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Fish Playground

Fish Playground from directly overhead

Fish Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 27 m. Mount Cecchino stands 230 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is BSCAH Saratoga Farm, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 10 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
27 m

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.67816, -73.91447

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • BSCAH Saratoga Farm: 0.1 mi
  • Phoenix Community Garden: 0.1 mi
  • 45 Somers Street Community Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Hull Street Garden: 0.4 mi
  • 700 Decatur Street Block Association Garden: 0.4 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Peaks: 51
Picnic sites: 42
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 8.1 mi
  • Palisades: 8.4 mi
  • Palisades: 9.9 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.8 mi
  • Palisades: 14.8 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • Binnen Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.2 mi
  • The Loch: 8.4 mi
  • The Falls: 15.0 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 Fish Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount CecchinoNW 323°230 m24.8 mi
Stony HillWNW 298°179 m19.5 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 289°175 m20.6 mi
Packanack MountainNW 316°144 m24.4 mi
Riker HillWNW 293°134 m23.4 mi
Todt HillWSW 243°125 m11.8 mi
Crawford HillSW 216°120 m24.4 mi
Harbor HillENE 60°106 m16.6 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 °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 7 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly256 obs
  • Rock Pigeon199 obs
  • princess tree178 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee161 obs
  • common mugwort156 obs
  • European Starling136 obs
  • House Sparrow133 obs
  • Mourning Dove124 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/1479494295

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