Roger Morris Park
Roger Morris Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 51 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Morris-Jumel Mansion, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.9 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 51 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 1.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- West 160th Street: 0.0 mi
- West 162nd Street: 0.1 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.1 mi
- West 160th Street: 0.1 mi
- West 159th Street: 0.1 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.1 mi
- Harris Garden: 0.4 mi
- Hope the Friendly Garden on Hill: 0.4 mi
- Bradhurst Community Garden of Love: 0.5 mi
- The Garden: 0.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.1 mi
- Palisades: 3.2 mi
- Palisades: 3.9 mi
- Palisades: 6.2 mi
- The Palisades: 8.0 mi
- McKenna Square: 0.3 mi
- Ilka Tanya Payán Park: 0.4 mi
- Holcombe Rucker Park: 0.4 mi
- Mitchel Square: 0.4 mi
- Summit Avenue Park: 0.4 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.7 mi
- Our Gates: 0.9 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 0.9 mi
- Portrait of t.: 0.9 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 1.6 mi
- Joker Stairs: 0.8 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 0.8 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 0.9 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.2 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.7 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.1 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.1 mi
- Long Hill: 2.1 mi
- Great Hill: 2.8 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.6 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.1 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.3 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.7 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.5 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.0 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.3 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.0 mi
- Street Seats: 5.9 mi
- The Backyard: 7.0 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.9 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- The Loch: 3.0 mi
- The Falls: 6.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.1 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.0 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.2 miles of Roger Morris Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 305° | 268 m | 16.5 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 305° | 260 m | 17.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 304° | 230 m | 16.4 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 3° | 214 m | 19.8 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 19° | 211 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 2° | 208 m | 14.8 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 304° | 185 m | 18.1 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 303° | 180 m | 17.8 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 | 07:17 | 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, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly811 obs
- common mugwort767 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel766 obs
- House Sparrow504 obs
- Porcelain Berry475 obs
- American Robin429 obs
- American pokeweed395 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee393 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/959894788
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Englewood · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
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