Park · New York
Ravenswood Playground
Ravenswood Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sixteen Oaks Grove, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.76247, -73.93549
- 5.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 6.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 23.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Sixteen Oaks Grove: 0.3 mi
- Spirit Playground: 0.3 mi
- Rainey Park: 0.4 mi
- Dutch Kills Playground: 0.4 mi
- Socrates Sculpture Park: 0.4 mi
Museums
- The Noguchi Museum: 0.3 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 0.7 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 0.7 mi
- Mount Vernon Hotel Museum: 1.3 mi
- MoMA PS1: 1.3 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 0.5 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.3 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 4.7 mi
- Pebble Beach: 4.9 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 5.4 mi
Gardens
- Hellsgate Farms: 0.5 mi
- Roosevelt Island Garden Club: 0.6 mi
- Two Coves Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Entry Court: 1.2 mi
- Sutton Terrace Courtyard: 1.2 mi
Artworks
- Welling Court Mural Project: 0.7 mi
- Sabrina: 0.7 mi
- The Girl Puzzle Monument: 0.7 mi
- Welcome to Queens: 0.8 mi
- P.S. 17Q: 0.8 mi
Attractions
- Blackwell House: 0.8 mi
- Roosevelt Island Sign: 1.0 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 1.2 mi
- Pepsi-Cola Sign: 1.6 mi
- Eleanor Roosevelt High Residence: 1.6 mi
Historic sites
- Gelasio Reyes: 1.3 mi
- World War 1: 1.3 mi
- General Slocum Disaster: 1.3 mi
- Ghost Bike: 1.3 mi
- Smallpox Hospital: 1.5 mi
Nature reserves
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 2.1 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 2.6 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.6 mi
- Bird Island: 5.6 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 6.4 mi
Peaks
- Vista Rock: 2.1 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.3 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.3 mi
- Great Hill: 2.7 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.9 mi
Picnic sites: 44
- Street Seats: 1.1 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.0 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.5 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.8 mi
Cliffs: 16
- Palisades: 4.3 mi
- Palisades: 4.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Palisades: 5.8 mi
- Palisades: 8.9 mi
Waterfalls: 10
- The Loch: 2.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.2 mi
- The Falls: 10.0 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 21.1 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 13.8 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 23.3 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.3 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Ravenswood Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 316° | 268 m | 19.9 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 316° | 260 m | 21.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 316° | 230 m | 19.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 1° | 208 m | 19.8 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 315° | 185 m | 21.4 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 315° | 180 m | 21.1 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 282° | 179 m | 16.5 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 272° | 175 m | 18.5 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 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven2,516 obs
- Rock Pigeon2,145 obs
- Box Sucker1,348 obs
- princess tree1,088 obs
- white snakeroot1,087 obs
- Mourning Dove1,010 obs
- common mugwort993 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod990 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/134164241
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- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 3 mi
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