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Winding River Park

Winding River Park from directly overhead

Winding River Park is a nature reserve in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Pine Hill stands 110 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Children's Memorial Garden, a garden 0.7 miles away. Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway passes 18 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
4 m

How to reach it

Coordinates39.97473, -74.21813

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Whispering Pines Park: 1.7 mi
  • Garfinkle Park: 1.9 mi
  • Bey Lea Park: 1.9 mi
  • Manitou Park Basketball Courts & Playground: 1.9 mi
  • Mathis Veterans Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
Attractions
Museums: 37
Historic sites: 36
  • Hindenburg Disaster Memorial: 6.9 mi
  • Angel in Anguish-9/11 Monument: 8.0 mi
  • R Berel Leifer's Shul: 8.3 mi
  • Tranquility: 11.3 mi
  • Stu Wagner Memorial: 11.4 mi
Gardens: 23
Beaches: 23
Peaks: 17
  • Stony Hill: 6.6 mi
  • East Mountain: 9.5 mi
  • Forked River Mountain: 9.7 mi
  • Pine Hill: 10.0 mi
  • Taylors Mountain: 18.0 mi
Nature reserves: 10
Artworks: 7
  • Welcome to Ocean County: 1.3 mi
  • Bruce Springsteen Guitar Sculpture: 17.5 mi
  • Bradley Beach Sign: 19.1 mi
  • Bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 21.6 mi
  • The Hawk: 23.8 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Lighthouses: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine HillNNW 330°110 m20.7 mi
Throck Morton HillN 6°81 m19.2 mi
Disbrows HillNW 326°79 m22.6 mi
Cranberry HillN 10°74 m20.3 mi
Lippincort HillNNE 14°72 m20.0 mi
Sugar Loaf HillN 9°57 m24.0 mi
Forked River MountainSSW 204°56 m9.7 mi
Apple Pie HillWSW 240°56 m22.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2919:4920:30
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1615:5216:36

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323340506069757365544437
Precip in4.43.24.93.83.63.94.55.04.74.53.75.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Toms River, 2 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/931744247

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