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Matthews-Muliner Playground

Matthews-Muliner Playground from directly overhead

Matthews-Muliner Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Van Nest Memorial Square, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 0.5 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
15 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.84697, -73.86160

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
Historic sites
Gardens
  • River Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Ornamental Conifers: 1.0 mi
  • Rockefeller Rose Garden: 1.0 mi
  • Drew Gardens: 1.1 mi
  • Hornaday Community Garden: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Peaks
Beaches
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 20
Waterfalls: 12
  • The Falls: 3.1 mi
  • The Loch: 6.3 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 14.0 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 23.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Matthews-Muliner Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainWNW 296°268 m19.5 mi
Mount CecchinoWNW 295°230 m19.4 mi
Hook MountainN 351°214 m19.1 mi
Buttermilk HillN 8°211 m18.4 mi
Mount NeboNNW 346°208 m14.4 mi
Reynolds HillNNE 15°180 m18.5 mi
Stony HillW 263°179 m20.1 mi
Round HillNNE 29°172 m20.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343642536373787770584839
Precip in3.73.24.43.94.14.64.44.84.64.13.44.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, under a mile away.

  • lesser celandine2,626 obs
  • common mugwort2,219 obs
  • white snakeroot1,901 obs
  • American Robin615 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel553 obs
  • American pokeweed532 obs
  • northern spicebush498 obs
  • garlic mustard488 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/1408410016

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