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Woods Playground

Woods Playground from directly overhead

Woods Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Neighborhood Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.67453, -73.92900

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions
Beaches
Nature reserves
Peaks: 51
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 7.6 mi
  • Palisades: 8.2 mi
  • Palisades: 9.8 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.9 mi
  • Palisades: 15.0 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Binnen Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.4 mi
  • The Loch: 8.5 mi
  • The Falls: 15.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Woods Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 326°268 m24.8 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 325°230 m24.6 mi
Stony HillWNW 300°179 m19.0 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 290°175 m20.0 mi
Packanack MountainNW 317°144 m24.1 mi
Riker HillWNW 294°134 m22.8 mi
Todt HillWSW 242°125 m11.0 mi
Crawford HillSW 215°120 m23.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 6 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly346 obs
  • Rock Pigeon233 obs
  • House Sparrow230 obs
  • European Starling214 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee208 obs
  • princess tree203 obs
  • American Robin188 obs
  • Mourning Dove186 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1128311519

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