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Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground

Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground from directly overhead

Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 15 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground Children’s Play Area, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.8 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.68798, -73.92560

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Peaks: 53
  • Willink Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.1 mi
Picnic sites: 43
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 7.3 mi
  • Palisades: 7.5 mi
  • Palisades: 9.0 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.0 mi
  • Palisades: 14.1 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • Binnen Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.0 mi
  • The Loch: 7.6 mi
  • The Falls: 14.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 324°268 m24.2 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 323°230 m23.9 mi
Mount NeboN 360°208 m24.9 mi
Stony HillWNW 297°179 m18.7 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 287°175 m19.9 mi
Packanack MountainNW 315°144 m23.6 mi
Riker HillWNW 292°134 m22.6 mi
Todt HillWSW 239°125 m11.6 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 solstice07:1715:4816:32

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, 7 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly343 obs
  • tree-of-heaven323 obs
  • Rock Pigeon266 obs
  • common mugwort229 obs
  • princess tree216 obs
  • House Sparrow173 obs
  • European Starling172 obs
  • Mourning Dove152 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/315410327

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