Gorman Playground
Gorman Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Gorman Playground Plaque, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 4.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 21.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Gorman Playground Plaque: 0.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Doughboy, WWI vets: 1.7 mi
- 9/11 woodside firefighters memorial: 1.7 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Home Plate 1964-2008: 1.9 mi
- O'Sullivan Plaza: 0.2 mi
- One Room Schoolhouse Park: 0.3 mi
- Planeview Park: 0.3 mi
- Bulova Park: 0.4 mi
- Playground Ninety: 0.5 mi
- Flight: 0.8 mi
- 3 Squirrels: 1.1 mi
- The Healer’s Touch: 1.2 mi
- Lucky: 1.3 mi
- Mahbuhay: 1.3 mi
- McIntosh Neighborhood Association Garden: 0.8 mi
- 97th Street Block Association Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Farm on hill by BQE: 1.0 mi
- Farm on other side of BQE: 1.0 mi
- Moore Jackson Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 1.3 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 2.0 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 2.1 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 2.1 mi
- Queens Museum: 2.3 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 1.9 mi
- Rocket Park: 2.0 mi
- Owl: 2.1 mi
- Canadian Lynx: 2.1 mi
- Aviary: 2.1 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.3 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.0 mi
- Janes Hill: 3.7 mi
- Mount Morris: 4.2 mi
- Great Hill: 4.6 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.7 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 6.8 mi
- Pebble Beach: 6.9 mi
- Parsons Beach: 6.9 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 7.4 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.6 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.7 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 7.1 mi
- Virginia Point: 7.4 mi
- Street Seats: 3.5 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.4 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.6 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.6 mi
- Palisades: 6.4 mi
- Palisades: 7.2 mi
- Palisades: 8.4 mi
- Palisades: 9.4 mi
- The Loch: 4.5 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.3 mi
- The Falls: 9.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 21.7 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.3 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.1 miles of Gorman Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 311° | 268 m | 21.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 311° | 260 m | 22.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 311° | 230 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 354° | 208 m | 19.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 310° | 180 m | 23.1 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 280° | 179 m | 19.1 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 272° | 175 m | 21.1 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 17° | 156 m | 22.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 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 | 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, 1 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven558 obs
- Rock Pigeon213 obs
- House Sparrow125 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel113 obs
- European Starling93 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly91 obs
- common mugwort80 obs
- Mourning Dove74 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/218395372
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 1 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 3 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 4 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Bronx · 5 mi
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