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Hinton Park

Hinton Park from directly overhead

Hinton Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Louis Armstrong Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.8 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
3 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.75618, -73.85507

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Artworks
Attractions
  • Rocket Park: 0.6 mi
  • Aviary: 0.7 mi
  • Owl: 0.7 mi
  • Canadian Lynx: 0.8 mi
  • Roosevelt Elk: 0.8 mi
Peaks
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Janes Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Mount Morris: 5.7 mi
  • Great Hill: 6.1 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.3 mi
  • Parsons Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Pebble Beach: 7.9 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 8.6 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 19
  • Coogan's Bluff: 6.9 mi
  • Palisades: 8.0 mi
  • Palisades: 8.7 mi
  • Palisades: 9.9 mi
  • Palisades: 10.4 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Loch: 6.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.9 mi
  • The Falls: 9.2 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 22.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Hinton Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 310°268 m23.3 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 309°230 m23.1 mi
Mount NeboN 350°208 m20.6 mi
Stony HillW 281°179 m20.7 mi
Mayapple HillW 273°175 m22.7 mi
Kennelwood HillNNE 13°156 m22.1 mi
Kykuit HillN 1°147 m23.0 mi
Packanack MountainWNW 301°144 m23.5 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.

  • tree-of-heaven388 obs
  • Rock Pigeon307 obs
  • Mallard205 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel202 obs
  • House Sparrow197 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly170 obs
  • American Robin164 obs
  • European Starling154 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/277477830

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