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Cedar Brook Park

Cedar Brook Park from directly overhead

Cedar Brook Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 24 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Shakespeare Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
24 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.60365, -74.40927
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Shakespeare Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Highland Park Good Earth Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Butterfly garden: 7.8 mi
  • Resurrection Garden: 8.1 mi
Museums
Parks
Nature reserves
  • Fanwood Nature Center: 2.4 mi
  • Ash Brook Reservation: 3.2 mi
  • Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve: 3.3 mi
  • George Dealaman Nature Trail and Pond: 5.3 mi
  • Stransky Nature Trails: 5.6 mi
Historic sites
  • Veterans Memorial: 3.0 mi
  • Scotch Plains Christopher Columbus Monument: 3.3 mi
  • Old Mill Ruins: 4.2 mi
  • Westfield World War II Memorial: 4.4 mi
  • Westfield Vietnam War Memorial: 4.4 mi
Artworks
Attractions
Peaks
Beaches: 39
Picnic sites: 27
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 6.0 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 6.1 mi
  • Grove 4: 7.9 mi
  • Grove 1: 8.0 mi
Waterfalls: 10
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 10.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 20.6 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 20.7 mi
  • Big Ma Maginot Drop: 20.7 mi
  • Wooden Bridge: 20.8 mi
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Lighthouses: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 12.1 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 20.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.6 miles of Cedar Brook Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNNW 332°341 m18.6 mi
Calais MountainNNW 329°334 m17.8 mi
Fox HillWNW 293°314 m22.6 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 346°295.7 m17.5 mi
Seward HillNW 312°289 m18.9 mi
Hell MountainWNW 286°288 m21.5 mi
Pleasant HillNW 317°287 m20.8 mi
Randall HillNNW 334°283 m21.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3419:10
June solstice05:2819:5120:33
September equinox06:4618:2118:57
December solstice07:1915:5116:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323543546372777568564638
Precip in3.83.14.33.64.04.35.34.04.34.33.54.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plainfield, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel49 obs
  • White-tailed Deer43 obs
  • Mallard34 obs
  • American Robin27 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly23 obs
  • ground-ivy22 obs
  • eastern poison ivy22 obs
  • Great Blue Heron21 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/39680249

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