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Evergreen Playground

Evergreen Playground from directly overhead

Evergreen Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Cooper Street Block Association Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.7 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
16 m

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.68607, -73.91085

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Peaks: 52
  • Laurel Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 3.2 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 3.5 mi
Picnic sites: 44
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 8.0 mi
  • Palisades: 8.2 mi
  • Palisades: 9.5 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.2 mi
  • Palisades: 14.3 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • Binnen Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.6 mi
  • The Loch: 7.9 mi
  • The Falls: 14.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 20.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 323°268 m24.7 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 322°230 m24.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 297°179 m19.5 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 287°175 m20.7 mi
Packanack MountainNW 314°144 m24.2 mi
Riker HillWNW 292°134 m23.4 mi
Todt HillWSW 241°125 m12.2 mi
Crawford HillSW 216°120 m24.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
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, 7 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly297 obs
  • Rock Pigeon208 obs
  • princess tree194 obs
  • common mugwort179 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee160 obs
  • tree-of-heaven158 obs
  • House Sparrow127 obs
  • European Starling126 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/1479481363

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