Riverside Park
Riverside Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Schooleys Mountain stands 364 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Private Resident only Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 4.6 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 24.3 mi off the Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway
- 25.1 mi off the Delaware River Scenic Byway, National
- 25.6 mi off the Warren Heritage Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook - Delaware River · 25 mi
- Goat Hill Overlook · 26 mi
- Old Mill Overlook · 26 mi
- South Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Private Resident only Park: 0.6 mi
- Wynnwood Park: 0.7 mi
- Tara Park: 1.0 mi
- Nassau Park: 1.1 mi
- Maple Avenue Park: 1.1 mi
- Abraham Staats House: 0.9 mi
- Van Horne House: 2.6 mi
- Metlar-Bodine House Museum: 3.4 mi
- Eagles Nest Museum: 3.6 mi
- Van Veghten House: 4.3 mi
- Veteran's War Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Old Stone Arch Bridge: 1.6 mi
- Battle of Bound Brook Monument: 1.7 mi
- Memorial Cannon 02: 1.7 mi
- Memorial Cannon: 1.7 mi
- Quaternion II: 2.5 mi
- Quaternion I: 2.5 mi
- Life Forms: 2.7 mi
- Split and Twisted: 2.8 mi
- Signal: 2.8 mi
- Courtyard: 3.5 mi
- Perennial Garden: 3.9 mi
- Rudolf W. van der Goot Rose Garden: 4.1 mi
- Rudolf W. van der Goot Rose Garden: 4.1 mi
- Resurrection Garden: 5.1 mi
- Six Mile Run Reservoir Site: 3.9 mi
- Washington Valley Park West: 4.9 mi
- Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve: 4.9 mi
- Stransky Nature Trails: 5.8 mi
- George Dealaman Nature Trail and Pond: 5.8 mi
- First Watchung Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Second Watchung Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Bunker Hill: 7.9 mi
- Tenmile Run Mountain: 9.2 mi
- Long Hill: 11.5 mi
- East Jersey Olde Towne Village: 2.6 mi
- Monster Mini Golf: 6.9 mi
- Devil's Tree: 7.2 mi
- Sayre & Fisher Brick Water Tower: 9.3 mi
- Sayre & Fisher Reading Room: 9.5 mi
- Paul's Beach: 14.4 mi
- Hooks Creek Lake Beach: 14.4 mi
- Robinsons Beach: 14.7 mi
- Laurence Harbor Beach: 15.0 mi
- Krogh Beach: 15.0 mi
- Inman Park Picnic Grove: 3.1 mi
- Grove 1: 5.5 mi
- Grove 2: 5.6 mi
- Open Grove: 5.7 mi
- Grove 3A: 5.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.0 mi
- Seele: 10.3 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 18.5 mi
- Hobble Falls: 18.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 18.8 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 12.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 13.0 mi
- Cushetunk Rest Area: 13.2 mi
- Harding Truck Rest Area: 15.2 mi
- Molly Pitcher Service Area: 15.3 mi
- Raritan Landing: 3.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 11.6 mi
- Barber: 13.2 mi
- Hawk Hill: 17.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Riverside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schooleys Mountain | NW 323° | 364 m | 24.8 mi |
| Mount Freedom | N 350° | 341 m | 20.9 mi |
| Calais Mountain | NNW 348° | 334 m | 19.9 mi |
| Fox Hill | NW 311° | 314 m | 20.4 mi |
| Watnong Mountain | N 2° | 295.7 m | 21.3 mi |
| Seward Hill | NNW 333° | 289 m | 19.1 mi |
| Mount Kipp | WNW 296° | 289 m | 24.1 mi |
| Hell Mountain | NW 304° | 288 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:34 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 19:52 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:51 | 16:35 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 71 | 76 | 74 | 67 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Brunswick 3 SE, 7 mi away.
- dame's rocket132 obs
- ground-ivy121 obs
- poison hemlock93 obs
- lesser celandine92 obs
- red deadnettle90 obs
- Canada Goose85 obs
- garlic mustard80 obs
- eastern poison ivy78 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/39680994
Day trips start here
- Somerset · 3 mi
- Manville · 4 mi
- Highland Park · 5 mi
- New Brunswick · 5 mi
- Somerset County · 5 mi
- Bridgewater · 6 mi
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