Sunshine Acres Park
Sunshine Acres Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 45 m. Canoe Hill stands 140 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Burr-Winkle Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 21 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 45 m
How to reach it
- 21.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 28.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Burr-Winkle Park: 0.8 mi
- Burr-Winkle Park: 0.8 mi
- Cedar Road Park: 0.9 mi
- Welcome To East Nortport Sign: 1.2 mi
- Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center: 1.3 mi
- Veterans Park Nature Study Area: 2.8 mi
- Kings Park Unique Area: 3.2 mi
- Knolls Park: 3.2 mi
- Meadowlark Park: 3.3 mi
- Blydenburgh Park Historic District: 3.5 mi
- Vietnam Veterans of America: 3.3 mi
- Wall of Wars: 3.3 mi
- Statue of Whisper the Bull: 4.3 mi
- Centerport Memorial: 4.7 mi
- WW II Memorial: 4.8 mi
- Inferno: 3.3 mi
- Heron Statue: 5.3 mi
- Animal Sculptures: 6.5 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 7.1 mi
- Long Island: 7.7 mi
- Caleb Smith House: 3.5 mi
- Northport Historical Society: 4.7 mi
- Vanderbilt Museum, Mansion, and Planetarium: 5.6 mi
- The Arsenal: 6.5 mi
- Heckscher Museum of Art: 7.0 mi
- Callahans Beach: 5.0 mi
- Northport Beach: 5.0 mi
- Makamah Beach: 5.6 mi
- Huntington Beach: 5.8 mi
- Crab Meadow Beach: 5.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 5.6 mi
- Carlls River Botanical Garden: 7.1 mi
- Organic Demonstration Site #1: 7.5 mi
- Garden of Normandie East: 8.1 mi
- Garden of Normandie North: 8.2 mi
- Dix Hills: 3.8 mi
- Signal Hill: 4.5 mi
- Half Hollow Hills: 5.9 mi
- Jayne's Hill: 7.3 mi
- West Hills: 7.6 mi
- Wolf 5: 3.7 mi
- Wolf 4: 3.7 mi
- Wolf 3: 3.8 mi
- Wolf 2: 3.8 mi
- Wolf 1: 3.8 mi
- Suffolk County Vanderbilt Planetarium: 5.6 mi
- Hercules Pavillion: 9.0 mi
- ATCG Tower: 9.2 mi
- Oyster Bay Railroad Station Turntable: 12.5 mi
- Long Island Maritime Museum: 13.5 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 9.1 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 12.1 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 16.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 17.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 17.4 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 7.0 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 10.8 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 11.1 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 11.4 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 11.9 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 3.3 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 21.2 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 21.2 mi
- Cuties Island: 17.3 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 22.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sunshine Acres Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canoe Hill | NNW 336° | 140 m | 24.1 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | WSW 252° | 122 m | 7.3 mi |
| Pavement Hill | N 1° | 120 m | 24.0 mi |
| Ferris Hill | NNW 336° | 120 m | 24.5 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNW 337° | 120 m | 24.9 mi |
| West Hills | WSW 254° | 106 m | 7.6 mi |
| Harbor Hill | W 260° | 106 m | 18.4 mi |
| Belden Hill | NNW 341° | 105 m | 23.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:45 | 16:29 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 39 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Centerport, 5 mi away.
- Eastern Cottontail15 obs
- common mugwort13 obs
- black raspberry12 obs
- black cherry10 obs
- flowering dogwood9 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly9 obs
- Norway maple8 obs
- white oak8 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/192288988
Day trips start here
- Oyster Bay · 13 mi
- South Oyster Bay · 13 mi
- Bayville · 14 mi
- Nassau County · 17 mi
- Glen Cove · 18 mi
- Merrick · 19 mi
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