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Fresh Meadows Playground

Fresh Meadows Playground from directly overhead

Fresh Meadows Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 14 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Chris Postiglione Triangle, a garden 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 7.4 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates40.73411, -73.79606
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Chris Postiglione Triangle: 0.3 mi
  • Cunningham Park Entrance: 1.2 mi
  • Cunningham Park Entrance: 1.2 mi
  • Urban Agriculture: 1.2 mi
  • Evergreen Community Garden: 1.6 mi
Parks
  • Utopia Playground: 0.3 mi
  • Electric Playground: 0.5 mi
  • Emerald Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Edgar G. Holmes, Jr. Oval: 0.6 mi
  • Judge Hockert Triangle: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 1.0 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Circle Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Unity Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 2.0 mi
Museums
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.6 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 7.7 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 7.7 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks: 59
  • Queens High Point: 4.3 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 5.4 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 6.6 mi
  • Janes Hill: 8.1 mi
  • Mount Morris: 9.1 mi
Picnic sites: 41
  • Picnic Area D: 6.7 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 6.8 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 6.9 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 6.9 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 7.0 mi
Cliffs: 17
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.1 mi
  • Palisades: 11.4 mi
  • Palisades: 12.0 mi
  • Palisades: 13.0 mi
  • Palisades: 13.3 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Loch: 9.5 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 10.5 mi
  • The Falls: 10.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fresh Meadows Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 343°208 m22.8 mi
Stony HillWNW 283°179 m24.0 mi
Kennelwood HillN 5°156 m23.1 mi
Kykuit HillN 354°147 m24.7 mi
Beaver HillN 356°140 m23.1 mi
Hackley HillN 353°140 m23.5 mi
Tappan HillN 353°127 m23.6 mi
Todt HillWSW 241°125 m19.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel560 obs
  • American Robin326 obs
  • common mugwort294 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly266 obs
  • Wood Duck246 obs
  • Canada Goose236 obs
  • Rock Pigeon226 obs
  • Pond Slider220 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/618063127

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