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Eight Oaks Triangle

Eight Oaks Triangle from directly overhead

Eight Oaks Triangle is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 29 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is courtyard, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.4 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
29 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.70725, -73.82717

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Gardens
  • Veteran Memorial Garden Of Queens: 0.5 mi
  • George Eagle Carr Community Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Ian MacLennan Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Dunton Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Thomas X. Winberry Garden: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Peaks: 54
  • Maspeth Plateau: 4.1 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Queens High Point: 6.6 mi
  • Willink Hill: 7.8 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 8.0 mi
Picnic sites: 41
  • Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.3 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 6.3 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 6.3 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 6.4 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 6.4 mi
Cliffs: 17
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.5 mi
  • Palisades: 11.0 mi
  • Palisades: 11.1 mi
  • Palisades: 11.6 mi
  • Palisades: 14.1 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Waterfalls: 8
  • Binnen Falls: 7.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.2 mi
  • The Loch: 9.2 mi
  • The Falls: 12.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 24.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Eight Oaks Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 348°208 m24.2 mi
Stony HillWNW 289°179 m23.0 mi
Mayapple HillW 281°175 m24.6 mi
Beaver HillN 360°140 m24.9 mi
Todt HillWSW 244°125 m16.8 mi
Jayne's HillENE 70°122 m22.3 mi
Harbor HillENE 57°106 m11.7 mi
West HillsENE 70°106 m22.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

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

  • Rock Pigeon303 obs
  • garlic mustard303 obs
  • Asian bittersweet294 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel277 obs
  • American Robin225 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly223 obs
  • common mugwort218 obs
  • multiflora rose215 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/964987398

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