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Van Fleet Park

Van Fleet Park from directly overhead

Van Fleet Park is a park in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 93 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Coytesville Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 0.3 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.86345, -73.96470

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Beaches
Historic sites
  • Magazine: 0.9 mi
  • Battery 4: 0.9 mi
  • Battery 2: 1.0 mi
  • Battery 1: 1.1 mi
  • Cabrini Boulevard: 1.5 mi
Gardens
  • Leonia Library Reading Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Bonnefont Cloister: 1.7 mi
  • Cuxa Cloister: 1.7 mi
  • Trie Cloister: 1.7 mi
  • Saint-Guilhem Cloister: 1.7 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Cliffs
Attractions
Picnic sites: 44
Waterfalls: 14
  • The Loch: 4.8 mi
  • The Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Great Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Bridal Veil Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.8 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Van Fleet Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainWNW 301°268 m14.3 mi
Beech MountainWNW 301°260 m15.4 mi
Mount CecchinoWNW 300°230 m14.1 mi
Campgaw MountainNW 317°224 m18.0 mi
Hook MountainN 8°214 m17.9 mi
Buttermilk HillNNE 25°211 m18.9 mi
Mount NeboN 9°208 m13.0 mi
Poacher PeakWNW 300°185 m15.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:32
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1815:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333542536373787669574738
Precip in3.32.84.14.03.94.24.44.24.13.73.34.1

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

  • common mugwort881 obs
  • Porcelain Berry609 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly369 obs
  • Monarch267 obs
  • Japanese honeysuckle262 obs
  • Asian bittersweet246 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel209 obs
  • Italian arum209 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/788677966

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