Flushing Fields
Flushing Fields is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Hart Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 21 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 4.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 19.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hart Playground: 0.1 mi
- Greenstreets: 0.1 mi
- Greenstreets: 0.2 mi
- Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
- Greenstreets: 0.2 mi
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 0.7 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 0.8 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 0.9 mi
- John Bowne House: 0.9 mi
- Queens Museum: 2.5 mi
- Weeping Beech Historical Marker: 0.8 mi
- Fox Oaks: 0.9 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 1.0 mi
- World War 2: 1.7 mi
- Kissena Park World War I Monument: 2.0 mi
- Perpetual Nature: 1.4 mi
- Poppenhusen: 1.8 mi
- Seal: 1.8 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Tom Seaver: 2.0 mi
- Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 1.7 mi
- Pinetum: 1.7 mi
- Oak Allée: 1.7 mi
- Floral Border: 1.7 mi
- Circle Garden: 1.7 mi
- Wedding Garden: 1.7 mi
- Children's Garden: 1.8 mi
- Queens Botanical Garden: 1.8 mi
- Evergreen Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Althea Gibson Sculpture Garden: 2.3 mi
- Parsons Beach: 3.3 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 6.2 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 6.6 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.7 mi
- PWEA Beach: 6.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.3 mi
- Virginia Point: 3.8 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 5.9 mi
- Half Moon Wetland Conservancy: 7.4 mi
- Barbara Johnson Preserve: 7.5 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 5.2 mi
- Queens High Point: 5.2 mi
- Janes Hill: 5.6 mi
- Laurel Hill: 6.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 6.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.9 mi
- Street Seats: 7.1 mi
- Picnic Area D: 9.7 mi
- Picnic Area C: 9.7 mi
- Picnic Area F: 9.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.4 mi
- Palisades: 10.4 mi
- Palisades: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 12.0 mi
- The Loch: 7.6 mi
- The Falls: 8.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 7.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 18.5 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 21.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 11.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.5 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Flushing Fields. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buttermilk Hill | N 1° | 211 m | 23.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 343° | 208 m | 19.8 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | N 6° | 180 m | 23.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 277° | 179 m | 22.5 mi |
| Cooney Hill | N 11° | 170 m | 23.0 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | N 9° | 156 m | 20.5 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 356° | 147 m | 21.8 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 358° | 140 m | 20.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:31 |
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 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
- marsh elder157 obs
- Rock Pigeon144 obs
- common mugwort128 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly124 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel119 obs
- American Robin96 obs
- Mallard95 obs
- House Sparrow94 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 siteOpenStreetMap element way/113727167
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 1 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 4 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 5 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 5 mi
- Bronx · 6 mi
- Manhasset · 7 mi
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