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Blackbrook Park

Blackbrook Park from directly overhead

Blackbrook Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 30 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Sixteenth Street Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
30 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.68441, -74.29635
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Sixteenth Street Park: 0.2 mi
  • Ninth Street Park: 0.4 mi
  • Charles E. Vitale Jr. Park: 0.7 mi
  • Esther Egbert Park: 0.7 mi
  • Robert E. Jeans Veterans Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
  • Holocaust Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • Lamonaco Perry Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • September 11 Memorial Monument: 1.8 mi
  • September 11th Memorial: 2.1 mi
  • Garwood War Memorial: 3.1 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Millburn Community Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Reeves-Reed Arboretum: 4.0 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Habitat: 4.1 mi
Nature reserves
Artworks
Peaks
Attractions
  • African Adventure: 5.7 mi
  • Amazing Asia: 5.7 mi
  • Australian Outback: 5.8 mi
  • Animal Ambassadors: 5.8 mi
  • Big Cat Country: 5.8 mi
Beaches
Picnic sites: 35
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 4.0 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
  • The Park: 4.3 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 5.2 mi
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 5.6 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Hemlock Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Seele: 5.7 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 15.3 mi
  • Boonton Falls: 16.7 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Hawk Hill: 3.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 13.0 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 13.1 mi
  • Big Ma Maginot Drop: 13.1 mi
  • Sir Maginot Drop: 13.3 mi
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 4
Lighthouses: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 4.9 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 17.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of Blackbrook Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNW 306°341 m18.2 mi
Calais MountainWNW 302°334 m18.0 mi
Watnong MountainNW 318°295.7 m15.3 mi
Pyramid MountainNNW 345°283 m19.2 mi
Union HillNW 315°277 m16.7 mi
Sheep HillNNW 341°276 m17.2 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 311°274 m16.3 mi
TourneNNW 335°273 m17.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5120:32
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1815:5016:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333542536272777568564638
Precip in3.73.34.44.14.24.55.34.14.24.43.64.5

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

Wildlife nearby
  • common mugwort58 obs
  • multiflora rose58 obs
  • American Robin41 obs
  • White-tailed Deer41 obs
  • white clover40 obs
  • lesser celandine40 obs
  • Japanese knotweed37 obs
  • garlic mustard35 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/40164904

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