Turtle Playground
Turtle Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Cedar Grove Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 6.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 21 m
How to reach it
- 6.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 10.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 21.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cedar Grove Playground: 0.4 mi
- Kissena Meditation Garden: 0.5 mi
- Kissena Corridor Park: 0.5 mi
- Rachel Carson Playground: 0.5 mi
- Cooperman Plaza: 0.6 mi
- Evergreen Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Queens Botanical Garden: 0.5 mi
- Wedding Garden: 0.6 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.6 mi
- Urban Agriculture: 0.7 mi
- Magnolia Walk: 0.5 mi
- Wetland & Woodland Garden: 0.5 mi
- Arboretum/Crabapple Grove: 0.5 mi
- Unity Garden: 0.6 mi
- Perennial Garden: 0.6 mi
- Cube: 0.6 mi
- More Balls for Klapper Hall: 0.7 mi
- Column of Jerash: 0.8 mi
- Rocket Thrower: 0.8 mi
- George Washington as Master Mason: 0.9 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 0.7 mi
- Queens Museum: 1.0 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 1.3 mi
- John Bowne House: 1.4 mi
- Kingsland Homestead: 1.5 mi
- Observation Towers: 0.9 mi
- Unisphere: 0.9 mi
- Unisphere: 1.0 mi
- Unisphere: 1.0 mi
- Unisphere: 1.0 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 3.8 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.1 mi
- Queens High Point: 5.8 mi
- Janes Hill: 6.5 mi
- Mount Morris: 7.4 mi
- Parsons Beach: 4.4 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 6.0 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 8.3 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 8.4 mi
- PWEA Beach: 8.4 mi
- Virginia Point: 5.0 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.1 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.3 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 6.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.1 mi
- Street Seats: 6.4 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Area D: 8.1 mi
- Picnic Area C: 8.1 mi
- Picnic Area F: 8.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 8.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.7 mi
- Palisades: 10.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.9 mi
- The Loch: 7.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 9.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 9.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 9.4 mi
- The Falls: 10.1 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 12.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.5 miles of Turtle Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Nebo | NNW 346° | 208 m | 21.8 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 283° | 179 m | 22.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 275° | 175 m | 24.2 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | N 9° | 156 m | 22.8 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 358° | 147 m | 24.0 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 360° | 140 m | 22.5 mi |
| Hackley Hill | N 357° | 140 m | 22.8 mi |
| Tappan Hill | N 357° | 127 m | 22.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 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 | 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.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel414 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly362 obs
- Rock Pigeon324 obs
- American Robin313 obs
- common mugwort309 obs
- Mallard295 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird290 obs
- tree-of-heaven211 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/556544865
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 2 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 3 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
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