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Great Kills Veterans Playground

Great Kills Veterans Playground from directly overhead

Great Kills Veterans Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Gillespie Hill stands 217 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Horseshoe Crab, a artwork 0.6 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
21 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.54705, -74.15188
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
Historic sites
  • Flag of Honor: 0.7 mi
  • Barn Foundation: 1.7 mi
  • First County Jail: 1.7 mi
  • Carriage Manufactory: 1.7 mi
  • Site of 1st County Courthouse: 1.8 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
Museums
Attractions
  • Buck’s Hollow: 2.6 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 2.6 mi
  • New York City Farm Colony: 3.4 mi
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 3.4 mi
  • Jurassic Park: 3.9 mi
Gardens
Peaks: 53
  • Todt Hill: 4.2 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 5.2 mi
  • Signal Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Fox Hills: 6.1 mi
  • Park Hill: 6.2 mi
Picnic sites: 32
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 6.7 mi
  • Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 11.2 mi
  • Freedom Field: 11.4 mi
  • Picnic Peninsula: 12.9 mi
  • Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 13.0 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Palisades: 14.7 mi
  • Hawk Hill: 15.6 mi
  • Palisades: 16.8 mi
  • Palisades: 20.0 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 21.9 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Fallkill Falls: 12.3 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 12.5 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Seele: 15.6 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 15.8 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 16.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Gillespie HillNW 311°217 m24.9 mi
Mount KembleNW 308°215 m24.6 mi
Kinneys HillNW 314°180 m24.5 mi
Stony HillNNW 345°179 m18.9 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 335°175 m17.2 mi
Second Watchung MountainW 281°168 m21.2 mi
Kemble MountainNW 313°166 m24.6 mi
Horse HillNW 320°144 m24.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:31
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1715:5016:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Honey Bee153 obs
  • Canada Goose141 obs
  • American Robin138 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee137 obs
  • Huron Skipper126 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird123 obs
  • Mallard115 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee113 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/35597032

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