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Finn Square

Finn Square from directly overhead

Finn Square is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is FDNY Ladder 8, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 9.6 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.71875, -74.00685

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
  • FDNY Ladder 8: 0.1 mi
  • Dream house: 0.1 mi
  • Textile building: 0.1 mi
  • Cortlandt Alley: 0.2 mi
  • Queen of Green Street: 0.3 mi
Artworks
Museums
Parks
Gardens
Historic sites
Beaches
Peaks
  • Grassy Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Outlook Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Slide Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Discovery Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Kings Bluff: 3.3 mi
Picnic sites: 42
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 2.6 mi
  • Palisades: 3.6 mi
  • Palisades: 6.3 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.6 mi
  • Palisades: 12.4 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 4.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 4.5 mi
  • The Loch: 5.8 mi
  • The Falls: 14.6 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 15.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.5 miles of Finn Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 330°268 m20.1 mi
Waughaw MountainNW 311°263 m24.1 mi
Beech MountainNNW 329°260 m21.1 mi
Mount CecchinoNNW 330°230 m19.8 mi
Mount NeboN 10°208 m23.2 mi
Poacher PeakNNW 327°185 m21.4 mi
Moon HillNNW 328°180 m21.1 mi
Stony HillWNW 298°179 m14.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4916:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.

  • Rock Pigeon3,184 obs
  • House Sparrow1,829 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel1,761 obs
  • Western Honey Bee1,487 obs
  • Monarch1,389 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly1,321 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,240 obs
  • European Starling1,110 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/219612698

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