Willis Park
Willis Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Columbus Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 2.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 6.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 21.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Columbus Park: 0.7 mi
- Handball Courts: 0.7 mi
- Lindbergh Field: 0.9 mi
- Inwood Terrace Park: 1.1 mi
- Whitey Lang Park: 1.2 mi
- September 11 Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Bergen County 911 Monument: 1.9 mi
- Battery 1: 2.2 mi
- Battery 2: 2.3 mi
- Magazine: 2.3 mi
- Leonia Library Reading Garden: 1.7 mi
- Riverside Valley Community Garden: 2.9 mi
- Pollinator Meadow: 2.9 mi
- Maggie's Garden: 3.2 mi
- Mo' Pals: 3.2 mi
- Palisades: 2.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.5 mi
- Palisades: 4.8 mi
- Palisades: 5.1 mi
- Palisades: 7.1 mi
- Hazard Beach: 2.6 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 4.2 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.3 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 4.5 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 4.8 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 2.8 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.8 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 5.0 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.5 mi
- 1-E Landfill: 7.5 mi
- Welcome to Harlem: 2.9 mi
- Portrait of t.: 2.9 mi
- Our Gates: 2.9 mi
- Rolling Benches: 3.0 mi
- Rolling Benches: 3.0 mi
- Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park: 3.1 mi
- USS Ling: 3.2 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 3.3 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 3.4 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 3.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 3.6 mi
- Great Hill: 4.0 mi
- Mount Morris: 4.2 mi
- Long Hill: 4.2 mi
- Summit Rock: 4.5 mi
- The Backyard: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.2 mi
- Street Seats: 7.0 mi
- Picnic and Grill: 7.6 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.6 mi
- The Loch: 4.1 mi
- The Falls: 9.2 mi
- Great Falls: 10.5 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 12.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 1.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 9.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.5 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.8 mi
- New City Village: 23.7 mi
- Monksville: 24.8 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.1 mi
- Boiling Spring: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Willis Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 312° | 268 m | 13.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 311° | 260 m | 14.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 310° | 230 m | 13.2 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 326° | 224 m | 17.9 mi |
| LeGrande Hill | NW 315° | 219 m | 18.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNE 16° | 208 m | 14.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 309° | 185 m | 15.0 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 309° | 180 m | 14.7 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, 3 mi away.
- common milkweed182 obs
- black-eyed Susan156 obs
- groundsel tree149 obs
- swamp rose mallow123 obs
- spotted knapweed120 obs
- smooth sumac114 obs
- common evening-primrose114 obs
- Bull Thistle101 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 way/41915294
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 2 mi
- Englewood · 4 mi
- Hackensack · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 4 mi
- Teaneck · 4 mi
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