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Butterfly Bogs Wildlife Management Area

Butterfly Bogs Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Butterfly Bogs Wildlife Management Area is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 27 m. Crawford Hill stands 120 m to the north-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is John F Johnson Junior Memorial Park, a park 1.2 miles away. Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway passes 9.1 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
27 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.10123, -74.31042

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums: 57
Gardens: 41
Beaches: 25
Peaks: 21
Nature reserves: 20
Picnic sites: 8
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Butterfly Bogs Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Crawford HillNNE 18°120 m21.1 mi
Pine HillNNW 330°110 m10.7 mi
Telegraph HillNNE 20°106 m21.5 mi
Fairless LandfillW 278°97.2 m24.2 mi
Beacon HillNNE 13°82 m19.5 mi
Throck Morton HillNNE 34°81 m12.5 mi
Disbrows HillNW 322°79 m12.7 mi
Cranberry HillNE 37°74 m14.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3419:09
June solstice05:2919:5020:31
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1715:5216:36

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, 12 mi away.

  • great mullein28 obs
  • Eastern Fence Lizard27 obs
  • sassafras23 obs
  • Sweet Pepperbush18 obs
  • Eastern Teaberry18 obs
  • common bracken17 obs
  • Monarch15 obs
  • trailing arbutus15 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 node/357732715

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