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Tiger Playground

Tiger Playground from directly overhead

Tiger Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Evergreen Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.6 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.68821, -73.91098
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
Peaks: 52
  • Laurel Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 3.0 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 3.5 mi
Picnic sites: 44
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 7.9 mi
  • Palisades: 8.1 mi
  • Palisades: 9.3 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.1 mi
  • Palisades: 14.1 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • Binnen Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.7 mi
  • The Loch: 7.8 mi
  • The Falls: 14.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 20.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 322°268 m24.6 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 322°230 m24.4 mi
Mount NeboN 358°208 m24.9 mi
Stony HillWNW 296°179 m19.4 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 287°175 m20.6 mi
Packanack MountainNW 314°144 m24.1 mi
Riker HillWNW 291°134 m23.3 mi
Todt HillWSW 240°125 m12.3 mi
Conditions

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 °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly317 obs
  • tree-of-heaven223 obs
  • Rock Pigeon214 obs
  • princess tree210 obs
  • common mugwort188 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee157 obs
  • American pokeweed136 obs
  • white snakeroot134 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/263738711

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