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Cooper Avenue Playground

Cooper Avenue Playground from directly overhead

Cooper Avenue Playground is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Pyramid Of Iselin, a historic site 0.7 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
10 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.56862, -74.31972
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Pyramid Of Iselin: 0.7 mi
  • Edison Memorial Tower: 1.1 mi
  • Middlesex County War Memorial: 2.2 mi
  • Woodbridge Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 2.5 mi
  • Freedom Plaza: 2.9 mi
Parks
Museums
Artworks
  • Light Dispelling Darkness: 2.2 mi
  • Music of Metuchen: 2.9 mi
  • Studio Theater: 5.0 mi
  • Carteret Lighthouse: 5.6 mi
  • Rev John C. Drumgoole: 6.5 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 3.2 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 4.7 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Highland Park Good Earth Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 7.5 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 3.3 mi
  • Ash Brook Reservation: 3.6 mi
  • Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve: 3.9 mi
  • Sharrotts Shoreline: 4.6 mi
  • Fanwood Nature Center: 5.8 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Peaks
Picnic sites: 27
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 5.0 mi
  • Grove 4: 7.6 mi
  • Grove 3B: 7.8 mi
  • Grove 3A: 7.8 mi
  • Open Grove: 7.9 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Seele: 8.1 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 12.5 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 19.4 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 11.9 mi
  • Palisades: 18.9 mi
  • Palisades: 20.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 21.0 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 21.1 mi
Rest areas: 7
Lighthouses: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 13.0 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 24.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Cooper Avenue Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNW 324°341 m23.1 mi
Calais MountainNW 322°334 m22.5 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 335°295.7 m21.4 mi
Union HillNNW 332°277 m22.5 mi
Trowbridge MountainNNW 329°274 m21.7 mi
Long HillNW 307°259 m22.6 mi
Mine MountainNW 305°251 m18.3 mi
Mount PaulNW 308°245 m22.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3319:09
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, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard61 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel40 obs
  • White-tailed Deer35 obs
  • American Robin28 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail28 obs
  • common mugwort28 obs
  • Double-crested Cormorant25 obs
  • eastern poison ivy24 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/357737617

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