Jacob's Ladder Playground
Jacob's Ladder Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Roberto Clemente Ballfield, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.6 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 10.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 27.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Roberto Clemente Ballfield: 0.1 mi
- Cohn Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Epiphany Playground: 0.3 mi
- Roebling Playground: 0.3 mi
- Bedford Playground: 0.3 mi
- Old crane: 0.2 mi
- Boar: 0.5 mi
- Boar: 0.5 mi
- Bucket Conveyor: 0.6 mi
- Lounge Screw Conveyor: 0.7 mi
- La Casita Verde: 0.2 mi
- Brooklyn Grange: 0.5 mi
- Berry Street Garden: 0.6 mi
- Keap Fourth Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Hooper Grove: 0.7 mi
- George Washington: 0.5 mi
- Prison Ship Martyrs Monument: 1.0 mi
- Matt Brenner: 1.1 mi
- McLaughlin Park World War I Memorial: 1.1 mi
- William Jay Gaynor: 1.3 mi
- Building 92: 0.6 mi
- The City Reliquary: 0.9 mi
- Vistor Center: 1.0 mi
- Spark Brooklyn Children's Museum Annex: 1.1 mi
- Brooklyn Bridge Park Environmental Education Center: 1.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 1.2 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 1.8 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 3.2 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 3.3 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 3.8 mi
- Zohramp: 1.3 mi
- Jane's Carousel: 1.3 mi
- Brooklyn Flea: 1.4 mi
- Lower East Side Skatepark: 1.4 mi
- Brooklyn Bridge: 1.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.7 mi
- Bird Island: 1.8 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.3 mi
- Audubon Park: 6.3 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 7.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 2.8 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 3.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 3.2 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 1.7 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 1.9 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 1.9 mi
- Street Seats: 3.3 mi
- Freedom Field: 4.8 mi
- Palisades: 4.8 mi
- Palisades: 5.3 mi
- Palisades: 7.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 9.0 mi
- Palisades: 13.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 2.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 3.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.0 mi
- The Loch: 6.2 mi
- The Falls: 14.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 3.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.7 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 16.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 16.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.6 mi
- Barber: 19.5 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 17.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Jacob's Ladder Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 327° | 268 m | 22.0 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 326° | 260 m | 23.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 326° | 230 m | 21.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 5° | 208 m | 23.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 324° | 185 m | 23.4 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 325° | 180 m | 23.1 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 297° | 179 m | 16.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 286° | 175 m | 17.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly1,246 obs
- Rock Pigeon1,034 obs
- Monarch933 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee900 obs
- House Sparrow758 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel678 obs
- Mourning Dove661 obs
- American Robin622 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 way/207179573
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 1 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 1 mi
- Downstate New York · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 2 mi
- Manhattan/East Village · 2 mi
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