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Lafayette Playground

Lafayette Playground from directly overhead

Lafayette Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is The Garden of Angels, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.6 miles off. 55 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
17 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates40.69259, -73.92996
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 3.3 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 3.6 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.7 mi
  • Canarsie Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.3 mi
Peaks: 55
  • Laurel Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Willink Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.1 mi
Picnic sites: 43
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.9 mi
  • Palisades: 7.2 mi
  • Palisades: 8.7 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.7 mi
  • Palisades: 13.8 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.0 mi
  • The Loch: 7.2 mi
  • The Falls: 14.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 324°268 m23.8 mi
Beech MountainNW 323°260 m24.8 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 323°230 m23.5 mi
Mount NeboN 0°208 m24.6 mi
Moon HillNW 322°180 m24.9 mi
Stony HillWNW 297°179 m18.4 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 287°175 m19.6 mi
Packanack MountainNW 315°144 m23.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly529 obs
  • tree-of-heaven414 obs
  • Rock Pigeon322 obs
  • common mugwort310 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee293 obs
  • princess tree280 obs
  • Mourning Dove235 obs
  • House Sparrow218 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1444680293

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