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Veterans Park

Veterans Park from directly overhead

Veterans Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 10 m. Mount Cecchino stands 230 m to the north, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Levy Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.63722, -74.13184
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Levy Playground: 0.3 mi
  • Faber Park: 0.3 mi
  • Dennis P. Collins Park: 0.6 mi
  • Heritage Park: 0.6 mi
  • Elm Park: 0.7 mi
Gardens
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Signal Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Todt Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Park Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Fox Hills: 3.3 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Picnic sites: 41
Waterfalls: 13
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 8.8 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 11.3 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 11.4 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Palisades: 8.7 mi
  • Palisades: 10.8 mi
  • Hawk Hill: 11.6 mi
  • Palisades: 14.0 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 16.0 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 11.7 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 24.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Veterans Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount CecchinoN 351°230 m23.0 mi
Sugar LoafWNW 295°229 m23.1 mi
Gillespie HillWNW 297°217 m22.2 mi
Mount KembleWNW 294°215 m22.3 mi
Kinneys HillWNW 300°180 m21.6 mi
Stony HillNNW 334°179 m13.4 mi
Mayapple HillNW 319°175 m12.5 mi
Second Watchung MountainW 264°168 m22.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:32
September equinox06:4518:1918:56
December solstice07:1815:4916:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly155 obs
  • Porcelain Berry144 obs
  • Mallard137 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel111 obs
  • American Robin103 obs
  • white snakeroot101 obs
  • Pond Slider97 obs
  • Great Blue Heron89 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/35578834

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