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Wegener Park

Wegener Park from directly overhead

Wegener Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 26 m. Sugar Loaf stands 229 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Laredo Avenue Parcel, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.55268, -74.17605
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Drumgoole Tot Lot: 0.3 mi
  • Park Village's: 1.1 mi
  • Ida Court Park: 1.1 mi
  • Brookfield Park: 1.2 mi
  • Owl Hollow Fields: 1.2 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Flag of Honor: 0.8 mi
  • First County Jail: 2.0 mi
  • Barn Foundation: 2.0 mi
  • Site of 1st County Courthouse: 2.0 mi
  • Carriage Manufactory: 2.1 mi
Beaches
Museums
Attractions
Gardens
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 3.0 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Butterfly garden: 5.1 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 5.5 mi
  • Compost and Community Garden: 6.0 mi
Peaks: 54
  • Todt Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 5.8 mi
  • Signal Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Fox Hills: 6.7 mi
  • Park Hill: 6.8 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 5.5 mi
  • Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
  • Freedom Field: 11.7 mi
  • The Park: 12.3 mi
  • Holy Trinity Picnic Site: 13.0 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Hawk Hill: 14.6 mi
  • Palisades: 14.9 mi
  • Palisades: 17.1 mi
  • Palisades: 20.2 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 21.3 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Fallkill Falls: 13.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Seele: 14.3 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 14.9 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 15.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar LoafNW 310°229 m24.3 mi
Gillespie HillNW 313°217 m23.7 mi
Mount KembleNW 309°215 m23.4 mi
Blachleys HillNW 306°204 m24.0 mi
Kinneys HillNW 316°180 m23.4 mi
Stony HillN 349°179 m18.3 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 339°175 m16.3 mi
Second Watchung MountainW 280°168 m19.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:32
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 °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Honey Bee133 obs
  • American Robin123 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee111 obs
  • Huron Skipper106 obs
  • Canada Goose95 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee93 obs
  • Blue Dasher91 obs
  • common reed91 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/34155898

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