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Plaut Triangle

Plaut Triangle from directly overhead

Plaut Triangle is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 18 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Ye Olde Burial Ground of Flushing, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 6.0 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.75840, -73.79732

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Historic sites
Gardens
Attractions
  • Circle Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 1.6 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Pinetum: 1.6 mi
  • Unity Garden: 1.6 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 6.4 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.4 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 6.5 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 7.3 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 4.1 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 5.6 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 6.9 mi
  • Janes Hill: 7.0 mi
  • Mount Morris: 8.3 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 19
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.0 mi
  • Palisades: 10.7 mi
  • Palisades: 11.7 mi
  • Palisades: 11.9 mi
  • Palisades: 12.9 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Waterfalls: 7
  • The Loch: 8.9 mi
  • The Falls: 9.3 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 11.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 11.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.3 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Plaut Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 341°208 m21.2 mi
Stony HillW 279°179 m23.6 mi
Kennelwood HillN 5°156 m21.4 mi
Kykuit HillN 354°147 m23.0 mi
Beaver HillN 356°140 m21.4 mi
Hackley HillN 353°140 m21.8 mi
Tappan HillN 352°127 m21.9 mi
Todt HillWSW 237°125 m19.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 5 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel240 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly229 obs
  • American Robin202 obs
  • common mugwort186 obs
  • Wood Duck167 obs
  • Rock Pigeon161 obs
  • Pond Slider145 obs
  • Mallard137 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/468341479

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