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O'Brien Park

O'Brien Park from directly overhead

O'Brien Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Watnong Mountain stands 296 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Belcher Ogden Mansion, a museum 0.5 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
6 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.65677, -74.20431

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
Artworks
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 2.8 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 4.3 mi
  • Gary Lapelusa Landscaping LLC: 4.3 mi
  • Joe Holzka Community Garden: 4.6 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Peaks
  • Todt Hill: 6.1 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 6.6 mi
  • Signal Hill: 6.7 mi
  • Park Hill: 7.1 mi
  • Fox Hills: 7.3 mi
Beaches
Picnic sites: 40
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 3.7 mi
  • The Park: 5.0 mi
  • Freedom Field: 8.1 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Hemlock Falls: 7.8 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 7.9 mi
  • Seele: 10.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 12.3 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Hawk Hill: 7.8 mi
  • Palisades: 10.3 mi
  • Palisades: 12.4 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 14.1 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 14.2 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 8.2 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 21.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of O'Brien Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Watnong MountainNW 311°295.7 m20.1 mi
Sheep HillNNW 330°276 m21.0 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 306°274 m21.3 mi
TourneNW 325°273 m21.5 mi
Mine MountainWNW 282°251 m21.5 mi
Mount CecchinoN 1°230 m21.3 mi
Sugar LoafWNW 296°229 m19.1 mi
Gillespie HillWNW 299°217 m18.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5120:32
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1815:5016:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 3 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly40 obs
  • common mugwort36 obs
  • House Sparrow28 obs
  • ribwort plantain28 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel27 obs
  • white clover24 obs
  • pin oak22 obs
  • red deadnettle22 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357743792

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