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Elderfields Preserve

Elderfields Preserve from directly overhead

Elderfields Preserve is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 45 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Hewlett House Green, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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County of Nassau, Long Island, New York
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.80680, -73.67104

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hewlett House Green: 0.1 mi
  • Milton Hopkins Green: 0.1 mi
  • Walter Uhl Green: 0.1 mi
  • Old Farm Green: 0.2 mi
  • Howard Fein Green: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Saint Francis Hospital 9/11 Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • Franciscan Missionaries Marker: 0.2 mi
  • Munsey Park Vietnam Memorial: 0.9 mi
  • Roslyn Grist Mill: 1.2 mi
  • Cedarmere: 1.4 mi
Artworks
Museums
Gardens
  • Colonial Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Formal Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Greentree Walled Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Freddy's Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Clark Community Garden: 2.9 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Harbor Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Queens High Point: 4.2 mi
  • Mill Neck Peak: 8.1 mi
  • Harrison Williams Woods Peak: 9.0 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 10.4 mi
Beaches
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 2.0 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 2.1 mi
  • Harry Tappen Beach: 2.3 mi
  • Beacon Hill Residences Beach: 2.4 mi
Attractions
Picnic sites: 39
  • Lindens B: 7.2 mi
  • West Lindens: 7.2 mi
  • Lindens A: 7.2 mi
  • North Maples: 7.2 mi
  • Cedars: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 13
Lighthouses: 8
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Falls: 10.5 mi
  • The Loch: 15.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 18.4 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 18.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 18.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 18.5 mi
  • Vince Lombardi Service Area: 18.8 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 23.8 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 23.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Elderfields Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillNNW 341°211 m22.2 mi
Mount NeboNW 321°208 m21.4 mi
Reynolds HillNNW 346°180 m21.3 mi
Round HillN 360°172 m20.5 mi
Cooney HillN 351°170 m20.6 mi
Kennelwood HillNNW 346°156 m18.6 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 335°147 m21.5 mi
Beaver HillNNW 336°140 m19.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

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

Wildlife nearby
  • American Robin48 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail37 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab35 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly34 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee28 obs
  • lesser celandine27 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage24 obs
  • Norway maple23 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/863812584

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