Veterans Memorial Park
Veterans Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Jayne's Hill stands 122 m to the northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Village of East Meadow Monument, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 18 miles off. 40 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 21 m
How to reach it
- 18.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 23.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 23.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Village of East Meadow Monument: 0.1 mi
- Eisenhower Park Firefighters Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Veterans Plaza: 2.1 mi
- Camp Meeting Grounds: 2.4 mi
- Bellmore Maintenance Facility: 2.4 mi
- East Meadow Bird Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Francis Purcell Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Hempstead Plains Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Roosevelt Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Wantagh Woods: 3.0 mi
- Speno Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
- East Meadow Baseball Complex: 1.0 mi
- Briar Place Park: 1.2 mi
- Eisenhower Memorial Park: 1.4 mi
- Horseshoe Park: 1.6 mi
- Dwight David Eisenhower: 0.9 mi
- Upright Motive No.9: 2.1 mi
- Trap: 2.1 mi
- Dialogue between Plato and Socrates: 2.2 mi
- Lost and Found: An Excavation Project: 3.4 mi
- Rose Garden: 1.6 mi
- Hofstra University Suburban Ecological Research Site: 2.0 mi
- Sensory Garden: 2.1 mi
- Roosevelt Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Hicksville Garden: 4.3 mi
- Museum Row: 2.2 mi
- Cradle of Aviation Museum: 2.2 mi
- Nassau County Firefighters Museum: 2.3 mi
- Long Island Children Museum: 2.4 mi
- Flying Through the Years at Roosevelt Field: 3.3 mi
- Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 3.4 mi
- Jamaica: 3.4 mi
- Nautical Mile: 5.5 mi
- US Army Corps of Engineers Survey Point: 8.4 mi
- ATCG Tower: 11.2 mi
- Alhambra Beach: 6.0 mi
- Jones Beach: 8.7 mi
- Amityville Beach: 8.9 mi
- Harbor Isle Beach: 9.1 mi
- Lido Beach: 9.2 mi
- Harbor Hill: 7.3 mi
- Mannetto Hills: 8.0 mi
- Queens High Point: 8.9 mi
- West Hills: 9.8 mi
- Jayne's Hill: 10.0 mi
- Sycamore: 1.1 mi
- Birches: 1.3 mi
- Black Pine: 1.3 mi
- South Maples: 1.5 mi
- Cedars: 1.5 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 13.0 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 15.1 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 16.3 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 16.3 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 17.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 13.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.7 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 18.8 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 20.8 mi
- The Falls: 19.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 21.6 mi
- The Loch: 21.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 21.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 21.8 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 14.2 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Veterans Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jayne's Hill | NE 45° | 122 m | 10.0 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NW 325° | 106 m | 7.3 mi |
| West Hills | NE 43° | 106 m | 9.8 mi |
| Dix Hills | NE 56° | 92 m | 13.0 mi |
| Signal Hill | NE 54° | 90 m | 12.3 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | NE 43° | 85 m | 8.0 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NW 306° | 85 m | 22.1 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | WNW 296° | 81 m | 22.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:47 | 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 | 53 | 62 | 71 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 3 mi away.
- Spotted spurge822 obs
- Common Purslane105 obs
- common mugwort91 obs
- American Robin80 obs
- hairy bittercress79 obs
- black cherry76 obs
- white clover69 obs
- House Sparrow67 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/331691739
Day trips start here
- Nassau County · 2 mi
- Hempstead · 3 mi
- Merrick · 4 mi
- South Oyster Bay · 4 mi
- Garden City · 5 mi
- Mineola · 5 mi
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