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 4.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.3 mi
- The Loch: 9.5 mi
- The Falls: 15.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 21.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 21.0 mi
- Barber: 21.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 298° | 179 m | 21.0 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 289° | 175 m | 22.1 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 294° | 134 m | 24.9 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 248° | 125 m | 12.7 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 219° | 120 m | 24.6 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 55° | 106 m | 16.0 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 218° | 106 m | 24.0 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 282° | 92 m | 22.4 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 | 19:49 | 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 | 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, 7 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly120 obs
- princess tree107 obs
- common mugwort97 obs
- Porcelain Berry85 obs
- Asian bittersweet72 obs
- red deadnettle67 obs
- Japanese knotweed67 obs
- Rock Pigeon66 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/261701090
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 3 mi
- Queens · 3 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 5 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 5 mi
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