Northern Playground
Northern Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 22 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is 97th Street Block Association Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 22 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 4.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 8.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- 97th Street Block Association Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- McIntosh Neighborhood Association Garden: 0.6 mi
- Malcolm X Day Care Center: 0.9 mi
- Farm on hill by BQE: 1.2 mi
- Corona Taxpayers Association: 1.3 mi
- Junction Playground: 0.2 mi
- Veterans Plaza: 0.2 mi
- Playground Ninety: 0.2 mi
- Trolley Car Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Barclay Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Gorman Playground Plaque: 0.6 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Home Plate 1964-2008: 1.4 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Third Base 1964-2008: 1.4 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Pitcher's Plate 1964-2008: 1.4 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 0.7 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 1.3 mi
- Queens Museum: 1.6 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 2.5 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 2.6 mi
- 3 Squirrels: 0.8 mi
- Queens Mural: 1.0 mi
- The Healer’s Touch: 1.0 mi
- Little Thailand: 1.1 mi
- Mahbuhay: 1.3 mi
- Rocket Park: 1.3 mi
- Owl: 1.5 mi
- Canadian Lynx: 1.5 mi
- Aviary: 1.5 mi
- Bald Eagle: 1.5 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.1 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.1 mi
- Janes Hill: 4.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 4.9 mi
- Vista Rock: 5.2 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.3 mi
- Parsons Beach: 6.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 7.0 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 7.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.1 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.9 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.3 mi
- Virginia Point: 7.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 7.3 mi
- Street Seats: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Palisades: 7.1 mi
- Palisades: 7.7 mi
- Palisades: 8.9 mi
- Palisades: 10.0 mi
- The Loch: 5.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.3 mi
- The Falls: 9.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.4 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 21.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 9.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.9 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Northern Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 311° | 268 m | 22.5 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 311° | 260 m | 23.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 311° | 230 m | 22.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 352° | 208 m | 20.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 281° | 179 m | 19.7 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 273° | 175 m | 21.7 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 16° | 156 m | 22.3 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 4° | 147 m | 23.1 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 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven579 obs
- Rock Pigeon217 obs
- House Sparrow157 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel156 obs
- American Robin113 obs
- European Starling113 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly104 obs
- Mourning Dove101 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/309161246
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 1 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 2 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 4 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
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