Travis Triangle
Travis Triangle is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is The Voelker Orth Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.0 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 5.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 20.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- The Voelker Orth Museum: 0.2 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 0.6 mi
- John Bowne House: 0.7 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 0.9 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 2.1 mi
- Leonard Square: 0.3 mi
- Murray Hill Playground: 0.4 mi
- Greenstreets: 0.4 mi
- Bowne Park: 0.4 mi
- Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
- Weeping Beech Historical Marker: 0.6 mi
- Fox Oaks: 0.7 mi
- Flushing Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Kissena Park World War I Monument: 1.4 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Second Base 1964-2008: 2.0 mi
- Seal: 1.2 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Perpetual Nature: 1.4 mi
- Wood Pile: 1.7 mi
- Tom Seaver: 1.9 mi
- Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 1.3 mi
- Pinetum: 1.3 mi
- Circle Garden: 1.3 mi
- Oak Allée: 1.3 mi
- Floral Border: 1.3 mi
- Evergreen Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Wedding Garden: 1.4 mi
- Children's Garden: 1.4 mi
- Queens Botanical Garden: 1.4 mi
- Althea Gibson Sculpture Garden: 2.1 mi
- Parsons Beach: 3.1 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 6.4 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 6.7 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.7 mi
- PWEA Beach: 6.8 mi
- Virginia Point: 3.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Barbara Johnson Preserve: 7.6 mi
- Half Moon Wetland Conservancy: 7.7 mi
- Queens High Point: 5.0 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 5.1 mi
- Janes Hill: 6.0 mi
- Laurel Hill: 6.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 7.3 mi
- Street Seats: 7.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 7.3 mi
- Picnic Area D: 9.2 mi
- Picnic Area C: 9.2 mi
- Picnic Area F: 9.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 8.0 mi
- Palisades: 9.7 mi
- Palisades: 10.9 mi
- Palisades: 10.9 mi
- Palisades: 12.2 mi
- The Loch: 7.9 mi
- The Falls: 8.5 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 8.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 8.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 18.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 22.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 12.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.8 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Travis Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Nebo | NNW 343° | 208 m | 20.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 278° | 179 m | 22.7 mi |
| Cooney Hill | N 10° | 170 m | 23.5 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | N 8° | 156 m | 21.0 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 356° | 147 m | 22.4 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 358° | 140 m | 20.8 mi |
| Hackley Hill | N 355° | 140 m | 21.2 mi |
| Tappan Hill | N 354° | 127 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:31 |
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 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly232 obs
- common mugwort214 obs
- Mallard186 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel186 obs
- Rock Pigeon180 obs
- American Robin180 obs
- Canada Goose173 obs
- Wood Duck165 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/562607569
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 1 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 5 mi
- Bronx · 6 mi
- Manhasset · 7 mi
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