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Prospect Park

Prospect Park from directly overhead

Prospect Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 26 m. Calais Mountain stands 334 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Avenel Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
26 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.57992, -74.29228
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Avenel Park: 0.6 mi
  • Frank G. Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
  • Merrill Park: 0.8 mi
  • Regina Street Park: 0.9 mi
  • Bucknell Park: 1.0 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 1.6 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 5.9 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 6.5 mi
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 7.5 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 1.7 mi
  • Ash Brook Reservation: 3.9 mi
  • Sharrotts Shoreline: 3.9 mi
  • Island of Meadows: 4.6 mi
  • Lemon Creek - Sandy Brook Bluebelt: 5.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Woodbridge Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 1.9 mi
  • Pyramid Of Iselin: 2.3 mi
  • Edison Memorial Tower: 2.7 mi
  • Middlesex County War Memorial: 3.7 mi
  • 911 Memorial: 4.2 mi
Museums
Artworks
  • Light Dispelling Darkness: 3.7 mi
  • Carteret Lighthouse: 4.2 mi
  • Music of Metuchen: 4.5 mi
  • Rev John C. Drumgoole: 6.1 mi
  • Grace: 6.1 mi
Attractions
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 4.3 mi
  • The South Pole: 6.1 mi
  • Monster Mini Golf: 6.7 mi
  • Carousel for All Children: 7.2 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 8.0 mi
Beaches
Peaks
Picnic sites: 28
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 3.4 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
  • Grove 4: 9.2 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Seele: 8.4 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 11.8 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 11.8 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 13.9 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 17.7 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Palisades: 17.3 mi
  • Palisades: 19.3 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 19.9 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 19.9 mi
Rest areas: 7
Lighthouses: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 12.1 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 23.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Calais MountainNW 318°334 m22.8 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 331°295.7 m21.4 mi
Union HillNNW 328°277 m22.5 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 325°274 m21.8 mi
Long HillWNW 304°259 m23.3 mi
Mine MountainWNW 301°251 m19.1 mi
Mount PaulNW 304°245 m22.7 mi
Blueberry RidgeNW 317°243 m21.4 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, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Bullfrog45 obs
  • Canada Goose38 obs
  • White-tailed Deer36 obs
  • common mugwort32 obs
  • American Robin31 obs
  • groundsel tree31 obs
  • Monarch28 obs
  • Painted Turtle27 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/605256012

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