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Cliff Road Park

Cliff Road Park from directly overhead

Cliff Road Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Watnong Mountain stands 296 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Alvin P. Williams Memorial Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.54705, -74.25459
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Alvin P. Williams Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
  • Woodbridge Dog Park: 0.7 mi
  • Anything for Princess!: 1.1 mi
  • Parker Press Park: 1.4 mi
  • Boynton Park: 1.4 mi
Nature reserves
  • Sharrotts Shoreline: 0.9 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 2.2 mi
  • Mill Creek Bluebelt: 2.3 mi
  • Mill Creek Bluebelt: 2.4 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 2.6 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 2.1 mi
  • The South Pole: 3.4 mi
  • Carousel for All Children: 6.4 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 6.5 mi
  • Buck’s Hollow: 6.7 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 2.7 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 5.1 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 7.3 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 7.5 mi
Artworks
Beaches: 60
Peaks
  • Todt Hill: 8.2 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 9.4 mi
  • Signal Hill: 10.1 mi
  • Park Hill: 10.4 mi
  • Fox Hills: 10.4 mi
Picnic sites: 28
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 4.6 mi
  • Grove 4: 9.6 mi
  • Grove 3B: 9.7 mi
  • Grove 3A: 9.8 mi
  • Holy Trinity Picnic Site: 9.8 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 13.6 mi
  • Palisades: 17.5 mi
  • Palisades: 19.7 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 21.8 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 21.9 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Seele: 11.4 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 16.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 16.8 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 14.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.8 miles of Cliff Road Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Watnong MountainNNW 329°295.7 m24.3 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 324°274 m24.8 mi
Mine MountainWNW 303°251 m22.0 mi
Blueberry RidgeNW 317°243 m24.4 mi
Sugar LoafNW 318°229 m21.5 mi
Gillespie HillNW 321°217 m21.1 mi
Mount KembleNW 317°215 m20.6 mi
Blachleys HillNW 313°204 m21.0 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 °F323543546372777568564638
Precip in3.83.14.33.64.04.35.34.04.34.33.54.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plainfield, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • white snakeroot221 obs
  • American sweetgum56 obs
  • Fowler's Toad50 obs
  • eastern poison ivy48 obs
  • White-tailed Deer46 obs
  • groundsel tree44 obs
  • autumn olive41 obs
  • Eastern Red-backed Salamander39 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 node/357737607

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