Mabel Hampton Playground
Mabel Hampton Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 30 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Bean Morris Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 30 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 1.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 2.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 17.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bean Morris Garden: 0.0 mi
- A Farm In The Bronx: 0.5 mi
- Cooke Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Green Patch on Walton: 0.5 mi
- Tremont Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Walton Park: 0.1 mi
- Bergen Triangle: 0.1 mi
- Devanney Triangle: 0.1 mi
- Mount Hope Garden: 0.2 mi
- Grand Playground: 0.2 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 0.9 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 1.4 mi
- Columnade: 1.5 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 1.7 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 2.1 mi
- Poe Cottage: 0.9 mi
- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 1.3 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 1.6 mi
- The Met Cloisters: 1.6 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 1.8 mi
- Congo Gorilla Forest: 1.2 mi
- Birds of Prey: 1.3 mi
- Flamingos: 1.3 mi
- Amazing Amphibians: 1.3 mi
- Madagascar!: 1.3 mi
- Marble Hill: 1.5 mi
- Long Hill: 1.6 mi
- Inwood Hill: 1.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 1.9 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 6.6 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 7.0 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 7.1 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 1.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 1.9 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.8 mi
- Hazard Beach: 2.9 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 2.4 mi
- Palisades: 3.2 mi
- Palisades: 5.5 mi
- The Palisades: 6.7 mi
- Palisades: 7.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.0 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 6.5 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Street Seats: 7.6 mi
- The Backyard: 9.1 mi
- The Falls: 4.1 mi
- The Loch: 5.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 13.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 13.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 13.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 9.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.1 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.9 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 21.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.4 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.2 miles of Mabel Hampton Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 298° | 268 m | 17.3 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 298° | 260 m | 18.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 297° | 230 m | 17.2 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 358° | 214 m | 18.4 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 15° | 211 m | 18.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 355° | 208 m | 13.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 297° | 185 m | 19.0 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 297° | 180 m | 18.7 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 | 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, 3 mi away.
- common mugwort3,157 obs
- lesser celandine2,698 obs
- white snakeroot2,196 obs
- northern spicebush1,195 obs
- Porcelain Berry1,191 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,084 obs
- American Robin914 obs
- American pokeweed889 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 siteOpenStreetMap element way/1103042044
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 2 mi
- Fort Lee · 3 mi
- Englewood · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 6 mi
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