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Rainbow Playground

Rainbow Playground from directly overhead

Rainbow Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 40 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Quaker Parrot Park at the Dust Bowl, a park 0.6 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 15 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
40 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

How to reach it

Coordinates40.64049, -74.01109

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Historic sites
  • Pope John Paul II: 1.0 mi
  • Irving T. Bush: 1.0 mi
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine: 1.1 mi
  • SS Arctic Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • 9/11: 1.4 mi
Attractions
  • Winter Flea + Smorgasburg: 1.1 mi
  • The Gingerbread House: 1.7 mi
  • Street Car: 2.3 mi
  • Hammerhead Peninsula: 2.3 mi
  • Drummer's Grove: 2.8 mi
Gardens
Museums
Beaches
Nature reserves
Peaks: 53
Picnic sites: 47
Cliffs: 14
Waterfalls: 10
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 2.8 mi
  • The Loch: 11.0 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 16.4 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 16.7 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 337°268 m24.8 mi
Mount CecchinoNNW 336°230 m24.5 mi
Stony HillNW 314°179 m17.0 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 302°175 m17.2 mi
Packanack MountainNNW 329°144 m23.4 mi
Riker HillNW 306°134 m20.3 mi
Long HillW 280°126 m22.7 mi
Todt HillWSW 243°125 m6.1 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 solstice07:1715:4916:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 4 mi away.

  • Red-tailed Hawk1,078 obs
  • American Kestrel1,024 obs
  • Monarch774 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird522 obs
  • Rock Pigeon461 obs
  • Cooper's Hawk458 obs
  • American Robin451 obs
  • Monk Parakeet431 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/1089185611

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