Park · New York
Dutch Kills Playground
Dutch Kills Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sixteen Oaks Grove, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.75710, -73.93336
- 5.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 6.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 23.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Sixteen Oaks Grove: 0.3 mi
- Windmill Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- A.R.R.O.W. Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Ravenswood Playground: 0.4 mi
- Spirit Playground: 0.5 mi
Museums
- Museum of the Moving Image: 0.5 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 0.5 mi
- The Noguchi Museum: 0.7 mi
- MoMA PS1: 1.1 mi
- Mount Vernon Hotel Museum: 1.4 mi
Artworks
- Rocket: 0.6 mi
- Bear: 0.6 mi
- Rocket: 0.6 mi
- Athena: 0.9 mi
- Welcome to Queens: 0.9 mi
Gardens
- Hellsgate Farms: 0.8 mi
- Roosevelt Island Garden Club: 0.9 mi
- 45th Street Composters: 1.1 mi
- Two Coves Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Entry Court: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
- Gelasio Reyes: 0.9 mi
- Ghost Bike: 1.1 mi
- Site of the Sunnyside Garden Arena: 1.2 mi
- Smallpox Hospital: 1.4 mi
- Doughboy, WWI vets: 1.5 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 0.9 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 4.7 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 4.8 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 5.4 mi
Attractions
- Blackwell House: 1.0 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 1.0 mi
- Roosevelt Island Sign: 1.1 mi
- Pepsi-Cola Sign: 1.4 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 1.7 mi
Peaks
- Laurel Hill: 2.0 mi
- Vista Rock: 2.4 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.6 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.6 mi
- Great Hill: 3.1 mi
Nature reserves
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 2.3 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 2.4 mi
- Bird Island: 5.4 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.8 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 6.7 mi
Picnic sites: 44
- Street Seats: 0.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.4 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.6 mi
Cliffs: 16
- Palisades: 4.7 mi
- Palisades: 4.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Palisades: 5.8 mi
- Palisades: 9.3 mi
Waterfalls: 10
- The Loch: 2.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.9 mi
- The Falls: 10.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.5 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 20.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 20.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 23.1 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.3 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 18.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Dutch Kills Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 317° | 268 m | 20.2 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 316° | 260 m | 21.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 316° | 230 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 1° | 208 m | 20.2 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 315° | 185 m | 21.7 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 315° | 180 m | 21.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 283° | 179 m | 16.7 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 274° | 175 m | 18.6 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven2,658 obs
- Rock Pigeon1,831 obs
- Box Sucker1,284 obs
- princess tree1,101 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod1,044 obs
- common mugwort977 obs
- Mourning Dove976 obs
- white snakeroot804 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/134164229
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- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 2 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 3 mi
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