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Mount Hope Playground

Mount Hope Playground from directly overhead

Mount Hope Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 19 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Green Patch on Walton, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 2.0 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
19 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.85037, -73.90949

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Green Patch on Walton: 0.2 mi
  • Bean Morris Garden: 0.4 mi
  • Cooke Community Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Tremont Community Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Riley-Levin Children's Garden: 0.8 mi
Parks
  • Echo Triangle: 0.2 mi
  • Aqueduct Walk (Morten to West Burnside): 0.2 mi
  • Mount Hope Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Aqueduct Walk (Tremont to Morton): 0.3 mi
  • Devanney Triangle: 0.3 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions
Peaks
Nature reserves
Beaches
Cliffs
Picnic sites: 42
Waterfalls: 12
  • The Falls: 4.5 mi
  • The Loch: 4.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.4 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.4 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 21.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Mount Hope Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainWNW 299°268 m17.2 mi
Beech MountainWNW 299°260 m18.3 mi
Mount CecchinoWNW 298°230 m17.1 mi
Hook MountainN 359°214 m18.7 mi
Buttermilk HillNNE 16°211 m18.7 mi
Mount NeboN 356°208 m13.8 mi
Poacher PeakWNW 298°185 m18.9 mi
Moon HillWNW 298°180 m18.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

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, 3 mi away.

  • common mugwort1,252 obs
  • Porcelain Berry1,017 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel969 obs
  • white snakeroot796 obs
  • lesser celandine792 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly780 obs
  • American Robin776 obs
  • northern spicebush752 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/923386409

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