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Powell's Cove Park

Powell's Cove Park from directly overhead

Powell's Cove Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Frank Golden Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 3.1 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.78947, -73.83433
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
Nature reserves
  • Pugsley Creek Park: 1.9 mi
  • Virginia Point: 4.8 mi
  • Harbor Hill Preserve: 7.0 mi
  • Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 7.1 mi
  • Half Moon Wetland Conservancy: 7.3 mi
Attractions
  • Deciduous Conifer Forest: 2.6 mi
  • Herb Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Oak Allée: 2.7 mi
  • Pinetum: 2.7 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 2.7 mi
Peaks
  • Janes Hill: 4.3 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 5.2 mi
  • Mount Morris: 5.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 6.2 mi
  • Queens High Point: 6.4 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 4.4 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 5.5 mi
  • Glen Island: 7.0 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 7.1 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.1 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 19
  • Coogan's Bluff: 6.2 mi
  • Palisades: 8.3 mi
  • Palisades: 9.0 mi
  • Palisades: 9.9 mi
  • Palisades: 11.4 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Loch: 6.6 mi
  • The Falls: 6.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.4 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 24.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Powell's Cove Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillN 3°211 m22.2 mi
Mount NeboNNW 345°208 m18.6 mi
Reynolds HillN 9°180 m22.1 mi
Stony HillW 274°179 m21.5 mi
Cooney HillNNE 14°170 m22.2 mi
Kennelwood HillNNE 12°156 m19.6 mi
Kykuit HillN 359°147 m20.7 mi
Beaver HillN 1°140 m19.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
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, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • common mugwort1,524 obs
  • groundsel tree149 obs
  • marsh elder105 obs
  • common reed92 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly74 obs
  • Saltmarsh Cordgrass63 obs
  • ribwort plantain54 obs
  • Monarch50 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/113727159

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