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Boynton Park

Boynton Park from directly overhead

Boynton Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Watnong Mountain stands 296 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Anything for Princess!, a park 0.4 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
6 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.56677, -74.26209
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Woodbridge Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 1.1 mi
  • 911 Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • Freed Slave Graveyard: 2.7 mi
  • Pyramid Of Iselin: 3.5 mi
  • Edison Memorial Tower: 4.0 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 1.3 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 4.7 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 6.2 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 6.8 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 7.4 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 1.4 mi
  • Sharrotts Shoreline: 2.3 mi
  • Island of Meadows: 3.1 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 3.2 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 3.6 mi
Attractions
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 2.5 mi
  • The South Pole: 4.8 mi
  • Carousel for All Children: 6.0 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 6.5 mi
  • Buck’s Hollow: 6.7 mi
Artworks
  • Carteret Lighthouse: 2.6 mi
  • Rev John C. Drumgoole: 4.4 mi
  • Light Dispelling Darkness: 4.5 mi
  • Vivid Chroma Locomotion: 4.9 mi
  • Girl Power: 5.0 mi
Museums
Beaches
Peaks
  • Todt Hill: 8.1 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 9.3 mi
  • Signal Hill: 9.9 mi
  • Park Hill: 10.2 mi
  • Fox Hills: 10.3 mi
Picnic sites: 28
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 3.4 mi
  • Grove 4: 9.9 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 10.0 mi
  • Grove 3B: 10.0 mi
  • Grove 3A: 10.1 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Seele: 10.2 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 15.6 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 16.6 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Hawk Hill: 12.2 mi
  • Palisades: 16.7 mi
  • Palisades: 18.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 20.5 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 20.6 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 13.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.2 miles of Boynton Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Watnong MountainNNW 328°295.7 m22.9 mi
Union HillNW 326°277 m24.1 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 323°274 m23.5 mi
Mine MountainWNW 301°251 m20.9 mi
Blueberry RidgeNW 316°243 m23.1 mi
Sugar LoafNW 316°229 m20.3 mi
Gillespie HillNW 319°217 m19.8 mi
Mount KembleNW 316°215 m19.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
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, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Bullfrog46 obs
  • groundsel tree43 obs
  • Canada Goose29 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird29 obs
  • Painted Turtle29 obs
  • White-tailed Deer29 obs
  • common mugwort29 obs
  • American Robin26 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 node/357733097

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