Joseph F. Mafera Park
Joseph F. Mafera Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 31 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Ridgewood Garden, a garden 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.1 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 8.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 10.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 25.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Ridgewood Garden: 0.3 mi
- Korean Square: 0.6 mi
- Ridgewood Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Sunset Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Arboleda de Ninos/Children's Grove: 1.4 mi
- Frank C. Prokop Square War Memorial: 0.3 mi
- General Slocum Disaster Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Korean Square: 0.6 mi
- Edward R Miller Square: 0.8 mi
- Ridgewood War Memorial: 0.9 mi
- "Uncle" Vito E. Maranzano Glendale Playground: 0.5 mi
- Drumn Circle: 0.6 mi
- Glendale Veterans Triangle: 0.7 mi
- Rosemary's Playground: 0.7 mi
- Evergreen Park: 0.7 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 1.5 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.3 mi
- The Bone Museum: 2.4 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 2.9 mi
- Museum of Food and Drink: 3.2 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 1.9 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 2.2 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 2.6 mi
- Education Center: 3.3 mi
- Domestic Animals: 3.3 mi
- Dolphin: 1.9 mi
- Once Upon a Time/ Paper Jungle: 2.2 mi
- Shotgun Home (America): 2.2 mi
- Waking Blind: 2.2 mi
- African American Marbleization: 2.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 4.3 mi
- Bird Island: 5.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.0 mi
- Rookery: 6.1 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.9 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.2 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 5.4 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 5.7 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 6.7 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 1.7 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.3 mi
- Willink Hill: 4.9 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 5.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 5.1 mi
- Street Seats: 4.2 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.7 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.8 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 7.2 mi
- Palisades: 8.1 mi
- Palisades: 8.3 mi
- Palisades: 8.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 9.0 mi
- Palisades: 13.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.3 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 17.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 17.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.2 mi
- The Loch: 7.0 mi
- The Falls: 12.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.2 mi
- Barber: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Joseph F. Mafera Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 319° | 268 m | 24.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 318° | 230 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 356° | 208 m | 23.7 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 292° | 179 m | 19.8 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 283° | 175 m | 21.3 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 310° | 144 m | 24.0 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 288° | 134 m | 23.9 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 238° | 125 m | 13.8 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, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly251 obs
- House Sparrow188 obs
- Rock Pigeon169 obs
- common mugwort147 obs
- princess tree138 obs
- prickly lettuce137 obs
- Mourning Dove134 obs
- tree-of-heaven133 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/469203131
Day trips start here
- Queens · 1 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 3 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 4 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 4 mi
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