Loreto Playground
Loreto Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 23 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Matthews-Muliner Playground, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 23 m
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 5.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 15.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Matthews-Muliner Playground: 0.5 mi
- Pelham Parkway: 0.6 mi
- Rudy Macina Peace Memorial Plaza: 0.6 mi
- Castle Hill Playground: 0.7 mi
- Westchester Square: 0.8 mi
- 9/11: 0.6 mi
- Westchester Square: 0.7 mi
- Ghost Bike: Michael Needham: 1.3 mi
- Pelham Bay Park World War Memorial: 1.6 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 1.6 mi
- World of Birds: 1.3 mi
- Jungle World: 1.3 mi
- Dholes: 1.3 mi
- Bears: 1.3 mi
- World of Darkness: 1.3 mi
- Rockefeller Rose Garden: 1.3 mi
- Ornamental Conifers: 1.4 mi
- River Garden: 1.4 mi
- Edible Academy: 1.4 mi
- Azalea Garden: 1.6 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 1.3 mi
- Shamrock: 2.7 mi
- Farragut Monument: 3.1 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 3.1 mi
- Welcome to Woodlawn Mural: 3.4 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 1.9 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 2.4 mi
- Poe Cottage: 2.5 mi
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 2.9 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 3.8 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 4.5 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 5.3 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 5.5 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 5.7 mi
- Marble Hill: 3.6 mi
- Vault Hill: 4.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 4.0 mi
- Janes Hill: 4.0 mi
- Tetards Hill: 4.2 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.3 mi
- Glen Island: 4.3 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.4 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.3 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 5.4 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.6 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.6 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.1 mi
- Street Seats: 8.5 mi
- The Backyard: 11.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 4.7 mi
- Palisades: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 7.7 mi
- The Palisades: 7.8 mi
- Palisades: 8.8 mi
- The Falls: 2.8 mi
- The Loch: 6.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 14.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 14.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 14.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 6.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 6.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 12.6 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 18.3 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 19.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 9.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.1 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.6 miles of Loreto Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 295° | 268 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 294° | 230 m | 19.8 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 350° | 214 m | 19.1 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 7° | 211 m | 18.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 344° | 208 m | 14.3 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 14° | 180 m | 18.2 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 263° | 179 m | 20.6 mi |
| Round Hill | NNE 28° | 172 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:47 | 16:31 |
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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, under a mile away.
- lesser celandine2,607 obs
- common mugwort1,829 obs
- white snakeroot1,636 obs
- American Robin570 obs
- northern spicebush490 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel473 obs
- American pokeweed472 obs
- garlic mustard466 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/1168580922
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 2 mi
- Mount Vernon · 5 mi
- Pelham · 5 mi
- Bronxville · 6 mi
- Fort Lee · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 6 mi
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