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Smiling Hogshead Ranch

Smiling Hogshead Ranch from directly overhead

Smiling Hogshead Ranch is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Albert E Short Triangle, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 6.7 miles off.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.74265, -73.94372

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks
Gardens
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Laurel Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.5 mi
  • Vista Rock: 2.9 mi
  • Summit Rock: 3.1 mi
  • Great Hill: 3.8 mi
Beaches
  • Hallet’s Cove: 1.9 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 3.5 mi
  • Pebble Beach: 3.6 mi
  • Maxwell Place Beach: 4.2 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 4.3 mi
Picnic sites: 44
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 4.5 mi
  • Palisades: 5.2 mi
  • Palisades: 5.2 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 6.2 mi
  • Palisades: 10.3 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • The Loch: 3.7 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 5.8 mi
  • The Falls: 11.4 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.9 miles of Smiling Hogshead Ranch. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 320°268 m20.6 mi
Beech MountainNW 319°260 m21.7 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 319°230 m20.4 mi
Mount NeboN 2°208 m21.2 mi
Poacher PeakNW 318°185 m22.1 mi
Moon HillNW 318°180 m21.8 mi
Stony HillWNW 287°179 m16.4 mi
Mayapple HillW 277°175 m18.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
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, 3 mi away.

  • Rock Pigeon3,291 obs
  • tree-of-heaven1,432 obs
  • northern seaside goldenrod964 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly926 obs
  • common mugwort878 obs
  • House Sparrow656 obs
  • flixweed511 obs
  • American Robin497 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/362679830

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