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Wood Park

Wood Park from directly overhead

Wood Park is a park in New Jersey, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. Buckingham Mountain stands 158 m to the north, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is 264, a park 0.5 miles away. Blue Route passes 17 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
25 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates39.99011, -74.98795

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • 264: 0.5 mi
  • Fountain Farms Park: 0.9 mi
  • Wesley Bishop Fields: 1.0 mi
  • Chief Payton I. Flournoy, Sr., Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
  • Jeff Young Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
Historic sites
  • Palmyra War Memorial: 1.9 mi
  • Pennsauken Memorial Park: 4.4 mi
  • September 11th Memorial: 4.4 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 4.5 mi
  • Bataan Death March Memorial: 5.8 mi
Nature reserves
Artworks
Gardens
Museums
Attractions
  • Top Deck Games: 7.6 mi
  • Harbison's Dairy Milk Bottle: 7.7 mi
  • Camden Children's Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Arrow Head Train & Station: 8.2 mi
  • Carousel: 8.2 mi
Peaks: 39
  • Mount Laurel: 6.3 mi
  • Hutton Hill: 8.2 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 9.2 mi
  • Fairmount: 10.4 mi
  • Mount Holly: 10.6 mi
Picnic sites: 38
  • Picnic Area A: 9.4 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 9.4 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 9.4 mi
  • Van R. Thomas Memorial Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 10.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
Springs: 3
Beaches: 2
  • Washington Lake Beach: 18.3 mi
  • First Beach: 23.0 mi
Cliffs: 2
  • Monkey Rock: 21.5 mi
  • Old Quarry: 24.8 mi
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Gold Run: 20.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buckingham MountainN 353°158 m22.7 mi
Baldpate MountainNNE 14°146 m24.3 mi
Strawberry HillNNE 12°143 m23.5 mi
Solebury MountainN 1°142 m24.0 mi
Goat HillN 6°138 m24.7 mi
Chestnut HillWNW 298°136 m13.1 mi
Jericho MountainN 5°129 m21.6 mi
Mount CanoeNNE 16°128 m24.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0418:3619:12
June solstice05:3219:5220:33
September equinox06:4818:2318:59
December solstice07:1915:5616:39

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333542536372777568564638
Precip in3.52.64.43.93.94.65.04.14.34.13.34.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pennsauken 1N, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Black Swallowtail21 obs
  • American Winter Ant20 obs
  • Eastern Black Carpenter Ant17 obs
  • Monarch16 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee15 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly14 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle12 obs
  • American Robin11 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357731979

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