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Meadowlands Community Garden

Meadowlands Community Garden from directly overhead

Meadowlands Community Garden is a garden in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Sheep Hill stands 276 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Imagine Garden, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 7.0 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Secaucus
Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.79291, -74.06970
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Imagine Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Snipes Park: 0.2 mi
  • Fountain Park: 0.6 mi
  • Smit Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
  • Monarch Park: 0.8 mi
Attractions
Nature reserves
Museums
Artworks
  • Welcome To Secaucus: 0.7 mi
  • Celia Cruz: 2.6 mi
  • Wave: 3.0 mi
  • American Spread Wing Eagle: 4.1 mi
  • Torch Bearers: 4.1 mi
Gardens
Historic sites
  • WTC Memorial Cove: 1.9 mi
  • AMVETS Carillon: 2.2 mi
  • Laurel Hill Park: 2.4 mi
  • NA Historical Marker - Eckhardt Farm: 2.6 mi
  • American War Memorial Plaza: 2.7 mi
Peaks
Beaches
Cliffs: 58
  • Palisades: 3.0 mi
  • Palisades: 3.7 mi
  • Palisades: 4.3 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 7.4 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 8.7 mi
Picnic sites: 35
Waterfalls: 15
  • The Loch: 5.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Great Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 10.6 mi
Rest areas: 5
Lighthouses: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 11.9 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 21.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Meadowlands Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sheep HillWNW 297°276 m19.6 mi
High MountainNNW 331°268 m14.0 mi
Turkey MountainNW 304°268 m19.2 mi
Waughaw MountainNW 306°263 m18.3 mi
Beech MountainNNW 329°260 m15.0 mi
Mount CecchinoNNW 330°230 m13.7 mi
Campgaw MountainNNW 339°224 m19.3 mi
LeGrande HillNNW 329°219 m19.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5120:32
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1815:4916:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333542536373787669574738
Precip in3.32.84.14.03.94.24.44.24.13.73.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Teterboro AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard205 obs
  • Great Egret175 obs
  • Tree Swallow164 obs
  • Ruddy Duck147 obs
  • Green-winged Teal120 obs
  • Greater Yellowlegs113 obs
  • common reed113 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird109 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1106446908

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