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Hermon A MacNeil Park

Hermon A MacNeil Park from directly overhead

Hermon A MacNeil Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Poppenhusen Triangle, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 2.4 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
4 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.79284, -73.85179

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • I Love the Bronx mural: 3.0 mi
  • Deciduous Conifer Forest: 3.1 mi
  • Rocket Park: 3.1 mi
  • Big Pun mural: 3.1 mi
  • Meadow: 3.1 mi
Peaks
  • Janes Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Mount Morris: 4.9 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 4.9 mi
  • Great Hill: 5.6 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 5.7 mi
Beaches
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 19
  • Coogan's Bluff: 5.3 mi
  • Palisades: 7.4 mi
  • Palisades: 8.3 mi
  • Palisades: 9.0 mi
  • Palisades: 10.6 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Loch: 5.6 mi
  • The Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 10.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.0 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 23.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Hermon A MacNeil Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 304°268 m21.9 mi
Mount CecchinoWNW 303°230 m21.7 mi
Buttermilk HillN 6°211 m22.0 mi
Mount NeboNNW 348°208 m18.1 mi
Reynolds HillNNE 11°180 m22.0 mi
Stony HillW 274°179 m20.5 mi
Cooney HillNNE 16°170 m22.2 mi
Kennelwood HillNNE 14°156 m19.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

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, 2 mi away.

  • common mugwort2,868 obs
  • groundsel tree170 obs
  • tree-of-heaven137 obs
  • white snakeroot122 obs
  • common reed109 obs
  • Atlantic Ribbed Mussel73 obs
  • Italian Wall Lizard64 obs
  • Saltmarsh Cordgrass56 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/113727163

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