High Point
High Point rises to 551 m in New Jersey. Sunrise Mountain stands 500 m to the south-southwest, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is High Point Monument, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97) passes 4.2 miles off.
The story
High Point is a mountain peak within High Point State Park on the border of Wantage Township and Montague Township, Sussex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located in the portion of the state known as the Skylands, it is the highest elevation in the state, with a peak elevation of 1,803 feet (550 m). The closest city is Port Jervis, New York, which lies to the northwest. Besides being the highest peak in New Jersey, High Point is also the highest peak of the Kittatinny Mountains. Three states – New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania – can be seen from the summit. At the peak is the High Point Monument, a 220-foot (67 m) obelisk, built in 1930 as a war memorial.
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Wikidata Q1587207, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 551 m
How to reach it
- 4.2 mi off the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97)
- 10.8 mi off the Western Highlands Scenic Byway, National
- 21.8 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Park Avenue Observatory · 4 mi
- Lifting Rocks Overlook · 8 mi
- Pinwheel Vista · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Tri-States Playground: 2.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 3.3 mi
- Skinners Park: 3.4 mi
- Airport Park: 3.4 mi
- Riverside Park: 3.7 mi
- 799': 3.6 mi
- Point Peter: 4.4 mi
- Rutan Hill: 5.2 mi
- Mount McMitchell: 5.7 mi
- Pine Hill: 6.1 mi
- High Point Monument: 0.0 mi
- Indian Raid: 2.9 mi
- Tri-State Monument: 3.0 mi
- Erie Roundhouse: 4.2 mi
- Millville Historic District: 6.1 mi
- High Point Beach: 0.5 mi
- West End Beach: 4.5 mi
- Stone Beach: 5.8 mi
- Lake Wallkill Beach: 8.6 mi
- LakemPanoranma Beach: 8.9 mi
- Laurel Hill Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Janet Van Gelder Wildlife Sanctuary: 10.2 mi
- Hunter Farm Preserve: 10.4 mi
- Pochuck Mountain Sanctuary: 10.5 mi
- State Game Lands Number 209: 11.4 mi
- Japanese Sika Deer: 7.9 mi
- Cliff Jump: 12.0 mi
- Sprayground: 12.1 mi
- Fishing Village: 12.1 mi
- Hide Tide Wavepool: 12.1 mi
- Hackers Falls: 9.3 mi
- Raymondskil Falls: 9.7 mi
- Fish Cabin Falls: 11.3 mi
- Silverthread Falls: 13.3 mi
- Dingmans Falls: 13.5 mi
- Erie Depot Museum: 3.9 mi
- Port Jervis Fire Department Museum: 4.2 mi
- Port Jervis Fireman Museum: 4.3 mi
- Minisink Heritage Museum: 4.9 mi
- The Columns Museum of the Pike County Historical Society: 7.2 mi
- Founder's Park: 13.4 mi
- The Meditation Garden: 14.2 mi
- The Smith-Harker Community Garden: 15.0 mi
- New York City: 18.5 mi
- Midtown: 18.5 mi
- Greenville Text Stop Eastbound: 3.7 mi
- Pike Welcome Center: 3.7 mi
- Greenville Text Stop Westbound: 3.8 mi
- Middletown Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- Wallkill Rest Area: 21.8 mi
- Buffalo Statue: 7.8 mi
- Glass Tentacles: 13.1 mi
- Wine and Design Warwick: 15.9 mi
- Power Teach: 24.5 mi
- Artesian Spring: 6.8 mi
- Rail-Trail Spring: 14.0 mi
- Fountain of Youth: 24.1 mi
- The Cliff: 8.6 mi
- steep bluff: 10.5 mi
- Pike Rock: 18.8 mi
- Conashaugh: 10.3 mi
- Eshback: 17.5 mi
- Monksville: 23.2 mi
- Toms Creek Recreation Site: 20.3 mi
- Pecks Pond Picnic Area: 21.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.7 miles of High Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Mountain | SSW 203° | 500 m | 7.7 mi |
| Bald Hill | W 275° | 468 m | 15.2 mi |
| Bald Hill | WNW 292° | 464 m | 15.6 mi |
| Little Bald Hill | W 259° | 461 m | 17.0 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mountain | SW 219° | 454 m | 16.8 mi |
| Taylor Mountain | ESE 116° | 454 m | 17.7 mi |
| Wawayanda Mountain | SE 129° | 448 m | 13.6 mi |
| Tarburner Ridge | W 279° | 447 m | 14.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:34 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:54 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 31 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sussex 8 NNW, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357723245
Day trips start here
- Sussex County · 9 mi
- Skylands · 19 mi
- Lake Hopatcong · 26 mi
- Passaic County · 28 mi
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