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Roosevelt Field

Roosevelt Field from directly overhead

Roosevelt Field is a park in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Mount Freedom stands 341 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Berzinec Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

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Coordinates40.60399, -74.28765
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Berzinec Park: 0.4 mi
  • Brennan Field: 0.5 mi
  • Salvatore M. Mione Park: 0.5 mi
  • Stein Field: 0.6 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Field: 0.6 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 1.8 mi
  • Tamaques Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 5.6 mi
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 6.5 mi
Nature reserves
  • Ernie L. Oros Preserve at Pin Oak Forest: 1.8 mi
  • Ash Brook Reservation: 3.4 mi
  • Pralls Island: 4.6 mi
  • Island of Meadows: 4.8 mi
  • Neck Creek Preserve: 4.9 mi
Historic sites
  • Garwood War Memorial: 3.2 mi
  • Woodbridge Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 3.4 mi
  • Stone Mercedes 240D: 3.5 mi
  • Pyramid Of Iselin: 3.7 mi
  • September 11 Memorial Monument: 3.8 mi
Museums
Artworks
  • Carteret Lighthouse: 4.5 mi
  • Fish: 5.1 mi
  • Light Dispelling Darkness: 5.2 mi
  • Fish: 5.3 mi
  • Grace: 5.6 mi
Attractions
Beaches
Peaks
Picnic sites: 33
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 2.3 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 7.2 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 7.2 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 7.3 mi
  • The Park: 8.8 mi
Waterfalls: 12
  • Seele: 7.5 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 17.1 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Hawk Hill: 9.4 mi
  • Palisades: 16.0 mi
  • Palisades: 18.1 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 18.2 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 18.3 mi
Rest areas: 7
Lighthouses: 7
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Tulip Springs: 10.4 mi
  • Boiling Spring: 22.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.3 miles of Roosevelt Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount FreedomNW 317°341 m22.3 mi
Calais MountainNW 314°334 m21.8 mi
Watnong MountainNNW 328°295.7 m20.1 mi
Union HillNW 325°277 m21.2 mi
Trowbridge MountainNW 322°274 m20.6 mi
Mine MountainWNW 296°251 m18.5 mi
Mount PaulWNW 301°245 m22.0 mi
Blueberry RidgeNW 313°243 m20.4 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 °F333542536272777568564638
Precip in3.73.34.44.14.24.55.34.14.24.43.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cranford, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer47 obs
  • American Bullfrog46 obs
  • Canada Goose40 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly33 obs
  • Painted Turtle32 obs
  • Pond Slider31 obs
  • common mugwort30 obs
  • groundsel tree28 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/357743825

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