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Manhasset Valley Park

Manhasset Valley Park from directly overhead

Manhasset Valley Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Neck Park DIstrict Dog Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.9 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
5 m

What to expect

Operated by
Town of North Hempstead

How to reach it

Coordinates40.79027, -73.70697

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Great Neck Park DIstrict Dog Park: 0.2 mi
  • Whitney Pond Park: 0.3 mi
  • Kensington Pool: 0.4 mi
  • Manhasset Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
  • Mary Jane Davies Green: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Beaches
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 2.0 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 2.2 mi
  • Parsons Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 3.1 mi
Artworks
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 2.3 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Mill Neck Peak: 10.3 mi
  • Janes Hill: 10.8 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 10.8 mi
Attractions
  • Circle Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 6.8 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Pinetum: 6.8 mi
  • Unity Garden: 6.8 mi
Picnic sites: 35
  • West Lindens: 7.9 mi
  • Lindens B: 7.9 mi
  • North Maples: 7.9 mi
  • Lindens A: 7.9 mi
  • Cedars: 7.9 mi
Cliffs: 13
Lighthouses: 7
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Falls: 9.7 mi
  • The Loch: 13.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 16.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 16.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 16.5 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.0 miles of Manhasset Valley Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillNNW 346°211 m22.8 mi
Mount NeboNNW 327°208 m21.2 mi
Reynolds HillN 352°180 m22.0 mi
Round HillN 5°172 m21.7 mi
Cooney HillN 356°170 m21.5 mi
Kennelwood HillN 352°156 m19.3 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 341°147 m21.9 mi
Beaver HillNNW 342°140 m20.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 6 mi away.

  • American Robin51 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel48 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly43 obs
  • Mourning Dove37 obs
  • Blue Jay27 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail24 obs
  • lesser celandine24 obs
  • Northern Cardinal23 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/515924447

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