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Star Spangled Banner Playground

Star Spangled Banner Playground from directly overhead

Star Spangled Banner Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 18 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Lafayette Gardens Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 10 miles off. 56 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
18 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.69158, -73.95800

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Beaches
Nature reserves
Peaks: 56
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 5.7 mi
  • Palisades: 6.3 mi
  • Palisades: 8.3 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.8 mi
  • Palisades: 13.8 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.0 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.2 mi
  • The Loch: 7.1 mi
  • The Falls: 14.9 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Star Spangled Banner Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 327°268 m23.0 mi
Beech MountainNW 326°260 m24.0 mi
Mount CecchinoNNW 326°230 m22.7 mi
Mount NeboN 4°208 m24.7 mi
Poacher PeakNW 325°185 m24.4 mi
Moon HillNW 325°180 m24.1 mi
Stony HillWNW 299°179 m17.1 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 288°175 m18.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4916:32

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, 6 mi away.

  • American Robin1,018 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly970 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee865 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel777 obs
  • Monarch750 obs
  • House Sparrow741 obs
  • Rock Pigeon714 obs
  • Mourning Dove701 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/365937391

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