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Four Acre Park

Four Acre Park from directly overhead

Four Acre Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 41 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Manhasset Gold Star Monument, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.9 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Manhasset Park District

How to reach it

Coordinates40.78912, -73.68928

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Gardens
  • Greentree Walled Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Freddy's Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Colonial Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Formal Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Clark Community Garden: 2.8 mi
Parks
Artworks
Beaches
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 2.1 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 2.3 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 3.2 mi
  • Parsons Beach: 3.6 mi
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 2.7 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Mill Neck Peak: 9.6 mi
  • Harrison Williams Woods Peak: 10.5 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 11.7 mi
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 7.6 mi
  • Circle Garden: 7.6 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 7.7 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Pinetum: 7.7 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • West Lindens: 7.1 mi
  • Lindens B: 7.1 mi
  • North Maples: 7.1 mi
  • Lindens A: 7.1 mi
  • Cedars: 7.1 mi
Cliffs: 13
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Falls: 10.5 mi
  • The Loch: 14.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 17.0 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 17.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 17.2 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Four Acre Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillNNW 344°211 m23.1 mi
Mount NeboNW 325°208 m21.8 mi
Reynolds HillN 349°180 m22.3 mi
Round HillN 2°172 m21.8 mi
Cooney HillN 354°170 m21.7 mi
Kennelwood HillN 349°156 m19.6 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 339°147 m22.3 mi
Beaver HillNNW 339°140 m20.5 mi

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, 5 mi away.

  • American Robin55 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel47 obs
  • Mourning Dove33 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail33 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly27 obs
  • Blue Jay26 obs
  • American tuliptree21 obs
  • garlic mustard21 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/918943242

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