Park · New Jersey
Westview Place Park
Westview Place Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 101 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 0.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 101 m
How to reach it
Coordinates40.86513, -73.96804
- 0.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 5.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Westview Place Park: 0.0 mi
- Van Fleet Park: 0.2 mi
- Coytesville Park: 0.4 mi
- Constitution Park: 0.7 mi
- Flatrock Nature Center: 0.8 mi
Beaches
- Hazard Beach: 0.9 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 1.7 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 1.9 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 2.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 2.3 mi
Historic sites
- Magazine: 1.1 mi
- Battery 4: 1.1 mi
- Battery 2: 1.2 mi
- Battery 1: 1.2 mi
- Bergen County 911 Monument: 1.4 mi
Gardens
- Leonia Library Reading Garden: 1.1 mi
- Bonnefont Cloister: 1.9 mi
- Cuxa Cloister: 1.9 mi
- Saint-Guilhem Cloister: 1.9 mi
- Trie Cloister: 1.9 mi
Museums
Artworks
- Obra1: 1.3 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 1.8 mi
- Columnade: 1.9 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 2.1 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 2.6 mi
Nature reserves
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.7 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.3 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.8 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 7.0 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 7.5 mi
Peaks
- Manhattan High Point: 1.8 mi
- Long Hill: 1.9 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.3 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 2.8 mi
- Tetards Hill: 2.8 mi
Cliffs
- Palisades: 2.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 2.7 mi
- Palisades: 4.0 mi
- The Palisades: 6.4 mi
- Palisades: 7.2 mi
Attractions
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 3.1 mi
- Joker Stairs: 3.1 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 3.1 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 3.6 mi
- USS Ling: 3.9 mi
Picnic sites: 44
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.3 mi
- The Backyard: 6.3 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 6.3 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- Street Seats: 8.0 mi
Waterfalls: 14
- The Loch: 4.9 mi
- The Falls: 6.9 mi
- Great Falls: 11.7 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 13.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 13.9 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.1 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 24.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 11.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- New City Village: 24.6 mi
- Monksville: 24.9 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Westview Place Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 301° | 268 m | 14.1 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 301° | 260 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 300° | 230 m | 13.9 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 317° | 224 m | 17.8 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 8° | 214 m | 17.9 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 26° | 211 m | 18.8 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 10° | 208 m | 12.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 300° | 185 m | 15.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Teterboro AP, 5 mi away.
- common mugwort578 obs
- Porcelain Berry280 obs
- Monarch275 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly235 obs
- common milkweed184 obs
- Italian arum159 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel148 obs
- Asian bittersweet143 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 node/357743119
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 1 mi
- Englewood · 2 mi
- Teaneck · 3 mi
- Hackensack · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 4 mi
- Bronx · 5 mi
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