Park · New Jersey
Hickory Park
Hickory Park is a park in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 31 m. High Mountain stands 337 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Dumont Arboretum, a park 0.7 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 2.9 miles off.
How to reach it
Coordinates40.93257, -73.98803
- 2.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 7.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 29.2 mi off the Western Highlands Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Dumont Arboretum: 0.7 mi
- Cooper Park: 0.8 mi
- Camp Merritt Memorial Monument: 0.8 mi
- Linden Park: 1.0 mi
- Dumont Firefighters Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
- Camp Merritt Memorial Monument: 0.8 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Monument: 1.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 2.1 mi
- New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company: 2.2 mi
- Ice House: 2.4 mi
Attractions
- Tenafly Historic Railroad Station: 1.3 mi
- USS Ling: 4.5 mi
- New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad ALCO Type S-2 Locomotive: 4.8 mi
- Trevor Park: 5.0 mi
- Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park: 5.5 mi
Museums
- African Art Museum at the SMA: 2.1 mi
- Historic New Bridge Landing: 2.6 mi
- Hiram Bauvelt Wildlife Art Museum: 3.2 mi
- Bergen Museum of Art and Science: 4.3 mi
- Glyndor Gallery: 4.6 mi
Beaches
- Huylers Beach: 3.3 mi
- Canoe Beach: 3.7 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 4.0 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 4.2 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 5.0 mi
Artworks
- Obra1: 3.5 mi
- Water Music: 4.4 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 4.7 mi
- Saint Anthony Holding Baby Jesus: 5.5 mi
- Coyote: 5.6 mi
Cliffs
- Palisades: 3.7 mi
- The Palisades: 3.7 mi
- Palisades: 4.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.4 mi
- Palisades: 8.5 mi
Nature reserves
- Beechwood Park: 4.3 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 5.8 mi
- Westchester Lenoir Preserve: 6.2 mi
- North Road Park: 6.3 mi
- Pulver's Woods: 7.0 mi
Gardens
- Leonia Library Reading Garden: 4.8 mi
- Pure Love Organic Farms: 4.9 mi
- PS24 Garden: 5.0 mi
- Saint-Guilhem Cloister: 5.5 mi
- Cuxa Cloister: 5.5 mi
Peaks
- Bronx High Point: 5.0 mi
- Tetards Hill: 5.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 5.2 mi
- Inwood Hill: 5.2 mi
- Long Hill: 5.5 mi
Picnic sites: 29
- Alpine picnic area: 3.8 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
- Area B: 5.9 mi
- Area C: 5.9 mi
- The Backyard: 9.0 mi
Waterfalls: 16
- The Falls: 8.3 mi
- The Loch: 9.6 mi
- Great Falls: 10.2 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 10.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 12.8 mi
Lighthouses: 5
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 14.4 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.9 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 11.9 mi
Springs: 2
- Tulip Springs: 20.1 mi
- Boiling Spring: 24.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Monksville: 20.9 mi
- New City Village: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.9 miles of Hickory Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 310° | 337 m | 16.8 mi |
| Herman Hill | NW 318° | 328 m | 16.9 mi |
| Drag Hill | NW 315° | 323 m | 16.2 mi |
| Rocky Mountain | NW 313° | 322 m | 16.2 mi |
| Twin Hill | NW 308° | 304 m | 15.8 mi |
| Stag Hill/Houvenkopf Mountain | NW 321° | 282 m | 15.4 mi |
| Matty Price Hill | NW 312° | 279 m | 15.3 mi |
| Millstone Hill | NW 304° | 278 m | 15.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:51 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Teterboro AP, 6 mi away.
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage147 obs
- ground-ivy120 obs
- eastern black walnut115 obs
- northern spicebush115 obs
- wineberry114 obs
- Mallard110 obs
- red maple91 obs
- American Robin90 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 way/39648893
Day trips start here
- Haworth · 2 mi
- Englewood · 3 mi
- River Edge · 3 mi
- Teaneck · 3 mi
- Hackensack · 4 mi
- Bergen County · 5 mi
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