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Hillside Park

Hillside Park from directly overhead

Hillside Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 31 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Greenstreets, a park 0.6 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 10 miles off. 56 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
31 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.74083, -73.71278
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Greenstreets: 0.7 mi
  • Pollinator Place: 1.4 mi
  • Giving Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Childrens Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Windsor Oaks: 2.0 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Nature reserves
Artworks
  • Reclaimed Habitat: 1.9 mi
  • Turtle Statue: 2.0 mi
  • Dog: 2.6 mi
  • Jam Master Jay: 3.1 mi
  • Turnabout: 3.5 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 3.1 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 5.3 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 5.5 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 5.6 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 6.5 mi
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 5.4 mi
  • Circle Garden: 6.0 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 6.0 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 6.0 mi
  • Unity Garden: 6.0 mi
Peaks: 56
  • Queens High Point: 1.2 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 5.6 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 9.7 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 11.0 mi
  • Janes Hill: 11.5 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Accessible Picnic Area: 5.7 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 6.6 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 6.6 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 6.8 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 6.8 mi
Cliffs: 12
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 5
  • The Falls: 12.2 mi
  • The Loch: 13.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 14.4 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 14.4 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 14.6 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 332°208 m24.0 mi
Cooney HillN 358°170 m24.9 mi
Kennelwood HillN 354°156 m22.7 mi
Beaver HillNNW 345°140 m23.3 mi
Hackley HillNNW 343°140 m24.0 mi
Tappan HillNNW 342°127 m24.1 mi
Todt HillWSW 245°125 m23.2 mi
Jayne's HillENE 71°122 m15.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

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

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander285 obs
  • Spring Peeper275 obs
  • American Robin266 obs
  • American beech253 obs
  • eastern poison ivy240 obs
  • garlic mustard222 obs
  • American jumpseed209 obs
  • multiflora rose202 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 node/357640540

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