Highlands Beach
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Highlands Beach is a beach in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the north-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Navesink Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away. Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway passes 30 miles off. 27 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
beach in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
Wikidata Q49321182, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 29.7 mi off the Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Navesink Beach: 0.3 mi
- Beach B: 0.9 mi
- Gravelly Point Beach: 1.4 mi
- Beach C: 1.5 mi
- Beach D: 2.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Hartshorne Woods Park: 0.7 mi
- Navesink River Wildlife Management Area: 1.1 mi
- Hartshorne Woods County Park: 1.2 mi
- Huddy Park: 1.3 mi
- Twin Lights Mystery Cannon: 0.6 mi
- Navesink Light Station: 0.6 mi
- Battery Lewis: 0.8 mi
- Highlands Army Air Defense Command Bunker: 1.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Sculpture: 1.8 mi
- Spermaceti Cove Life Boat Station: 0.6 mi
- Atlantic Highlands Historica: 3.3 mi
- Allen House: 6.7 mi
- Eatontown Historical Museum: 7.5 mi
- Monmouth Museum: 9.7 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Dove: 1.8 mi
- Bust of Count Basie "The Kid from Red Bank": 6.1 mi
- Middletown North Senior Mural: 6.5 mi
- Evil Clown of Middletown: 6.5 mi
- Middletown North Lion: 6.6 mi
- Seabright Beach: 2.3 mi
- Nike Missile: 2.8 mi
- Nike Missile: 2.8 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 10.6 mi
- Holmdel Horn Antenna: 11.0 mi
- Huber Woods County Park: 3.2 mi
- Bellhaven Nature Area: 6.5 mi
- Tatum Park: 8.7 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 11.4 mi
- Swinburne Island: 12.5 mi
- Rain Garden: 4.9 mi
- Parterre (Rose Garden): 8.1 mi
- Erlanger Gardens: 8.1 mi
- Lois Blonder Sculpture Garden: 8.1 mi
- Composting Demo: 8.1 mi
- Highlands of Navesink: 1.4 mi
- Garrett Hill: 5.5 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 10.4 mi
- Sugar Loaf Hill: 10.6 mi
- Crawford Hill: 11.1 mi
- Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 17.3 mi
- Linden Airport mini-park: 20.7 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 20.8 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 20.8 mi
- South Tower: 0.6 mi
- Power House: 0.6 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 0.6 mi
- North Tower: 0.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 4.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 18.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 18.5 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 18.7 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.9 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 19.0 mi
- Barber: 17.6 mi
- Palisades: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Highlands Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Todt Hill | NNW 333° | 125 m | 16.0 mi |
| Crawford Hill | W 269° | 120 m | 11.1 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | W 270° | 106 m | 10.4 mi |
| Beacon Hill | W 265° | 82 m | 13.2 mi |
| Throck Morton Hill | SW 228° | 81 m | 14.6 mi |
| Cranberry Hill | SW 226° | 74 m | 12.9 mi |
| Lippincort Hill | SW 220° | 72 m | 12.5 mi |
| Highlands of Navesink | WNW 287° | 71 m | 1.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:50 | 16:33 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 74 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 6.3 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Long Branch-oakhurst, 7 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Highlands, Route 36 bridge, NJ, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357732301
Day trips start here
- Keansburg · 9 mi
- Staten Island · 16 mi
- Old Bridge · 17 mi
- Perth Amboy · 17 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 18 mi
- Freehold · 18 mi
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