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Riverdale Playground

Riverdale Playground from directly overhead

Riverdale Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 65 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is PS24 Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.4 miles off.

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Coordinates40.88781, -73.91477
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • PS24 Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Pure Love Organic Farms: 0.3 mi
  • Bruce Reynolds Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Saint-Guilhem Cloister: 1.8 mi
  • Cuxa Cloister: 1.8 mi
Parks
Historic sites
Peaks
Museums
Artworks
Beaches
Cliffs
Attractions
Nature reserves
Picnic sites: 42
Waterfalls: 13
  • The Falls: 3.9 mi
  • The Loch: 6.8 mi
  • Great Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Bridal Veil Falls: 15.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 15.7 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 21.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Riverdale Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainWNW 291°268 m15.9 mi
Beech MountainWNW 292°260 m17.0 mi
Mount CecchinoWNW 290°230 m15.8 mi
Campgaw MountainNW 308°224 m18.8 mi
Hook MountainN 359°214 m16.1 mi
Buttermilk HillNNE 19°211 m16.3 mi
Mount NeboN 357°208 m11.2 mi
Poacher PeakWNW 291°185 m17.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:32
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1815:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343642536373787770584839
Precip in3.73.24.43.94.14.64.44.84.64.13.44.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • white snakeroot2,788 obs
  • garlic mustard1,545 obs
  • common mugwort1,345 obs
  • Porcelain Berry1,244 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel1,065 obs
  • northern spicebush1,030 obs
  • American jumpseed1,013 obs
  • eastern poison ivy991 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/244790315

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