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Sweet Brook Bluebelt

Sweet Brook Bluebelt from directly overhead

Sweet Brook Bluebelt is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Sugar Loaf stands 229 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Wegener Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 22 miles off. 55 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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What to expect

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New York City Department of Environmental Protection
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Coordinates40.55455, -74.16677
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Flag of Honor: 0.7 mi
  • First County Jail: 1.6 mi
  • Barn Foundation: 1.6 mi
  • Site of 1st County Courthouse: 1.6 mi
  • Carriage Manufactory: 1.7 mi
Museums
Beaches
Attractions
Gardens
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 3.0 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 3.0 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 5.3 mi
  • Butterfly garden: 5.5 mi
  • Compost and Community Garden: 5.5 mi
Peaks: 55
  • Todt Hill: 4.2 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Signal Hill: 6.1 mi
  • Fox Hills: 6.3 mi
  • Park Hill: 6.3 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 5.8 mi
  • Freedom Field: 11.3 mi
  • Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
  • The Park: 12.3 mi
  • Picnic Peninsula: 13.0 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Palisades: 14.6 mi
  • Hawk Hill: 14.7 mi
  • Palisades: 16.7 mi
  • Palisades: 19.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 21.3 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Fallkill Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 12.9 mi
  • Seele: 14.6 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 15.0 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 15.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sweet Brook Bluebelt. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar LoafNW 309°229 m24.6 mi
Gillespie HillNW 312°217 m24.0 mi
Mount KembleNW 308°215 m23.7 mi
Blachleys HillNW 305°204 m24.3 mi
Kinneys HillNW 315°180 m23.6 mi
Stony HillNNW 347°179 m18.2 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 337°175 m16.4 mi
Second Watchung MountainW 280°168 m20.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:31
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1715:5016:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/713493409

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