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Martinez Playground

Martinez Playground from directly overhead

Martinez Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Scholes Street Children’s Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.8 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
11 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.70903, -73.94435
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
  • MV Schamonchi: 0.7 mi
  • Zohramp: 2.3 mi
  • Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 2.5 mi
  • Couv Led Zepp 5e album: 2.5 mi
  • Anarchy 99: 2.5 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 3.0 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.1 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.2 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.4 mi
Peaks: 58
  • Laurel Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.9 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.6 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 5.7 mi
  • Palisades: 5.8 mi
  • Palisades: 7.3 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.6 mi
  • Palisades: 12.6 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.6 mi
  • The Loch: 6.0 mi
  • The Falls: 13.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 324°268 m22.4 mi
Beech MountainNW 323°260 m23.5 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 323°230 m22.2 mi
Mount NeboN 2°208 m23.5 mi
Poacher PeakNW 322°185 m23.8 mi
Moon HillNW 322°180 m23.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 295°179 m17.2 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 284°175 m18.5 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, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly887 obs
  • tree-of-heaven819 obs
  • Monarch678 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee600 obs
  • common mugwort541 obs
  • Rock Pigeon476 obs
  • Mourning Dove407 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee392 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/745537380

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