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Penn Triangle

Penn Triangle from directly overhead

Penn Triangle is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Classon Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.7 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
4 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

How to reach it

Coordinates40.70081, -73.96085

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Boar: 0.3 mi
  • Boar: 0.3 mi
  • Old crane: 0.3 mi
  • I Ought To: 0.5 mi
  • Brooklyn: 0.6 mi
Gardens
  • Myrtle Village Green: 0.5 mi
  • La Casita Verde: 0.5 mi
  • Brooklyn Grange: 0.6 mi
  • Hooper Grove: 0.6 mi
  • Keap Fourth Community Garden: 0.7 mi
Museums
Beaches
Attractions
Peaks: 57
  • Sullivan Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Willink Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 2.9 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 5.2 mi
  • Palisades: 5.7 mi
  • Palisades: 7.6 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.2 mi
  • Palisades: 13.2 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.6 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 2.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.8 mi
  • The Loch: 6.5 mi
  • The Falls: 14.4 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 17.7 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 326°268 m22.4 mi
Beech MountainNW 325°260 m23.4 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 326°230 m22.1 mi
Mount NeboN 4°208 m24.1 mi
Poacher PeakNW 324°185 m23.8 mi
Moon HillNW 324°180 m23.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 298°179 m16.7 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 286°175 m17.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4916:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly1,137 obs
  • Monarch816 obs
  • Rock Pigeon732 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee694 obs
  • tree-of-heaven569 obs
  • House Sparrow549 obs
  • Western Honey Bee503 obs
  • American Robin485 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/667073866

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