Tilden Playground
Tilden Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Harry Maze Playground, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 46 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 12.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Harry Maze Playground: 0.5 mi
- Fidler-Wyckoff House Park: 0.6 mi
- Paerdegat Park: 0.8 mi
- Chiarantano Playground: 0.8 mi
- Curtis Playground: 0.9 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 0.6 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 1.7 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 2.0 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 2.0 mi
- Carousel: 2.0 mi
- Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Association Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Maple Street Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Newport Gardens: 1.5 mi
- Eastern Parkway Farm: 1.6 mi
- Caton Migration Garden: 1.7 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 1.3 mi
- Zion Park War Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Ebbets Field Home Plate: 1.8 mi
- Washington Irving Memorial: 1.8 mi
- K.S.: 1.9 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 1.4 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 1.6 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.9 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 2.0 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 2.1 mi
- Now & Then: 1.8 mi
- Dragon Fountain: 1.8 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 2.0 mi
- Robert Fulton: 2.2 mi
- OY/YO: 2.4 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 2.7 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 4.3 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 4.9 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 5.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.0 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.5 mi
- Rookery: 3.5 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.6 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 4.2 mi
- Bird Island: 4.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 2.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 2.0 mi
- Lookout Hill: 2.2 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 2.3 mi
- Quaker Hill: 2.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 4.9 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.0 mi
- Street Seats: 7.1 mi
- Palisades: 8.8 mi
- Palisades: 9.7 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 12.8 mi
- Palisades: 16.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 2.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 2.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 2.3 mi
- The Loch: 10.3 mi
- The Falls: 17.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 13.4 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 13.4 mi
- North Tower: 17.6 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 17.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.5 mi
- Barber: 19.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tilden Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 305° | 179 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 295° | 175 m | 20.6 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 299° | 134 m | 23.5 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 251° | 125 m | 10.2 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 217° | 120 m | 22.2 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 55° | 106 m | 18.5 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 216° | 106 m | 21.6 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 287° | 92 m | 20.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:32 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly213 obs
- common mugwort189 obs
- Rock Pigeon178 obs
- white snakeroot175 obs
- European Starling157 obs
- Canada Goose155 obs
- House Sparrow153 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee123 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 siteOpenStreetMap element way/1151010309
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 1 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 4 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Downstate New York · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 6 mi
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