Poe Park
Poe Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 42 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Poe Cottage, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 1.2 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 42 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 3.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 16.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Poe Cottage: 0.0 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 0.8 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 1.2 mi
- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 1.5 mi
- The Met Cloisters: 2.0 mi
- Fordham Bedford Lot-Busters Garden: 0.1 mi
- St. James Park: 0.2 mi
- George Farkas Square: 0.2 mi
- Muller Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Rose Hill Park: 0.3 mi
- The Bainbridge Avenue Garden: 0.7 mi
- Perennial and Herb Gardens: 0.7 mi
- Belmont Little Farmers: 0.8 mi
- A Farm In The Bronx: 0.8 mi
- Chlidren's Adventure Garden: 0.8 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 0.9 mi
- Broadway: 1.1 mi
- Broadway: 1.1 mi
- Broadway: 1.2 mi
- Broadway: 1.2 mi
- Parking: 1.1 mi
- Birds of Prey: 1.1 mi
- Madagascar!: 1.2 mi
- Monkey House: 1.2 mi
- Amazing Amphibians: 1.2 mi
- Marble Hill: 1.2 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 1.6 mi
- Tetards Hill: 1.7 mi
- Inwood Hill: 1.8 mi
- Long Hill: 1.9 mi
- Coyote: 1.5 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 1.5 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 1.6 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 1.9 mi
- Columnade: 2.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 1.9 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.0 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.8 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 2.9 mi
- Canoe Beach: 3.1 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 2.3 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.1 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 5.7 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 6.1 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 6.7 mi
- Palisades: 3.1 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.2 mi
- The Palisades: 6.0 mi
- Palisades: 6.3 mi
- Palisades: 7.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.8 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 5.9 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
- Street Seats: 8.4 mi
- The Backyard: 9.8 mi
- The Falls: 3.3 mi
- The Loch: 5.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 14.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 14.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 14.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.9 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.3 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 21.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 22.1 mi
- Cuties Island: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Poe Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 295° | 268 m | 17.5 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 295° | 260 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 294° | 230 m | 17.4 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 356° | 214 m | 17.7 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 14° | 211 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 352° | 208 m | 12.8 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 295° | 185 m | 19.1 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 21° | 180 m | 17.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 3 mi away.
- lesser celandine3,042 obs
- common mugwort2,768 obs
- white snakeroot2,666 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,386 obs
- northern spicebush1,224 obs
- garlic mustard1,174 obs
- American pokeweed1,062 obs
- American Robin1,043 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 siteOpenStreetMap element way/305086297
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 2 mi
- Fort Lee · 4 mi
- Englewood · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 5 mi
- Mount Vernon · 5 mi
- Bronxville · 6 mi
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