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John Golden Park

John Golden Park from directly overhead

John Golden Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 20 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Crocheron Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 6.4 miles off.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.77431, -73.76877

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 0.8 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 4.6 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 4.7 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 5.5 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Mitchel Wallace Triangle: 1.6 mi
  • Cloverdale Gardens at Bayside: 1.9 mi
  • House Beautiful: 2.1 mi
  • The Estates at Bayside: 2.1 mi
  • Winsor Oaks: 2.4 mi
Museums
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 2.8 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 7.0 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 7.4 mi
  • Janes Hill: 7.9 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 8.6 mi
Attractions
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 3.4 mi
  • Circle Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Pinetum: 3.4 mi
  • Unity Garden: 3.5 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Picnic Area D: 8.9 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 9.0 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 9.1 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 9.1 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 9.2 mi
Cliffs: 19
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Falls: 8.7 mi
  • The Loch: 10.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 12.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.2 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.9 miles of John Golden Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 337°208 m20.7 mi
Reynolds HillN 360°180 m22.9 mi
Cooney HillN 5°170 m22.6 mi
Kennelwood HillN 2°156 m20.3 mi
Kykuit HillN 350°147 m22.1 mi
Beaver HillN 351°140 m20.5 mi
Hackley HillNNW 349°140 m21.0 mi
Tappan HillNNW 348°127 m21.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4716:31

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, 6 mi away.

  • common milkweed377 obs
  • common mugwort364 obs
  • common reed303 obs
  • garlic mustard289 obs
  • lesser celandine259 obs
  • Canada Goose256 obs
  • Mute Swan222 obs
  • multiflora rose209 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/113727169

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