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Merrill Park

Merrill Park from directly overhead

Merrill Park 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 Prospect Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
10 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.57927, -74.30793
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Pyramid Of Iselin: 1.6 mi
  • Edison Memorial Tower: 2.0 mi
  • Woodbridge Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 2.3 mi
  • Middlesex County War Memorial: 3.2 mi
  • Freedom Plaza: 3.9 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 2.4 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 4.2 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 6.7 mi
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 7.9 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 2.5 mi
  • Ash Brook Reservation: 3.3 mi
  • Sharrotts Shoreline: 4.5 mi
  • Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve: 4.7 mi
  • Island of Meadows: 5.4 mi
Artworks
  • Light Dispelling Darkness: 3.2 mi
  • Music of Metuchen: 3.9 mi
  • Carteret Lighthouse: 5.0 mi
  • Studio Theater: 6.0 mi
  • Rev John C. Drumgoole: 6.6 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Peaks
Picnic sites: 29
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 4.1 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 7.8 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 8.1 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
  • Grove 4: 8.6 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Seele: 7.9 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 13.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 18.5 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Palisades: 17.9 mi
  • Palisades: 20.0 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 20.1 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 20.2 mi
Rest areas: 7
Lighthouses: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 12.2 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 23.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.3 miles of Merrill Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNW 322°341 m22.9 mi
Calais MountainNW 319°334 m22.3 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 333°295.7 m21.0 mi
Union HillNNW 330°277 m22.1 mi
Trowbridge MountainNNW 327°274 m21.4 mi
Long HillNW 305°259 m22.6 mi
Mine MountainWNW 302°251 m18.4 mi
Mount PaulNW 306°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
  • common mugwort25 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly20 obs
  • White-tailed Deer19 obs
  • eastern poison ivy19 obs
  • American pokeweed18 obs
  • white clover18 obs
  • House Sparrow17 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 node/357733088

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