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Garden Playground

Garden Playground from directly overhead

Garden Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Beaver Noll Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.2 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
12 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.70108, -73.93839

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Museums
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks
  • Brooklyn: 0.8 mi
  • Tiger: 0.9 mi
  • Shai Asia Semple: 1.0 mi
  • Virgin Mary: 1.2 mi
  • Prayer: 1.2 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 2.7 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 3.2 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.5 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.6 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.7 mi
Peaks: 57
  • Laurel Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 3.0 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 3.3 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.2 mi
  • Palisades: 6.4 mi
  • Palisades: 7.9 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.1 mi
  • Palisades: 13.2 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.2 mi
  • The Loch: 6.6 mi
  • The Falls: 13.9 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 324°268 m23.0 mi
Beech MountainNW 323°260 m24.1 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 323°230 m22.8 mi
Mount NeboN 1°208 m24.0 mi
Poacher PeakNW 322°185 m24.5 mi
Moon HillNW 322°180 m24.2 mi
Stony HillWNW 296°179 m17.7 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 285°175 m19.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 6 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly775 obs
  • tree-of-heaven560 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee489 obs
  • Rock Pigeon440 obs
  • common mugwort428 obs
  • princess tree343 obs
  • House Sparrow341 obs
  • Mourning Dove309 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/1479494317

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