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Carteret Street Park

Carteret Street Park from directly overhead

Carteret Street Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Watnong Mountain stands 296 m to the north-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Anything for Princess!, a park 0.8 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
8 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.57035, -74.24675
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Anything for Princess!: 0.8 mi
  • Boynton Park: 0.8 mi
  • Woodbridge Dog Park: 1.0 mi
  • Carteret Park: 1.1 mi
  • Alvin P. Williams Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 1.4 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 3.9 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 6.1 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 6.6 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 6.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 1.4 mi
  • Island of Meadows: 2.3 mi
  • Sharrotts Shoreline: 2.3 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 2.8 mi
  • Arden Woods: 3.0 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 1.8 mi
  • The South Pole: 5.0 mi
  • Carousel for All Children: 5.2 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 5.7 mi
  • Buck’s Hollow: 5.9 mi
Museums
Beaches
Peaks
  • Todt Hill: 7.2 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 8.4 mi
  • Signal Hill: 9.0 mi
  • Park Hill: 9.4 mi
  • Fox Hills: 9.4 mi
Picnic sites: 28
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 3.0 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
  • The Park: 10.7 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Hawk Hill: 12.1 mi
  • Palisades: 16.0 mi
  • Palisades: 18.2 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 20.1 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 20.2 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Seele: 10.6 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 15.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 15.9 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 13.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Watnong MountainNNW 326°295.7 m23.2 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 321°274 m23.8 mi
Mine MountainWNW 299°251 m21.5 mi
Blueberry RidgeNW 314°243 m23.5 mi
Sugar LoafNW 314°229 m20.7 mi
Gillespie HillNW 317°217 m20.2 mi
Mount KembleNW 313°215 m19.8 mi
Blachleys HillNW 309°204 m20.3 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
  • groundsel tree49 obs
  • American Bullfrog45 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird31 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel30 obs
  • common reed30 obs
  • common mugwort28 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly28 obs
  • Canada Goose27 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/39681777

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