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Michaelis-Bayswater Park

Michaelis-Bayswater Park from directly overhead

Michaelis-Bayswater Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of -0 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Norton Basin Natural Resource Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 16 miles off. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.59868, -73.76909

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
Beaches
Historic sites
  • Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 2.5 mi
  • LCFD Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 3.3 mi
  • Flight 587 Memorial: 3.8 mi
  • HBFD Memorial: 4.3 mi
Artworks
Attractions
Gardens
Peaks: 44
  • Willink Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Queens High Point: 11.3 mi
  • Lookout Hill: 11.4 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 11.4 mi
Picnic sites: 28
  • Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 3.1 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 3.5 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 3.5 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 3.6 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 3.6 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Cliffs: 6
  • Palisades: 17.5 mi
  • Palisades: 17.7 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 18.5 mi
  • Palisades: 18.6 mi
  • Palisades: 22.2 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Binnen Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 11.4 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.5 mi
  • The Loch: 16.8 mi
  • The Falls: 20.4 mi
Rest areas: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Todt HillW 270°125 m18.1 mi
Jayne's HillNE 50°122 m23.4 mi
Harbor HillNNE 26°106 m15.4 mi
West HillsNE 49°106 m23.2 mi
Mannetto HillsNE 50°85 m21.4 mi
Bronx High PointNNW 341°85 m21.9 mi
Manhattan High PointNNW 333°81 m19.7 mi
Queens High PointNNE 13°79.2 m11.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333541516170767568574738
Precip in3.22.83.93.63.73.93.94.13.63.73.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 3 mi away.

  • common reed217 obs
  • American Oystercatcher161 obs
  • common mugwort137 obs
  • Laughing Gull137 obs
  • groundsel tree132 obs
  • northern seaside goldenrod95 obs
  • shining sumac52 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull51 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/616763961

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