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One Hundred Percent Playground

One Hundred Percent Playground from directly overhead

One Hundred Percent Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilson Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 12 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
3 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.64637, -73.89921
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Newport Gardens: 1.0 mi
  • Powell Street Livonia Garden: 1.2 mi
  • First Temple of David: 1.5 mi
  • Causa Festival Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Big Red Garden: 1.6 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Museums
Artworks
Peaks: 45
Picnic sites: 38
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 10.1 mi
  • Palisades: 10.7 mi
  • Palisades: 12.2 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 13.0 mi
  • Palisades: 17.1 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 8
  • Binnen Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.9 mi
  • The Loch: 10.7 mi
  • The Falls: 17.0 mi
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 21.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of One Hundred Percent Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony HillWNW 303°179 m21.4 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 293°175 m22.2 mi
Todt HillWSW 254°125 m11.7 mi
Crawford HillSW 221°120 m23.1 mi
Harbor HillNE 52°106 m17.2 mi
Telegraph HillSW 220°106 m22.6 mi
Nook HillWNW 286°92 m22.3 mi
Bronx High PointN 359°85 m17.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:4920:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • common mugwort137 obs
  • Brant80 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly69 obs
  • European Starling67 obs
  • common reed67 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird63 obs
  • Rock Pigeon55 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel46 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1064451701

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