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Green Acres Park

Green Acres Park from directly overhead

Green Acres Park is a park in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. Watnong Mountain stands 296 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Carteret Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.66198, -74.23503

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 4.3 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 5.3 mi
  • HOV Healthy Haven at Eighteenth: 5.4 mi
  • Butterfly garden: 5.5 mi
Museums
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Stone Mercedes 240D: 1.7 mi
  • Lamonaco Perry Memorial: 2.1 mi
  • September 11 Memorial Monument: 3.5 mi
  • Holocaust Memorial: 4.3 mi
  • Garwood War Memorial: 4.6 mi
Nature reserves
Attractions
Peaks
Beaches
Picnic sites: 35
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 3.4 mi
  • The Park: 4.4 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 7.4 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 7.5 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Hawk Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Palisades: 11.5 mi
  • Palisades: 13.4 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 13.8 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 13.9 mi
Waterfalls: 13
  • Hemlock Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 6.8 mi
  • Seele: 8.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.9 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 7.1 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 20.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.1 miles of Green Acres Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Watnong MountainNW 314°295.7 m18.7 mi
Union HillNW 312°277 m20.1 mi
Sheep HillNNW 333°276 m19.9 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 308°274 m19.8 mi
TourneNNW 329°273 m20.3 mi
Turkey MountainNNW 340°268 m21.1 mi
Waughaw MountainNNW 342°263 m20.7 mi
Mine MountainWNW 282°251 m19.8 mi

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 solstice07:1815:5016:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 4 mi away.

  • common mugwort168 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel145 obs
  • White-tailed Deer122 obs
  • white snakeroot103 obs
  • ground-ivy102 obs
  • white clover95 obs
  • greater plantain90 obs
  • American sweetgum84 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/348584857

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