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Pleasant Plains Plaza

Pleasant Plains Plaza from directly overhead

Pleasant Plains Plaza is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Mine Mountain stands 251 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
11 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.52394, -74.21607
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Bloomingdale Park: 0.7 mi
  • Fairview Park: 0.9 mi
  • Harris Brothers Park: 1.0 mi
  • Woodhull Park: 1.1 mi
  • McBaine Estate Park: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Beaches
Attractions
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 2.3 mi
  • The South Pole: 2.5 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 5.8 mi
  • Buck’s Hollow: 5.8 mi
  • Carousel for All Children: 6.3 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 4.9 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 5.3 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 7.9 mi
  • Compost and Community Garden: 8.9 mi
Peaks: 54
Picnic sites: 27
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 6.4 mi
  • Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
  • Holy Trinity Picnic Site: 10.1 mi
  • Grove 4: 11.0 mi
  • Grove 3B: 11.2 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 15.6 mi
  • Palisades: 17.7 mi
  • Palisades: 19.8 mi
  • Palisades: 23.0 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 23.3 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Seele: 13.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 16.0 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 16.1 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 16.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 16.2 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 16.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mine MountainNW 304°251 m24.6 mi
Sugar LoafNW 317°229 m24.1 mi
Gillespie HillNW 320°217 m23.7 mi
Mount KembleNW 316°215 m23.2 mi
Blachleys HillNW 313°204 m23.6 mi
Kinneys HillNW 323°180 m23.5 mi
Stony HillN 356°179 m20.0 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 348°175 m17.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:32
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1815:5016:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323543546372777568564638
Precip in3.83.14.33.64.04.35.34.04.34.33.54.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plainfield, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Asian bittersweet659 obs
  • white snakeroot363 obs
  • Fowler's Toad144 obs
  • common mugwort130 obs
  • Canada Goose121 obs
  • American sweetgum117 obs
  • eastern poison ivy106 obs
  • White-tailed Deer101 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1125696384

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