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Birchwood Park

Birchwood Park from directly overhead

Birchwood Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Crawford Hill stands 120 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Lake Rivera Park, a park 1.5 miles away. Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway passes 18 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
8 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.06800, -74.14957

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
  • Boardwalk: 2.0 mi
  • Coastal Living LLC‎: 5.5 mi
  • Wave Swinger: 6.1 mi
  • Tilt-A-Whirl: 6.1 mi
  • Bumper Cars: 6.1 mi
Historic sites: 53
  • Angel in Anguish-9/11 Monument: 2.2 mi
  • R Berel Leifer's Shul: 3.7 mi
  • Stu Wagner Memorial: 5.3 mi
  • Tranquility: 5.5 mi
  • Brielle Borough Hall Monument: 5.7 mi
Museums: 42
  • Brick Township Historical Society: 3.5 mi
  • Insectropolis: 5.1 mi
  • Lakewood Historical Museum: 6.2 mi
  • The New Jersey Museum of Transportation: 6.4 mi
  • Mackenzie Museum & Library: 6.4 mi
Gardens: 29
Beaches: 25
Peaks: 17
Artworks: 15
  • Welcome to Ocean County: 7.7 mi
  • Bruce Springsteen Guitar Sculpture: 10.1 mi
  • Bradley Beach Sign: 11.8 mi
  • The Hawk: 16.4 mi
  • The Involved Student: 16.5 mi
Nature reserves: 9
Picnic sites: 5
Lighthouses: 5
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Crawford HillN 355°120 m22.5 mi
Pine HillNW 310°110 m18.1 mi
Telegraph HillN 357°106 m22.6 mi
Beacon HillN 349°82 m21.6 mi
Throck Morton HillN 353°81 m12.8 mi
Disbrows HillNW 307°79 m20.4 mi
Cranberry HillN 360°74 m13.5 mi
Lippincort HillN 5°72 m13.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2819:4920:30
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1615:5216:35

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, 9 mi away.

  • Tautog8 obs
  • Common Box Turtle7 obs
  • Monarch6 obs
  • Chinese Mantis6 obs
  • Bufflehead5 obs
  • common mugwort5 obs
  • Large Milkweed Bug5 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly5 obs

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

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/40254648

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