Park · New York
Saint Michael's Playground
Saint Michael's Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Saint Michael's Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates40.75885, -73.90040
- 4.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Saint Michael's Park: 0.3 mi
- Strippoli Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Sergeant Collins Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Bulova Park: 0.5 mi
- No-Bro Greenstreet: 0.5 mi
Gardens
- Farm on other side of BQE: 0.4 mi
- Farm on hill by BQE: 0.4 mi
- Moore Jackson Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- New Roots Community Garden Queens: 1.1 mi
- New Roots Community Garden Queens: 1.1 mi
Historic sites
- 9/11 Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Gorman Playground Plaque: 0.9 mi
- Doughboy, WWI vets: 1.0 mi
- 9/11 woodside firefighters memorial: 1.0 mi
- Site of the Sunnyside Garden Arena: 1.5 mi
Artworks
- Mahbuhay: 0.9 mi
- Lucky: 0.9 mi
- Rocket: 1.2 mi
- Bear: 1.2 mi
- Rocket: 1.2 mi
Attractions
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 1.2 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 2.5 mi
- Rocket Park: 2.6 mi
- Blackwell House: 2.7 mi
- Owl: 2.8 mi
Museums
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.2 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.2 mi
- The Noguchi Museum: 2.0 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 2.1 mi
- MoMA PS1: 2.6 mi
Peaks
- Maspeth Plateau: 1.9 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 3.7 mi
- Mount Morris: 3.9 mi
- Vista Rock: 3.9 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.0 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.9 mi
- Pebble Beach: 6.0 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 6.5 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 6.7 mi
Nature reserves
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.8 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.9 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.5 mi
- Bird Island: 6.7 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 7.1 mi
Picnic sites: 41
- Street Seats: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.9 mi
Cliffs: 17
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 6.4 mi
- Palisades: 7.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.4 mi
Waterfalls: 10
- The Loch: 4.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.7 mi
- The Falls: 9.5 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 21.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.1 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.6 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 20.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Barber: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Saint Michael's Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 313° | 268 m | 21.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 313° | 260 m | 22.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 313° | 230 m | 21.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 356° | 208 m | 20.1 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 312° | 185 m | 22.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 312° | 180 m | 22.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 282° | 179 m | 18.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 273° | 175 m | 20.3 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 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven492 obs
- Rock Pigeon392 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel213 obs
- House Sparrow209 obs
- Mourning Dove173 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly139 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee122 obs
- European Starling112 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/236586871
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 3 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
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