Mosholu Playground
Mosholu Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 32 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is The Bainbridge Avenue Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 0.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 32 m
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 3.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 15.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- The Bainbridge Avenue Garden: 0.1 mi
- Rock Garden: 0.6 mi
- Perennial and Herb Gardens: 0.6 mi
- Native Plant Garden: 0.6 mi
- Chlidren's Adventure Garden: 0.8 mi
- Whalen Park: 0.3 mi
- Moshulu Parkway: 0.4 mi
- Williamsbridge Oval: 0.5 mi
- Harris Park: 0.5 mi
- Hawthorne/Rooney Tennis Courts: 0.6 mi
- Parking: 0.4 mi
- Birds of Prey: 1.3 mi
- Madagascar!: 1.4 mi
- Monkey House: 1.4 mi
- World of Birds: 1.4 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 0.4 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 0.4 mi
- Poe Cottage: 0.8 mi
- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 2.1 mi
- Glyndor Gallery: 2.3 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 0.7 mi
- Ghost Bike: Michael Needham: 1.1 mi
- Van Cortlandt Station ruins: 1.3 mi
- Grand Central Stones: 1.4 mi
- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Gravesite: 1.6 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 1.0 mi
- Coyote: 1.3 mi
- Farragut Monument: 1.6 mi
- Welcome to Woodlawn Mural: 1.9 mi
- 242 St. station: 2.2 mi
- Marble Hill: 1.5 mi
- Vault Hill: 1.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 1.9 mi
- Tetards Hill: 2.0 mi
- Bronx High Point: 2.1 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 2.3 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.6 mi
- Canoe Beach: 3.3 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.3 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.3 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.0 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.3 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 4.9 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 5.3 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 3.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 4.0 mi
- The Palisades: 5.7 mi
- Palisades: 6.8 mi
- Palisades: 7.1 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.6 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 6.1 mi
- Street Seats: 9.1 mi
- The Backyard: 10.5 mi
- The Falls: 2.5 mi
- The Loch: 6.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 15.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 15.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 15.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 7.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 12.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 20.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.6 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Mosholu Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 293° | 268 m | 17.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 293° | 260 m | 18.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 291° | 230 m | 17.7 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 354° | 214 m | 17.3 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 13° | 211 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 349° | 208 m | 12.4 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 292° | 185 m | 19.5 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 20° | 180 m | 17.2 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 | 15:47 | 16:31 |
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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 3 mi away.
- white snakeroot3,419 obs
- lesser celandine2,989 obs
- common mugwort2,571 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,109 obs
- garlic mustard1,071 obs
- American Robin953 obs
- American pokeweed816 obs
- Porcelain Berry739 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357634994
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