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Brookside Park

Brookside Park from directly overhead

Brookside Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 42 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Memorial Park and Pool, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
42 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.64236, -74.36339
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Memorial Park and Pool: 0.0 mi
  • McGinn Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Clark Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
  • Foundation Park: 0.9 mi
  • Jerseyland Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Westfield World War II Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Westfield Vietnam War Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Westfield World War I Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Westfield 9/11 Memorial: 0.9 mi
  • Scotch Plains Christopher Columbus Monument: 1.9 mi
Gardens
  • Tamaques Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Reeves-Reed Arboretum: 5.8 mi
  • Millburn Community Garden: 6.2 mi
  • Habitat: 6.4 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Artworks
Peaks
Attractions
  • Monster Mini Golf: 9.0 mi
  • African Adventure: 9.6 mi
  • Amazing Asia: 9.6 mi
  • Australian Outback: 9.7 mi
  • Animal Ambassadors: 9.7 mi
Beaches: 45
Picnic sites: 33
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 2.5 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 6.5 mi
  • The Park: 8.8 mi
Waterfalls: 13
Cliffs: 11
  • Hawk Hill: 7.4 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 17.1 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 17.2 mi
  • Big Ma Maginot Drop: 17.2 mi
  • Wooden Bridge: 17.3 mi
Rest areas: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Lighthouses: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 8.6 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 18.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Brookside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNW 321°341 m17.7 mi
Calais MountainNW 317°334 m17.1 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 335°295.7 m15.8 mi
Seward HillWNW 301°289 m19.2 mi
Pleasant HillNW 307°287 m20.8 mi
Randall HillNW 324°283 m20.6 mi
Union HillNNW 331°277 m16.9 mi
Sheep HillN 353°276 m19.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3419:10
June solstice05:2719:5120:33
September equinox06:4618:2018:56
December solstice07:1915:5016:34

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, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer73 obs
  • American Robin64 obs
  • common mugwort49 obs
  • Japanese knotweed42 obs
  • Mallard39 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel37 obs
  • garlic mustard37 obs
  • multiflora rose36 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/35598732

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