Fairmount Playground
Fairmount Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 30 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairmount Playground Court, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 0.9 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 30 m
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 3.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 17.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fairmount Playground Court: 0.0 mi
- Prospect Playground: 0.1 mi
- Admiral Farragut Playground: 0.1 mi
- Mohegan Triangle: 0.3 mi
- Walter Gladwin Park: 0.3 mi
- Tremont Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Seabury MBD Community Park: 0.4 mi
- Garden of Happiness: 0.5 mi
- Hornaday Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Angie Lee-Gonzalez and Luis Gonzalez Garden: 0.5 mi
- Congo Gorilla Forest: 0.5 mi
- African Wild Dogs: 0.6 mi
- Carter Giraffe Building: 0.6 mi
- Nature Trek: 0.6 mi
- Flamingos: 0.6 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 1.2 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 1.8 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 2.0 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 2.3 mi
- Columnade: 2.6 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 1.5 mi
- 9/11: 2.0 mi
- McNally Plaza: 2.1 mi
- Ghost Bike: Michael Needham: 2.1 mi
- West 184th Street: 2.2 mi
- Poe Cottage: 1.6 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 1.8 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 1.8 mi
- The Yankees Museum: 2.1 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 2.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.4 mi
- Marble Hill: 2.6 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 2.6 mi
- Long Hill: 2.7 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.9 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 2.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.8 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 6.8 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.9 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 7.0 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.9 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.1 mi
- Hazard Beach: 3.7 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.9 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 4.1 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.8 mi
- Street Seats: 7.1 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.4 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- The Backyard: 9.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 2.7 mi
- Palisades: 4.3 mi
- Palisades: 5.8 mi
- The Palisades: 7.6 mi
- Palisades: 8.5 mi
- The Falls: 4.1 mi
- The Loch: 4.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 13.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 13.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 13.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.9 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.3 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 21.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.9 mi
- Cuties Island: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.7 miles of Fairmount Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 299° | 268 m | 18.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 299° | 260 m | 19.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 298° | 230 m | 18.3 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 356° | 214 m | 19.3 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 12° | 211 m | 18.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 352° | 208 m | 14.4 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 19° | 180 m | 19.2 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 298° | 180 m | 19.7 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 | 18:18 | 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 | 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 celandine2,361 obs
- common mugwort1,709 obs
- white snakeroot1,693 obs
- American Robin599 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel568 obs
- northern spicebush487 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly441 obs
- American pokeweed430 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/1073423130
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 0 mi
- Fort Lee · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 4 mi
- Englewood · 6 mi
- Manhattan · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 6 mi
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