Park · New Jersey
Charles Day Park
Charles Day Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 18 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Pond Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 7.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 18 m
How to reach it
Coordinates40.57316, -74.46765
- 7.7 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 25.7 mi off the Warren Heritage Scenic Byway
- 26.5 mi off the Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway
- 28.2 mi off the Delaware River Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook - Delaware River · 28 mi
- Goat Hill Overlook · 29 mi
- Old Mill Overlook · 29 mi
- South Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Pond Park: 0.5 mi
- Pond Park Gazebo: 0.5 mi
- Gavornick Pick: 0.7 mi
- Quibbletown Park: 0.9 mi
- Columbus Park: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
- Veterans War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 1.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Memorial Cannon 02: 3.1 mi
- Battle of Bound Brook Monument: 3.1 mi
Museums
- Abraham Staats House: 3.2 mi
- Drake House Museum: 3.4 mi
- Metlar-Bodine House Museum: 4.2 mi
- Van Horne House: 4.5 mi
- Eagles Nest Museum: 4.5 mi
Artworks
- Life Forms: 3.4 mi
- Quaternion I: 3.4 mi
- Signal: 3.4 mi
- Quaternion II: 3.4 mi
- Split and Twisted: 3.5 mi
Gardens
- Shakespeare Garden: 3.7 mi
- Resurrection Garden: 6.0 mi
- Highland Park Good Earth Garden: 6.2 mi
- Courtyard: 6.6 mi
- Perennial Garden: 6.9 mi
Nature reserves
- Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve: 4.1 mi
- George Dealaman Nature Trail and Pond: 4.2 mi
- Stransky Nature Trails: 4.3 mi
- Washington Valley Park West: 5.6 mi
- Fanwood Nature Center: 5.9 mi
Peaks
- Second Watchung Mountain: 4.8 mi
- First Watchung Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Long Hill: 8.8 mi
- Bunker Hill: 10.8 mi
- Tenmile Run Mountain: 12.3 mi
Attractions: 42
- East Jersey Olde Towne Village: 4.1 mi
- Monster Mini Golf: 6.0 mi
- Devil's Tree: 7.2 mi
- Sayre & Fisher Brick Water Tower: 9.1 mi
- Sayre & Fisher Reading Room: 9.2 mi
Beaches: 28
- Robinsons Beach: 13.2 mi
- Krogh Beach: 13.5 mi
- Paul's Beach: 13.5 mi
- Hooks Creek Lake Beach: 13.9 mi
- Laurence Harbor Beach: 14.1 mi
Picnic sites: 22
- Inman Park Picnic Grove: 5.6 mi
- Grove 1: 6.1 mi
- Grove 2: 6.2 mi
- Open Grove: 6.3 mi
- Grove 4: 6.3 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Hawk Hill: 14.3 mi
- little daddy Maginot: 24.0 mi
- Maginot Mountain: 24.1 mi
- Wooden Bridge: 24.2 mi
- Big Ma Maginot Drop: 24.2 mi
Waterfalls: 6
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.8 mi
- Seele: 7.3 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 15.4 mi
- Hobble Falls: 15.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 17.6 mi
Rest areas: 6
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 10.7 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 10.8 mi
- Harding Truck Rest Area: 13.2 mi
- Cushetunk Rest Area: 14.7 mi
- Molly Pitcher Service Area: 17.5 mi
Ghost towns: 3
- Raritan Landing: 4.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 8.6 mi
- Barber: 11.4 mi
Springs: 2
- Tulip Springs: 15.6 mi
- Boiling Spring: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Charles Day Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Freedom | NNW 343° | 341 m | 19.3 mi |
| Calais Mountain | NNW 340° | 334 m | 18.4 mi |
| Fox Hill | WNW 302° | 314 m | 20.9 mi |
| Watnong Mountain | N 356° | 295.7 m | 19.1 mi |
| Seward Hill | NW 324° | 289 m | 18.4 mi |
| Hell Mountain | WNW 295° | 288 m | 19.3 mi |
| Pleasant Hill | NNW 327° | 287 m | 20.6 mi |
| Randall Hill | NNW 343° | 283 m | 22.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:34 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 19:52 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:51 | 16:35 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 35 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plainfield, 4 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer35 obs
- common mugwort32 obs
- Spotted Salamander26 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel22 obs
- ground-ivy20 obs
- Japanese knotweed20 obs
- eastern poison ivy18 obs
- Blue Jay17 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357737603
Day trips start here
- Highland Park · 5 mi
- Somerset · 5 mi
- New Brunswick · 6 mi
- Piscataway · 6 mi
- Bridgewater · 7 mi
- Manville · 7 mi
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