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Shelter Cove Park

Shelter Cove Park from directly overhead

Shelter Cove Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Pine Hill stands 110 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Skyview Park, a park 1.9 miles away. Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Byway passes 23 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
1 m

How to reach it

Coordinates39.96953, -74.11538

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Skyview Park: 1.9 mi
  • Ortley Beach Recreation Area A: 2.1 mi
  • Centennial Park: 2.2 mi
  • Wanamaker Field: 2.3 mi
  • Jacobsen Park: 2.3 mi
Attractions
  • Jump Island Water Park: 2.6 mi
  • Go-Karts: 3.0 mi
  • Tilt-A-Whirl: 3.0 mi
  • The Dancing Crab: 3.6 mi
  • USS Randolph Anchor: 4.5 mi
Historic sites: 37
  • Angel in Anguish-9/11 Monument: 6.1 mi
  • Tranquility: 7.9 mi
  • Stu Wagner Memorial: 8.2 mi
  • R Berel Leifer's Shul: 10.0 mi
  • Brielle Borough Hall Monument: 10.2 mi
Museums: 36
Beaches: 23
Gardens: 22
Peaks: 13
Nature reserves: 9
Artworks: 6
  • Welcome to Ocean County: 4.5 mi
  • Bruce Springsteen Guitar Sculpture: 15.3 mi
  • Bradley Beach Sign: 16.9 mi
  • The Hawk: 22.1 mi
  • The Involved Student: 22.2 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Shelter Cove Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine HillNW 319°110 m24.2 mi
Throck Morton HillN 350°81 m19.8 mi
Cranberry HillN 355°74 m20.4 mi
Lippincort HillN 358°72 m19.8 mi
Sugar Loaf HillN 356°57 m24.1 mi
Forked River MountainSW 228°56 m12.7 mi
East MountainSW 228°55 m12.5 mi
Stone HillN 352°55 m23.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2919:4920:29
September equinox06:4518:2018:55
December solstice07:1515:5216:35

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323340506069757365544437
Precip in4.43.24.93.83.63.94.55.04.74.53.75.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Toms River, 6 mi away.

  • Great Egret76 obs
  • Osprey50 obs
  • Seaside Dragonlet49 obs
  • groundsel tree43 obs
  • common reed40 obs
  • Great Blue Heron36 obs
  • eastern redcedar32 obs
  • American holly28 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 way/40581739

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