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Madison Avenue Park

Madison Avenue Park from directly overhead

Madison Avenue Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Berzinec Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
11 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.61517, -74.29309
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Berzinec Park: 0.6 mi
  • Salvatore M. Mione Park: 0.6 mi
  • Milton Lake Park: 0.6 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Field: 0.7 mi
  • Roosevelt Field: 0.8 mi
Historic sites
  • Garwood War Memorial: 2.4 mi
  • September 11 Memorial Monument: 3.0 mi
  • Stone Mercedes 240D: 3.3 mi
  • Lamonaco Perry Memorial: 3.6 mi
  • Holocaust Memorial: 3.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 2.6 mi
  • Ash Brook Reservation: 3.0 mi
  • Pralls Island: 4.9 mi
  • Fanwood Nature Center: 5.2 mi
  • Neck Creek Preserve: 5.3 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 2.6 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 5.4 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 6.0 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 6.3 mi
Museums
Artworks
Attractions
Peaks
Beaches
Picnic sites: 33
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 2.5 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
  • The Park: 8.2 mi
Waterfalls: 12
  • Seele: 6.8 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 9.4 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 9.4 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 14.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 17.2 mi
Cliffs: 12
  • Hawk Hill: 8.6 mi
  • Palisades: 15.8 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 17.5 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 17.6 mi
  • Big Ma Maginot Drop: 17.6 mi
Rest areas: 7
Lighthouses: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 9.7 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 21.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.9 miles of Madison Avenue Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNW 316°341 m21.5 mi
Calais MountainNW 313°334 m21.0 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 327°295.7 m19.2 mi
Union HillNW 325°277 m20.4 mi
Sheep HillNNW 344°276 m21.8 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 321°274 m19.8 mi
TourneNNW 340°273 m21.9 mi
Mine MountainWNW 294°251 m17.9 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 °F333542536272777568564638
Precip in3.73.34.44.14.24.55.34.14.24.43.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cranford, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly31 obs
  • White-tailed Deer30 obs
  • Canada Goose25 obs
  • ground-ivy22 obs
  • American sweetgum21 obs
  • common mugwort21 obs
  • lesser celandine20 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel17 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 way/39681457

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