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Patrol Officer William T Gunn Junior Park

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Patrol Officer William T Gunn Junior Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 30 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Breininger Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.7 miles off. 55 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
30 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.73196, -73.73189
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Greenstreets: 0.5 mi
  • Pollinator Place: 0.8 mi
  • Hollis Hills Greenstreets: 1.2 mi
  • Windsor Oaks: 1.2 mi
  • Winsor Oaks: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Reclaimed Habitat: 1.1 mi
  • Turtle Statue: 1.7 mi
  • Jam Master Jay: 2.0 mi
  • Dog: 2.6 mi
  • St. Paul of the Cross: 3.1 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 3.0 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 6.1 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.2 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 6.3 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 7.3 mi
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 4.4 mi
  • Circle Garden: 5.1 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 5.1 mi
  • Unity Garden: 5.1 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 5.1 mi
Peaks: 55
  • Queens High Point: 1.9 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 6.7 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 8.7 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 10.0 mi
  • Janes Hill: 10.9 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Accessible Picnic Area: 5.9 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 5.9 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 5.9 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 6.1 mi
Cliffs: 12
  • Coogan's Bluff: 12.9 mi
  • Palisades: 14.6 mi
  • Palisades: 15.4 mi
  • Palisades: 15.6 mi
  • Palisades: 16.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 5
  • The Falls: 12.2 mi
  • The Loch: 12.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.5 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Patrol Officer William T Gunn Junior Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 335°208 m24.2 mi
Kennelwood HillN 357°156 m23.2 mi
Beaver HillNNW 348°140 m23.7 mi
Hackley HillNNW 346°140 m24.3 mi
Tappan HillNNW 345°127 m24.4 mi
Todt HillWSW 246°125 m22.0 mi
Jayne's HillENE 70°122 m17.0 mi
Harbor HillNE 46°106 m6.7 mi
Conditions

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 solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel428 obs
  • eastern poison ivy412 obs
  • American Robin372 obs
  • American tuliptree362 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander334 obs
  • American sweetgum309 obs
  • garlic mustard294 obs
  • Spring Peeper285 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/404419157

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