Park · New York
Young Park
Young Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 17 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Noble Playground, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway runs past it.
How to reach it
Coordinates40.83984, -73.87091
- On the Bronx River Parkway
- 4.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 17.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Noble Playground: 0.2 mi
- Van Nest Memorial Square: 0.4 mi
- Saint Lawrence Triangle: 0.4 mi
- West Farms Rapids Park: 0.4 mi
- River Park: 0.4 mi
Gardens
- River Garden: 0.3 mi
- Drew Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Angie Lee-Gonzalez and Luis Gonzalez Garden: 0.8 mi
- Hornaday Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Seabury MBD Community Park: 0.9 mi
Attractions
- Jungle World: 0.4 mi
- Nature Trek: 0.5 mi
- Lions: 0.6 mi
- World of Darkness: 0.7 mi
- Somba Village: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
- Westchester Square: 1.5 mi
- 9/11: 1.5 mi
- New York Botanical Garden: 1.6 mi
- Ghost Bike: Michael Needham: 1.9 mi
- Pelham Bay Park World War Memorial: 2.7 mi
Artworks
- Bruce Lee Mural: 1.8 mi
- Renaissance Youth Center: 2.0 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 2.8 mi
- Shamrock: 3.1 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 3.3 mi
Museums
- Steere Herbarium: 1.9 mi
- Poe Cottage: 2.2 mi
- Museum of Bronx History: 2.6 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 2.6 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 2.9 mi
Nature reserves
- Pugsley Creek Park: 2.0 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.7 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 6.5 mi
- Glenwood Lake Park: 6.6 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 6.6 mi
Peaks
- Janes Hill: 2.9 mi
- Marble Hill: 3.3 mi
- Long Hill: 3.6 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 3.6 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 3.7 mi
Beaches
- Dyckman Street Beach: 3.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.9 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.7 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 4.8 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 4.9 mi
Picnic sites: 41
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.5 mi
- Street Seats: 7.4 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.8 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.4 mi
- The Backyard: 10.6 mi
Cliffs: 19
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.6 mi
- Palisades: 5.1 mi
- Palisades: 6.6 mi
- The Palisades: 8.0 mi
- Palisades: 9.2 mi
Waterfalls: 12
- The Falls: 3.7 mi
- The Loch: 5.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 13.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 13.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 13.4 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- Execution Rocks Light: 7.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 7.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.4 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 19.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 20.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.1 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 22.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Cuties Island: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of Young Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 298° | 268 m | 19.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 297° | 230 m | 19.2 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 353° | 214 m | 19.6 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 9° | 211 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 349° | 208 m | 14.7 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | NNE 16° | 180 m | 19.1 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 264° | 179 m | 19.6 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NNE 22° | 170 m | 19.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| 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, 1 mi away.
- white snakeroot1,134 obs
- lesser celandine1,064 obs
- common mugwort987 obs
- American Robin581 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel517 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly467 obs
- northern spicebush454 obs
- Mallard397 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/330304527
Day trips start here
- Bronx · 1 mi
- Fort Lee · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 5 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 5 mi
- Englewood · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 6 mi
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