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Rodney Playground North

Rodney Playground North from directly overhead

Rodney Playground North is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Rodney Playground Center, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.9 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
5 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.71115, -73.95494

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Prayer: 0.4 mi
  • Virgin Mary: 0.4 mi
  • 9/11: 0.6 mi
  • Bucket Conveyor: 0.7 mi
  • Lounge Screw Conveyor: 0.7 mi
Attractions
  • MV Schamonchi: 1.2 mi
  • Zohramp: 1.7 mi
  • Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 1.9 mi
  • Couv Led Zepp 5e album: 1.9 mi
  • Anarchy 99: 2.0 mi
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 3.5 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.0 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.2 mi
Peaks: 58
  • Laurel Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 3.3 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.5 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.6 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 5.1 mi
  • Palisades: 5.3 mi
  • Palisades: 7.0 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.4 mi
  • Palisades: 12.5 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.5 mi
  • The Loch: 5.8 mi
  • The Falls: 13.6 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 17.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 325°268 m22.0 mi
Beech MountainNW 324°260 m23.0 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 324°230 m21.7 mi
Mount NeboN 4°208 m23.4 mi
Poacher PeakNW 322°185 m23.4 mi
Moon HillNW 323°180 m23.1 mi
Stony HillWNW 295°179 m16.6 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 284°175 m18.0 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 solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly1,078 obs
  • tree-of-heaven884 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee797 obs
  • Monarch741 obs
  • Rock Pigeon716 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel586 obs
  • House Sparrow575 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk547 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/365936698

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