Rainbow Park
Rainbow Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. Kennelwood Hill stands 156 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Custer Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 15 miles off. 43 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 14.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 21.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Custer Park: 0.3 mi
- Triangle Park: 0.4 mi
- Stewart Field: 0.5 mi
- Brierley Park: 0.6 mi
- Grove Park: 0.6 mi
- Site of Camp Mills Base Hospital: 0.7 mi
- World War I Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Veterans Plaza: 1.4 mi
- East Williston Veterans' Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Eisenhower Park Firefighters Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Flying Through the Years at Roosevelt Field: 0.8 mi
- Garden City Historical Society: 1.0 mi
- Long Island Children Museum: 1.1 mi
- Nassau County Firefighters Museum: 1.2 mi
- Cradle of Aviation Museum: 1.2 mi
- Alexander Turney Stewart: 1.0 mi
- Lost and Found: An Excavation Project: 1.1 mi
- Benjamin Franklin: 1.1 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt: 1.2 mi
- Dialogue between Plato and Socrates: 1.3 mi
- Sensory Garden: 1.4 mi
- Hofstra University Suburban Ecological Research Site: 1.5 mi
- Rose Garden: 2.2 mi
- Formal Rose Garden: 3.3 mi
- Clark Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Hempstead Plains Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Francis Purcell Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Garden City Bird Sanctuary,: 2.8 mi
- Old Westbury Unique Area: 3.8 mi
- East Meadow Bird Sanctuary: 3.9 mi
- Jamaica: 6.6 mi
- Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 6.6 mi
- Nautical Mile: 6.7 mi
- US Army Corps of Engineers Survey Point: 9.6 mi
- JFK: 10.1 mi
- Parsons Beach: 7.6 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 7.7 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.8 mi
- Harry Tappen Beach: 7.8 mi
- PWEA Beach: 7.9 mi
- Harbor Hill: 5.1 mi
- Queens High Point: 5.6 mi
- Mannetto Hills: 9.9 mi
- Mill Neck Peak: 11.1 mi
- West Hills: 11.6 mi
- North Maples: 2.2 mi
- West Lindens: 2.2 mi
- Lindens B: 2.2 mi
- South Maples: 2.2 mi
- Cedars: 2.2 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 13.3 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 15.2 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 16.6 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 16.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 18.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.1 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 13.7 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 19.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 20.2 mi
- The Falls: 16.0 mi
- The Loch: 18.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 18.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 18.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 18.9 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 16.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 22.4 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rainbow Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennelwood Hill | NNW 343° | 156 m | 24.6 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 59° | 122 m | 11.9 mi |
| Harbor Hill | N 349° | 106 m | 5.1 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 58° | 106 m | 11.6 mi |
| Dix Hills | ENE 66° | 92 m | 15.3 mi |
| Signal Hill | ENE 65° | 90 m | 14.5 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | ENE 60° | 85 m | 9.9 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NW 309° | 85 m | 19.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:47 | 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 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 71 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, under a mile away.
- Eastern Cottontail61 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel49 obs
- American Robin46 obs
- Mourning Dove45 obs
- black cherry44 obs
- common mugwort40 obs
- Italian Wall Lizard38 obs
- House Sparrow35 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/404400048
Day trips start here
- Garden City · 2 mi
- Hempstead · 2 mi
- Mineola · 2 mi
- Nassau County · 2 mi
- Rockville Centre · 4 mi
- Roslyn · 5 mi
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