Raoul Wallenberg Forest
Raoul Wallenberg Forest is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 42 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Seton Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 42 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 2.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 16.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Seton Park: 0.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Playground: 0.1 mi
- Riverdale Playground: 0.2 mi
- Riverdale Park: 0.2 mi
- Phyllis Post Goodman Park: 0.4 mi
- Ruins of Seton Hospital: 0.1 mi
- Henry Hudson Monument: 0.3 mi
- Riverdale Monument: 0.5 mi
- Wave Hill: 0.9 mi
- Shorakkopoch Rock: 1.0 mi
- PS24 Garden: 0.2 mi
- Pure Love Organic Farms: 0.4 mi
- Bruce Reynolds Garden: 1.1 mi
- Saint-Guilhem Cloister: 1.6 mi
- Cuxa Cloister: 1.7 mi
- Tetards Hill: 0.3 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 0.5 mi
- Marble Hill: 0.8 mi
- Inwood Hill: 0.9 mi
- Bronx High Point: 1.1 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 0.8 mi
- Canoe Beach: 1.2 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 1.3 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 1.4 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 1.5 mi
- Glyndor Gallery: 0.8 mi
- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 1.3 mi
- The Met Cloisters: 1.7 mi
- Poe Cottage: 1.9 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 2.1 mi
- Coyote: 1.0 mi
- Columnade: 1.9 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 2.2 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 2.2 mi
- Obra1: 2.6 mi
- Palisades: 1.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.9 mi
- The Palisades: 4.4 mi
- Palisades: 5.7 mi
- Palisades: 6.6 mi
- Parking: 1.9 mi
- Birds of Prey: 3.0 mi
- Madagascar!: 3.1 mi
- Monkey House: 3.1 mi
- Amazing Amphibians: 3.1 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 5.6 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 6.0 mi
- Westchester Lenoir Preserve: 6.4 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 6.5 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 4.2 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.8 mi
- The Backyard: 9.3 mi
- Street Seats: 9.5 mi
- The Falls: 4.0 mi
- The Loch: 6.7 mi
- Great Falls: 14.0 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 15.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 15.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 9.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 9.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 12.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 21.3 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 21.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.6 mi
- Cuties Island: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Raoul Wallenberg Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 292° | 268 m | 15.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 292° | 260 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 291° | 230 m | 15.7 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 308° | 224 m | 18.8 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 360° | 214 m | 16.2 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 20° | 211 m | 16.4 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 357° | 208 m | 11.3 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 292° | 185 m | 17.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:48 | 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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 5 mi away.
- white snakeroot2,382 obs
- garlic mustard1,415 obs
- common mugwort1,333 obs
- Porcelain Berry1,333 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,039 obs
- eastern poison ivy948 obs
- American jumpseed946 obs
- northern spicebush932 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/244772825
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