Hunts Point Playground
Hunts Point Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Barretto Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 16 m
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 4.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 18.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Barretto Park: 0.2 mi
- Julio Carballo Field: 0.2 mi
- Corporal Walter J Fufidio Square: 0.3 mi
- Joseph Rodman Drake Park: 0.3 mi
- Lafayette Avenue Park: 0.3 mi
- I Love the Bronx mural: 0.8 mi
- Big Pun mural: 0.8 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.4 mi
- Jungle World: 2.2 mi
- Nature Trek: 2.2 mi
- Aldus 111 Tenants Association Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Manor Avenue Seniors Garden: 0.9 mi
- Morning Glory Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Isla Verde Garden: 1.1 mi
- Franklin Memorial Garden: 1.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 1.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 3.1 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 3.8 mi
- Great Hill: 4.0 mi
- Long Hill: 4.2 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 1.5 mi
- Coral: 1.9 mi
- Dream Machine Ⅱ: 2.2 mi
- Crack Is Wack: 2.5 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 2.6 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 1.7 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 2.1 mi
- The Yankees Museum: 2.3 mi
- Universal Hip Hop Museum: 2.4 mi
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem: 3.0 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 1.7 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 4.0 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.7 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.0 mi
- Virginia Point: 7.8 mi
- The Bat: 2.4 mi
- Matthew Travis Palacios: 2.5 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.7 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.7 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.8 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.0 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.5 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.7 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.8 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.0 mi
- Street Seats: 5.5 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 9.4 mi
- The Backyard: 9.7 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 9.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.1 mi
- Palisades: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 6.1 mi
- Palisades: 7.7 mi
- The Palisades: 9.6 mi
- The Loch: 4.1 mi
- The Falls: 5.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.7 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 22.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.6 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Hunts Point Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 304° | 268 m | 19.6 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 304° | 260 m | 20.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 303° | 230 m | 19.4 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 11° | 211 m | 20.8 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 353° | 208 m | 16.4 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 303° | 180 m | 20.9 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 17° | 180 m | 21.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 270° | 179 m | 18.7 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, 2 mi away.
- common mugwort957 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly242 obs
- tree-of-heaven208 obs
- red deadnettle172 obs
- white snakeroot129 obs
- Mallard98 obs
- common dandelion93 obs
- Rock Pigeon85 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 node/357635259
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 3 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 4 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 4 mi
- Fort Lee · 5 mi
- Manhattan · 5 mi
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