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Morris Plains Community Park

Morris Plains Community Park from directly overhead

Morris Plains Community Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 117 m. Morris County High Point stands 425 m to the north-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Community Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Western Highlands Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
117 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.83204, -74.46821

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Community Park: 0.1 mi
  • Morris Plains Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • Albert J. Davis Park: 0.5 mi
  • Watnong Park: 0.6 mi
  • Malaparids Park: 0.8 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • 9/11 Memorial: 0.5 mi
  • Glenbrook: 1.0 mi
  • Vail Homestead Farm: 1.4 mi
  • Hanover Township Armed Forces Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • Call of Our Country: 1.9 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
  • Grafton Park: 1.4 mi
  • Frelinghuysen Arboretum: 2.2 mi
  • Virginia O’Neil Ecology Center: 2.5 mi
  • Black Meadows Preserve: 2.9 mi
  • Black Meadows Preserve: 3.5 mi
Artworks
Gardens
  • Elliott Street Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • The Urban Farm (Grow It Green): 1.8 mi
  • Rose Garden: 2.2 mi
  • The Kellog Club: 2.9 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 3.9 mi
Attractions
  • Fosterfields Living Historical Farm: 3.0 mi
  • Fosterfields Living Historical Farm: 3.2 mi
  • Legend Rock: 5.5 mi
  • Patriotic Tank: 7.1 mi
  • 13th Hour Haunted House: 8.0 mi
Beaches: 46
Picnic sites: 28
Waterfalls: 13
  • Boonton Falls: 5.8 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 10.9 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 11.0 mi
  • Seele: 11.9 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Eagle Cliff: 10.2 mi
  • Hawk Hill: 10.6 mi
  • Wooden Bridge: 13.3 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 13.7 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 13.7 mi
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 6
Springs: 2
  • Boiling Spring: 5.1 mi
  • Tulip Springs: 10.7 mi
Lighthouses: 1
  • LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 24.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.9 miles of Morris Plains Community Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Morris County High PointNNW 337°425 m14.1 mi
Bowling Green MountainNNW 341°420 m12.9 mi
Green Pond MountainNNW 337°393 m10.1 mi
Copperas MountainN 1°373 m12.7 mi
Mount ArlingtonNW 305°371 m10.2 mi
Mount PaulNNW 346°368 m15.0 mi
Kanouse MountainN 9°361 m14.7 mi
Mase MountainNW 325°359 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3419:10
June solstice05:2719:5220:34
September equinox06:4618:2118:57
December solstice07:2015:5016:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506070757366534334
Precip in3.72.84.23.64.04.94.73.74.74.54.14.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boonton 1 SE, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American wintergreen76 obs
  • striped wintergreen51 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly46 obs
  • White-tailed Deer28 obs
  • garlic mustard27 obs
  • common mugwort26 obs
  • Large Milkweed Bug25 obs
  • Beech Leaf Disease25 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/357741702

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