Monument Park
Monument Park is a park in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 88 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Lee Museum at the Judge Moore House, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 0.5 miles off.
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 5.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fort Lee Commons: 0.2 mi
- Firemen's Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
- Constitution Park: 0.6 mi
- William Birch Park: 0.7 mi
- Whitney Lane Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
- Battery 1: 0.3 mi
- Battery 2: 0.3 mi
- Magazine: 0.3 mi
- Battery 4: 0.3 mi
- September 11 Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Hazard Beach: 0.6 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.4 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.6 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.0 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.0 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 1.4 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 1.6 mi
- Portrait of t.: 1.6 mi
- Our Gates: 1.6 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 2.1 mi
- Leonia Library Reading Garden: 1.4 mi
- The Garden: 1.5 mi
- Maggie's Garden: 1.8 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 1.8 mi
- Mo' Pals: 1.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.6 mi
- Long Hill: 2.2 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.9 mi
- Mount Morris: 3.4 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 3.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.8 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 4.5 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 6.5 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 6.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 1.9 mi
- Palisades: 3.0 mi
- Palisades: 3.3 mi
- Palisades: 6.1 mi
- The Palisades: 7.4 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 2.1 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 2.1 mi
- Joker Stairs: 2.5 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 2.6 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 3.1 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 3.3 mi
- The Backyard: 5.7 mi
- Street Seats: 6.9 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.3 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- The Loch: 3.8 mi
- The Falls: 7.3 mi
- Great Falls: 12.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.6 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 24.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 3.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 11.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.1 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Monument Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 305° | 268 m | 14.6 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 305° | 260 m | 15.8 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 304° | 230 m | 14.5 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 320° | 224 m | 18.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 9° | 208 m | 14.0 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 304° | 185 m | 16.3 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 304° | 180 m | 16.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 260° | 179 m | 14.6 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 | 19:50 | 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, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly440 obs
- common mugwort417 obs
- tree-of-heaven186 obs
- Asian bittersweet158 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee154 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk137 obs
- Northern Mockingbird128 obs
- Porcelain Berry128 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/217655029
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 0 mi
- Englewood · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 3 mi
- Bronx · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 4 mi
- Teaneck · 4 mi
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