Eastchester Playground
Eastchester Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Lynch Triangle, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 25 m
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 4.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 14.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Lynch Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Angelo Campanaro Park: 0.5 mi
- Boston Road Garden: 0.6 mi
- Cavanaugh Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Mazzei Playground: 0.6 mi
- Ghost Bike: Michael Needham: 0.6 mi
- 9/11: 0.8 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 1.4 mi
- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Gravesite: 1.7 mi
- Pelham Bay Park World War Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 0.7 mi
- Farragut Monument: 1.7 mi
- Welcome to Woodlawn Mural: 2.1 mi
- 242 St. station: 2.4 mi
- Coyote: 2.7 mi
- 211th Street Block Association Garden: 0.8 mi
- Edible Academy: 1.2 mi
- Rockefeller Rose Garden: 1.3 mi
- Rock Garden: 1.4 mi
- Native Plant Garden: 1.4 mi
- Tillotson Steps: 0.8 mi
- Parking: 1.6 mi
- World of Birds: 1.7 mi
- Monkey House: 1.8 mi
- Madagascar!: 1.8 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 1.4 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 1.5 mi
- Poe Cottage: 2.2 mi
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 2.5 mi
- Glyndor Gallery: 3.7 mi
- Vault Hill: 2.8 mi
- Marble Hill: 3.1 mi
- Bronx High Point: 3.3 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 3.5 mi
- Tetards Hill: 3.5 mi
- Glen Island: 3.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.9 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.1 mi
- Canoe Beach: 4.7 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 4.8 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 4.3 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 4.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 4.5 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 4.5 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 6.4 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.5 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- Street Seats: 9.7 mi
- Reserved Picnic Site: 11.5 mi
- Palisades: 4.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.2 mi
- The Palisades: 6.6 mi
- Palisades: 7.5 mi
- Palisades: 8.3 mi
- The Falls: 1.4 mi
- The Loch: 7.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 15.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 15.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 15.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 6.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 6.4 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 13.6 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 18.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 19.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 9.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.2 mi
- Cuties Island: 21.2 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.4 miles of Eastchester Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 291° | 268 m | 19.3 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 292° | 260 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 290° | 230 m | 19.3 mi |
| Sarles Hill | N 10° | 216 m | 19.6 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 349° | 214 m | 17.7 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 7° | 211 m | 16.8 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 343° | 208 m | 13.0 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 15° | 180 m | 16.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:47 | 16:31 |
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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 2 mi away.
- lesser celandine2,635 obs
- common mugwort2,211 obs
- white snakeroot1,905 obs
- American Robin583 obs
- American pokeweed544 obs
- northern spicebush520 obs
- garlic mustard473 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel457 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/1009324606
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Mount Vernon · 3 mi
- Pelham · 4 mi
- Bronxville · 5 mi
- New Rochelle · 5 mi
- Yonkers · 5 mi
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