Virginia Playground
Virginia Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Virginia Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 0.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 4.7 m
- Elevation
- 9 m
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 5.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 17.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Virginia Park: 0.0 mi
- Hugh J. Grant Circle: 0.1 mi
- Wood Park: 0.2 mi
- Parkchester Southern Park: 0.2 mi
- Saint Lawrence Triangle: 0.3 mi
- River Garden: 0.9 mi
- Drew Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Manor Avenue Seniors Garden: 1.0 mi
- Angie Lee-Gonzalez and Luis Gonzalez Garden: 1.2 mi
- Seabury MBD Community Park: 1.4 mi
- Jungle World: 1.0 mi
- Nature Trek: 1.1 mi
- Lions: 1.2 mi
- World of Darkness: 1.2 mi
- Somba Village: 1.3 mi
- Westchester Square: 1.1 mi
- 9/11: 1.7 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 2.1 mi
- Ghost Bike: Michael Needham: 2.2 mi
- Pelham Bay Park World War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 1.5 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 4.2 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 6.4 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 6.7 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 6.9 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 2.2 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 2.3 mi
- Shamrock: 2.5 mi
- Poppenhusen: 3.3 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 3.4 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 2.4 mi
- Poe Cottage: 2.7 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 3.0 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 3.1 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 3.2 mi
- Janes Hill: 3.0 mi
- Marble Hill: 3.9 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 4.2 mi
- Long Hill: 4.2 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 4.3 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.4 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.5 mi
- Hazard Beach: 5.2 mi
- Glen Island: 5.4 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.4 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.7 mi
- Street Seats: 7.4 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.4 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- The Backyard: 11.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 4.0 mi
- Palisades: 5.7 mi
- Palisades: 6.9 mi
- The Palisades: 8.6 mi
- Palisades: 9.4 mi
- The Falls: 3.9 mi
- The Loch: 5.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 13.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 13.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 13.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 7.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 7.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 20.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.6 mi
- Cuties Island: 23.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.4 miles of Virginia Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 298° | 268 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 297° | 230 m | 19.8 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 352° | 214 m | 20.0 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 8° | 211 m | 19.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 347° | 208 m | 15.2 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 15° | 180 m | 19.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 266° | 179 m | 20.0 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NNE 20° | 170 m | 19.6 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 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, under a mile away.
- common mugwort2,727 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly401 obs
- American Robin318 obs
- Mallard300 obs
- garlic mustard289 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel278 obs
- red deadnettle227 obs
- Canada Goose202 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/281875220
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 5 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 5 mi
- Fort Lee · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 6 mi
- Mount Vernon · 6 mi
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