Ruoff Triangle
Ruoff Triangle is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Dixon Triangle, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.8 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 9.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 13.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Dixon Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Ampere Playground: 0.2 mi
- London Planetree Playground: 0.2 mi
- Lieutenant Clinton L Whiting Square: 0.4 mi
- Corporal Ruoff Square: 0.5 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 0.9 mi
- Betty Smith 1943: 1.0 mi
- Richmond Hill War Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Richmond Hill Branch: 1.7 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 1.0 mi
- King Manor Museum: 2.9 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 3.6 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 3.8 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 4.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Garden: 1.2 mi
- Euclid Garden: 1.2 mi
- Crystal/Wells Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Euclid Pine Block Association: 1.3 mi
- Manley's Place: 1.4 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 1.2 mi
- JFK: 4.0 mi
- Welcome Center: 4.1 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 4.2 mi
- Feltman Carousel: 4.2 mi
- Dolphin: 1.3 mi
- The City Don't Sleep: 1.7 mi
- Egret: 2.3 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 2.4 mi
- Absent Monuments: 3.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 2.1 mi
- Rookery: 4.5 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 5.1 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 6.0 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 6.3 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 4.1 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 7.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 7.4 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 7.4 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 7.6 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.1 mi
- Laurel Hill: 4.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 6.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 6.2 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 6.2 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 4.8 mi
- Picnic Area D: 6.5 mi
- Picnic Area C: 6.5 mi
- Picnic Area F: 6.6 mi
- Picnic Area G: 6.6 mi
- Palisades: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 10.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 11.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.3 mi
- Palisades: 15.2 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 17.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 17.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.4 mi
- The Loch: 9.6 mi
- The Falls: 14.2 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.2 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.5 mi
- Barber: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ruoff Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 294° | 179 m | 22.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 285° | 175 m | 23.6 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 248° | 125 m | 14.9 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 68° | 122 m | 24.2 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 54° | 106 m | 13.8 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 67° | 106 m | 23.9 mi |
| Nook Hill | W 279° | 92 m | 24.2 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 350° | 85 m | 15.1 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 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| 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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 6 mi away.
- Asian bittersweet306 obs
- garlic mustard273 obs
- sassafras218 obs
- multiflora rose204 obs
- American jumpseed192 obs
- American Robin188 obs
- northern spicebush179 obs
- eastern poison ivy168 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/564424524
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 2 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 3 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 5 mi
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