Rachel Carson Playground
Rachel Carson Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Evergreen Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.8 miles off.
How to reach it
- 5.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 10.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 21.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Evergreen Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- Wedding Garden: 0.3 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.3 mi
- Queens Botanical Garden: 0.4 mi
- Garden of Meditation: 1.0 mi
- Kissena Meditation Garden: 0.1 mi
- Kissena Corridor Park: 0.2 mi
- Maple Playground: 0.5 mi
- Turtle Playground: 0.5 mi
- Lawrence Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Wetland & Woodland Garden: 0.2 mi
- Circle Garden: 0.2 mi
- Unity Garden: 0.2 mi
- Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 0.2 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.2 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Seal: 0.8 mi
- Cube: 0.9 mi
- More Balls for Klapper Hall: 1.0 mi
- Wood Pile: 1.0 mi
- Kissena Park World War I Monument: 0.9 mi
- Fox Oaks: 1.0 mi
- Weeping Beech Historical Marker: 1.0 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Unisphere: 1.2 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 0.9 mi
- John Bowne House: 1.0 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 1.0 mi
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 1.1 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 1.2 mi
- Parsons Beach: 3.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 6.1 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 7.8 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.9 mi
- PWEA Beach: 7.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.4 mi
- Queens High Point: 5.4 mi
- Janes Hill: 6.4 mi
- Mount Morris: 7.4 mi
- Virginia Point: 4.6 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 6.2 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.9 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.4 mi
- Street Seats: 6.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Area D: 8.3 mi
- Picnic Area C: 8.4 mi
- Picnic Area F: 8.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 8.4 mi
- Palisades: 9.7 mi
- Palisades: 10.5 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- The Loch: 7.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 9.7 mi
- The Falls: 9.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 9.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 9.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 9.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 9.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.0 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.7 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 22.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 12.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.4 miles of Rachel Carson Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Nebo | NNW 345° | 208 m | 21.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 281° | 179 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 274° | 175 m | 24.4 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | N 9° | 156 m | 22.2 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 357° | 147 m | 23.5 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 359° | 140 m | 22.0 mi |
| Hackley Hill | N 357° | 140 m | 22.4 mi |
| Tappan Hill | N 356° | 127 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 4 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel418 obs
- Mallard321 obs
- American Robin318 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly308 obs
- Rock Pigeon288 obs
- common mugwort277 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird242 obs
- Canada Goose206 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/380845005
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 1 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 3 mi
- Queens · 6 mi
- Bronx · 7 mi
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