Railroad Playground
Railroad Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Fidler-Wyckoff House Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 12 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 29.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fidler-Wyckoff House Park: 0.5 mi
- Osborn Playground: 0.6 mi
- Curtis Playground: 0.6 mi
- Harry Maze Playground: 0.6 mi
- Gethsemane Garden: 0.7 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 0.5 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 2.6 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 2.8 mi
- Carousel: 2.8 mi
- Emu: 2.8 mi
- Newport Gardens: 0.8 mi
- Powell Street Livonia Garden: 1.2 mi
- Fred McLeod Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Eastern Parkway Farm: 1.4 mi
- Sterling Community Group Garden: 1.5 mi
- Zion Park War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 1.9 mi
- Saratoga Park Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Ebbets Field Home Plate: 2.5 mi
- Washington Irving Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.8 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 2.0 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 2.3 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 2.3 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 2.8 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 2.0 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 4.4 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 5.2 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 5.3 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 5.5 mi
- Robert Fulton: 2.3 mi
- Dragon Fountain: 2.6 mi
- Now & Then: 2.7 mi
- Mathematical Star: 2.7 mi
- Yusuf Hawkins: 2.8 mi
- Rookery: 2.9 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 3.3 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.4 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.4 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 5.5 mi
- Willink Hill: 2.7 mi
- Breeze Hill: 2.8 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 3.1 mi
- Lookout Hill: 3.1 mi
- Quaker Hill: 3.1 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 5.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.5 mi
- Street Seats: 7.2 mi
- Palisades: 9.4 mi
- Palisades: 10.0 mi
- Palisades: 11.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Palisades: 16.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 13.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 13.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 17.8 mi
- North Tower: 17.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 2.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.1 mi
- The Loch: 10.3 mi
- The Falls: 17.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 19.4 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 19.4 mi
- Barber: 19.8 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Railroad Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 303° | 179 m | 20.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 294° | 175 m | 21.4 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 297° | 134 m | 24.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 252° | 125 m | 11.1 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 219° | 120 m | 22.8 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 54° | 106 m | 17.7 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 218° | 106 m | 22.2 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 286° | 92 m | 21.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 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 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 5 mi away.
- common mugwort94 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly82 obs
- European Starling68 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel62 obs
- Rock Pigeon59 obs
- House Sparrow52 obs
- Mourning Dove42 obs
- American pokeweed32 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/601388078
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 2 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 6 mi
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