Undercliff Beach

Undercliff Beach is a beach in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Palisades, a cliff 0.3 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway runs past it.
The story
beach in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
Wikidata Q49325100, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- On the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Palisades: 0.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.7 mi
- The Palisades: 4.5 mi
- Palisades: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 5.9 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 0.4 mi
- Canoe Beach: 0.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 1.1 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 1.3 mi
- Hazard Beach: 2.4 mi
- Dwight-Englewood Bulldog: 1.0 mi
- Quarter Bent Over: 1.1 mi
- Ruins of Seton Hospital: 1.3 mi
- Henry Hudson Monument: 1.3 mi
- Shorakkopoch Rock: 1.3 mi
- Inwood Hill: 1.2 mi
- Tetards Hill: 1.3 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 1.4 mi
- Long Hill: 1.6 mi
- Marble Hill: 1.8 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park: 1.2 mi
- Riverdale Park: 1.2 mi
- Churchill Nature Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Raoul Wallenberg Forest: 1.3 mi
- Flatrock Nature Center: 1.3 mi
- Obra1: 1.3 mi
- Columnade: 1.8 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 2.2 mi
- Coyote: 2.3 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 2.5 mi
- PS24 Garden: 1.5 mi
- Saint-Guilhem Cloister: 1.6 mi
- Cuxa Cloister: 1.6 mi
- Bonnefont Cloister: 1.6 mi
- Trie Cloister: 1.6 mi
- The Met Cloisters: 1.6 mi
- Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 1.7 mi
- Glyndor Gallery: 1.7 mi
- African Art Museum at the SMA: 1.9 mi
- Poe Cottage: 2.9 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 2.0 mi
- Hunt's Woods Park: 6.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 6.9 mi
- Westchester Lenoir Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 7.3 mi
- Tenafly Historic Railroad Station: 2.9 mi
- Parking: 3.2 mi
- Joker Stairs: 3.6 mi
- Birds of Prey: 4.0 mi
- Madagascar!: 4.1 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 4.4 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.6 mi
- The Backyard: 8.2 mi
- Area B: 9.2 mi
- The Falls: 5.3 mi
- The Loch: 6.4 mi
- Great Falls: 12.7 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 13.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 15.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 12.0 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 22.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 22.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.8 mi
- Cuties Island: 24.8 mi
- Monksville: 24.8 mi
- Tulip Springs: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.4 miles of Undercliff Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 294° | 268 m | 14.6 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 294° | 260 m | 15.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 292° | 230 m | 14.5 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 311° | 224 m | 17.8 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 4° | 214 m | 16.2 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 24° | 211 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 4° | 208 m | 11.2 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 293° | 185 m | 16.2 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 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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, 6 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Spuyten Duyvil Creek ent., N.Y., NY, 1 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357748456
Day trips start here
- Englewood · 2 mi
- Fort Lee · 3 mi
- Teaneck · 4 mi
- Bronx · 5 mi
- Hackensack · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 5 mi
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