Fort Lee Museum at the Judge Moore House
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Fort Lee Museum at the Judge Moore House is a museum in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 87 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Monument Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 0.5 miles off.
The story
The Fort Lee Museum is a historical museum in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Palisade Avenue within Monument Park. The museum opened in April 1999 and is operated by the Fort Lee Historical Society. The museum closed during the 2020-2022 Covid-pandemic and has not re-opened.
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Wikidata Q18150283, matched on coordinates and name (2 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 87 m
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 5.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Monument Park: 0.0 mi
- Firemen's Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Fort Lee Commons: 0.3 mi
- Constitution Park: 0.6 mi
- William Birch Park: 0.7 mi
- Battery 1: 0.2 mi
- Battery 2: 0.3 mi
- Magazine: 0.3 mi
- Battery 4: 0.3 mi
- September 11 Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Hazard Beach: 0.6 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.4 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.6 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.0 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.0 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 1.4 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 1.6 mi
- Portrait of t.: 1.6 mi
- Our Gates: 1.6 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 2.1 mi
- Leonia Library Reading Garden: 1.4 mi
- The Garden: 1.5 mi
- Maggie's Garden: 1.7 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 1.8 mi
- Mo' Pals: 1.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.6 mi
- Long Hill: 2.3 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.9 mi
- Mount Morris: 3.3 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 3.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.8 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 4.5 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 6.5 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 6.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 1.9 mi
- Palisades: 2.9 mi
- Palisades: 3.3 mi
- Palisades: 6.1 mi
- The Palisades: 7.5 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 2.1 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 2.1 mi
- Joker Stairs: 2.5 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 2.6 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 3.0 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.3 mi
- The Backyard: 5.7 mi
- Street Seats: 6.9 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.4 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- The Loch: 3.7 mi
- The Falls: 7.3 mi
- Great Falls: 12.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.6 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 24.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 3.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 11.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.1 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Fort Lee Museum at the Judge Moore House. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 305° | 268 m | 14.7 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 305° | 260 m | 15.8 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 304° | 230 m | 14.5 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 320° | 224 m | 18.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 9° | 208 m | 14.0 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 304° | 185 m | 16.3 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 304° | 180 m | 16.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 260° | 179 m | 14.6 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 | 33 | 35 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Teterboro AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/367697417
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 0 mi
- Englewood · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 3 mi
- Bronx · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 4 mi
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