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Floral Park Recreation Center

Floral Park Recreation Center from directly overhead

Floral Park Recreation Center is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 28 m. Kennelwood Hill stands 156 m to the north, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Nuzzi Field, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
28 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Incorporated Village of Floral Park

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.72589, -73.69513
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Nuzzi Field: 0.1 mi
  • Colonial Gardens Park: 0.2 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
  • Heritage Park: 0.6 mi
  • Stewart Manor Country Club: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
  • Giving Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Childrens Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Greenstreets: 1.6 mi
  • Garden World: 2.1 mi
  • Pollinator Place: 2.6 mi
Nature reserves
Artworks
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 4.4 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 6.4 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.5 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 6.6 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 7.5 mi
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 6.4 mi
  • JFK: 7.0 mi
  • Circle Garden: 7.1 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 7.1 mi
  • Unity Garden: 7.1 mi
Peaks: 52
  • Queens High Point: 2.5 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 5.8 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 10.6 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 11.9 mi
  • Janes Hill: 12.8 mi
Picnic sites: 31
  • Accessible Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 5.9 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 5.9 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 6.0 mi
Cliffs: 12
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 5
  • The Falls: 13.6 mi
  • The Loch: 14.6 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 14.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 15.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 15.1 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kennelwood HillN 352°156 m23.8 mi
Beaver HillNNW 344°140 m24.6 mi
Todt HillWSW 249°125 m23.6 mi
Jayne's HillENE 66°122 m15.4 mi
Harbor HillNNE 30°106 m5.8 mi
West HillsENE 66°106 m15.1 mi
Dix HillsENE 70°92 m18.9 mi
Signal HillENE 70°90 m18.2 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, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mourning Dove52 obs
  • American Robin48 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel36 obs
  • Northern Cardinal32 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail32 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly27 obs
  • Italian Wall Lizard26 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk24 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/488088212

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