Frank M. Charles Memorial Park
Frank M. Charles Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Hamilton Beach Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 12 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- National Park Service
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 15.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 28.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hamilton Beach Park: 0.3 mi
- Walter Ward Playground: 0.8 mi
- Locust Grove Civic Triangle: 1.3 mi
- Lefferts Playground: 1.3 mi
- Harold Schneiderman Playground: 1.4 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 1.0 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 2.6 mi
- Rookery: 3.0 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 4.1 mi
- Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula: 4.1 mi
- Euclid Pine Block Association: 2.4 mi
- Euclid Garden: 2.6 mi
- 142nd Place & St. Block Association: 2.6 mi
- Manley's Place: 2.9 mi
- Crystal/Wells Community Garden: 3.0 mi
- JFK: 2.4 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 3.7 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 4.6 mi
- Welcome Center: 6.0 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 6.5 mi
- Voice of Tomorrow: 2.7 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 2.7 mi
- The Young Rembrandt: 2.8 mi
- History of Time: 2.8 mi
- Mastodon: 2.9 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.7 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 3.0 mi
- King Manor Museum: 4.0 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 4.6 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 5.1 mi
- TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 2.9 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 3.5 mi
- Betty Smith 1943: 3.5 mi
- Richmond Hill Branch: 3.6 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.1 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 4.8 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 5.4 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 5.9 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 2: 5.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 6.6 mi
- Willink Hill: 6.9 mi
- Breeze Hill: 7.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 7.2 mi
- Lookout Hill: 7.3 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 2.3 mi
- Picnic Area C: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Area D: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Area F: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Area G: 5.1 mi
- Palisades: 12.8 mi
- Palisades: 12.9 mi
- Palisades: 13.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Palisades: 17.7 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 15.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 15.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.3 mi
- The Loch: 12.0 mi
- The Falls: 16.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 22.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.4 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.5 mi
- Barber: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Frank M. Charles Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 298° | 179 m | 24.2 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 257° | 125 m | 15.1 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 62° | 122 m | 24.3 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 44° | 106 m | 14.5 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 61° | 106 m | 24.0 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 348° | 85 m | 17.6 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | ENE 62° | 85 m | 22.3 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | NNW 339° | 81 m | 15.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly116 obs
- Brant102 obs
- common mugwort71 obs
- Lesser Yellowlegs65 obs
- Laughing Gull64 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab63 obs
- Great Egret61 obs
- Canada Goose60 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/201152506
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 6 mi
- Queens · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 7 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 8 mi
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