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St. Gregory's Playground

St. Gregory's Playground from directly overhead

St. Gregory's Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 33 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is West Side Community Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 4.5 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
33 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.78955, -73.97205

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Peaks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Picnic sites: 43
Cliffs: 16
  • Palisades: 1.7 mi
  • Palisades: 2.9 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 3.4 mi
  • Palisades: 4.9 mi
  • Palisades: 7.2 mi
Waterfalls: 13
  • The Loch: 0.7 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.8 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 8.8 mi
  • The Falls: 9.7 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 16.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.8 miles of St. Gregory's Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 317°268 m17.2 mi
Beech MountainNW 316°260 m18.3 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 316°230 m17.0 mi
Mount NeboN 7°208 m18.1 mi
Poacher PeakNW 315°185 m18.7 mi
Moon HillNW 315°180 m18.4 mi
Stony HillW 276°179 m14.3 mi
Mayapple HillW 266°175 m16.6 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, under a mile away.

  • white snakeroot10,702 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel4,825 obs
  • American Robin4,393 obs
  • Rock Pigeon4,383 obs
  • common milkweed3,814 obs
  • House Sparrow3,736 obs
  • tree-of-heaven2,905 obs
  • Pond Slider2,889 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/1288810449

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