Veterans of Foreign War Memorial Park
Veterans of Foreign War Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 39 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Patriots' Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.6 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Manhasset Park District
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 16.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Patriots' Park: 0.1 mi
- Mary Jane Davies Green: 0.3 mi
- Park Avenue Park: 0.3 mi
- Manhasset Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Four Acre Park: 0.4 mi
- Manhasset Gold Star Monument: 0.2 mi
- Manhasset Gold Star Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Manhasset Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Manhasset Park Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Manhasset WWI Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Greentree Walled Garden: 0.6 mi
- Freddy's Garden: 1.1 mi
- Colonial Garden: 1.8 mi
- Formal Garden: 2.8 mi
- Clark Community Garden: 3.1 mi
- St. Francis Statue: 1.5 mi
- Mackay Horse Tamer: 2.4 mi
- Mackay Horse Tamer: 2.9 mi
- Dog: 3.3 mi
- Penn Station Eagle: 3.7 mi
- Science Museum of Long Island: 1.6 mi
- Sands-Willets Homestead: 1.7 mi
- Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society: 1.7 mi
- Roslyn Landmark Society: 2.3 mi
- Van Nostrand - Starkins House And Museum: 2.5 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 1.8 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 1.9 mi
- PWEA Beach: 2.1 mi
- Baxter Estates Village Beach: 2.9 mi
- Parsons Beach: 3.4 mi
- Harbor Hill Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Barbara Johnson Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Virginia Point: 2.8 mi
- William Cullen Bryant Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Hempstead Harbor Natural Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Queens High Point: 2.8 mi
- Harbor Hill: 2.9 mi
- Mill Neck Peak: 9.7 mi
- Harrison Williams Woods Peak: 10.5 mi
- Janes Hill: 11.4 mi
- Circle Garden: 7.5 mi
- Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 7.5 mi
- Wetland & Woodland Garden: 7.5 mi
- Welcome Center: 7.5 mi
- Pinetum: 7.5 mi
- West Lindens: 7.4 mi
- Lindens B: 7.4 mi
- North Maples: 7.4 mi
- Lindens A: 7.5 mi
- Cedars: 7.5 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 12.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Palisades: 14.6 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 15.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 5.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 6.3 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 12.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 17.2 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 17.2 mi
- The Falls: 10.1 mi
- The Loch: 13.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 16.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 16.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 17.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 17.7 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 19.8 mi
- Cuties Island: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Veterans of Foreign War Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buttermilk Hill | NNW 345° | 211 m | 22.8 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NW 326° | 208 m | 21.5 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | N 350° | 180 m | 21.9 mi |
| Round Hill | N 3° | 172 m | 21.5 mi |
| Cooney Hill | N 355° | 170 m | 21.4 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | N 350° | 156 m | 19.2 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | NNW 339° | 147 m | 21.9 mi |
| Beaver Hill | NNW 340° | 140 m | 20.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| 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, 6 mi away.
- American Robin51 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel48 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly33 obs
- Mourning Dove32 obs
- Eastern Cottontail28 obs
- lesser celandine26 obs
- Blue Jay25 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage25 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/1037221033
Day trips start here
- Manhasset · 0 mi
- Flower Hill · 1 mi
- The Plandomes · 1 mi
- Roslyn · 2 mi
- North Hempstead · 3 mi
- Port Washington · 3 mi
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