Martin Luther King Triangle
Martin Luther King Triangle is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Fountain of Youth Playground, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 1.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 4.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 19.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fountain of Youth Playground: 0.2 mi
- Al Quiñones Playground: 0.3 mi
- Pontiac Playground: 0.4 mi
- Fox Park: 0.4 mi
- Jardin Criollo: 0.4 mi
- Isla Verde Garden: 0.3 mi
- 138th Street Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- United We Stand Garden: 0.8 mi
- Padre Plaza: 0.8 mi
- Willis Avenue Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- Janes Hill: 0.4 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.2 mi
- Great Hill: 3.1 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 3.4 mi
- Summit Rock: 4.0 mi
- Big Pun mural: 0.8 mi
- I Love the Bronx mural: 1.0 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.1 mi
- Joker Stairs: 2.0 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 2.0 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 0.9 mi
- Universal Hip Hop Museum: 1.6 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 1.6 mi
- The Yankees Museum: 1.7 mi
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem: 2.1 mi
- Coral: 1.0 mi
- Dream Machine Ⅱ: 1.3 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 1.4 mi
- Crack Is Wack: 1.6 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 1.7 mi
- Matthew Travis Palacios: 1.6 mi
- The Bat: 1.7 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.0 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.1 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 2.1 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.6 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.9 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 6.4 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 7.2 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.3 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.2 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.3 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.7 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.3 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.1 mi
- Street Seats: 4.8 mi
- The Backyard: 8.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 9.3 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 9.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 2.4 mi
- Palisades: 4.6 mi
- Palisades: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 6.8 mi
- Palisades: 8.7 mi
- The Loch: 3.2 mi
- The Falls: 6.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 9.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 9.8 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 21.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 20.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Martin Luther King Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 306° | 268 m | 19.0 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 305° | 260 m | 20.1 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 305° | 230 m | 18.8 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 13° | 211 m | 21.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 356° | 208 m | 16.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 305° | 185 m | 20.6 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 304° | 180 m | 20.3 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 270° | 179 m | 17.8 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 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
- common mugwort694 obs
- common milkweed509 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly447 obs
- white snakeroot427 obs
- groundsel tree333 obs
- tree-of-heaven328 obs
- red deadnettle270 obs
- Porcelain Berry259 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/923781366
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Fort Lee · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 4 mi
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