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Juniper Valley Park

Juniper Valley Park from directly overhead

Juniper Valley Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 30 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Pullis Farm Cemetery Historical Landmark, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 7.2 miles off. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.72028, -73.87954

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Gardens
  • The Compost Collective: 1.2 mi
  • Project Eden: 1.2 mi
  • Thomas X. Winberry Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Ian MacLennan Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Ridgewood Garden: 1.4 mi
Peaks: 60
  • Maspeth Plateau: 1.2 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Willink Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 6.2 mi
Attractions
Museums
Nature reserves
Beaches
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 16
  • Palisades: 8.2 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.4 mi
  • Palisades: 8.5 mi
  • Palisades: 8.7 mi
  • Palisades: 12.3 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Waterfalls: 9
  • Binnen Falls: 6.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 6.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 6.3 mi
  • The Loch: 6.6 mi
  • The Falls: 11.8 mi
Rest areas: 4
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 21.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Juniper Valley Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 316°268 m24.0 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 316°230 m23.8 mi
Mount NeboN 354°208 m22.8 mi
Stony HillWNW 289°179 m20.1 mi
Mayapple HillW 280°175 m21.7 mi
Kennelwood HillNNE 15°156 m24.8 mi
Packanack MountainNW 308°144 m23.9 mi
Beaver HillN 6°140 m24.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
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, 4 mi away.

  • House Sparrow196 obs
  • Rock Pigeon190 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly163 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel144 obs
  • Mourning Dove130 obs
  • prickly lettuce130 obs
  • European Starling112 obs
  • common mugwort105 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.

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OpenStreetMap element way/295640569

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