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Primrose Preserve

Primrose Preserve from directly overhead

Primrose Preserve is a picnic site in New Jersey, at a modelled elevation of 95 m. Bowling Green Mountain stands 420 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Historical Marker, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Harding Land Trust
Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.73355, -74.52944
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
  • Bettin Oak Monument: 2.2 mi
  • Stark's Brigade Monument: 2.3 mi
  • Morris Aqueduct Company Vault: 2.4 mi
  • Jockey Hollow Cemetery Monument: 2.9 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Gardens
  • Cross Estate Gardens: 1.8 mi
  • Abby Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Theodore Largman Community Garden: 3.6 mi
  • The Kellog Club: 4.7 mi
  • Butterrfly Garden: 5.4 mi
Parks
Museums
  • Tunis-Ellicks House: 2.0 mi
  • The Mahan Collection: 3.4 mi
  • Macculloch Hall Historical Museum: 4.8 mi
  • The Farmstead Arts Center: 5.2 mi
  • Schuyler-Hamilton House Museum: 5.3 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 48
Beaches: 38
Picnic sites: 25
  • Mendham Overlook Area: 3.3 mi
  • Sky Top Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
  • Oak Grove Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
  • Grove Street Park: 9.2 mi
Waterfalls: 11
Cliffs: 8
  • Hawk Hill: 11.7 mi
  • Eagle Cliff: 17.7 mi
  • Wooden Bridge: 18.7 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 18.9 mi
  • Maginot Mountain: 19.0 mi
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 5
Springs: 2
  • Boiling Spring: 12.5 mi
  • Tulip Springs: 12.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of Primrose Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bowling Green MountainN 357°420 m19.0 mi
Green Pond MountainN 357°393 m16.1 mi
Allamuchy MountainNW 314°377 m19.2 mi
Upper Pohatcong MountainWNW 293°375 m18.9 mi
Mount ArlingtonNNW 338°371 m13.6 mi
Schooleys MountainWNW 296°364 m15.3 mi
Mase MountainN 350°359 m15.6 mi
Cobb HillN 11°358 m17.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3419:10
June solstice05:2819:5220:34
September equinox06:4618:2118:57
December solstice07:2015:5116:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313240526171767467554536
Precip in3.53.04.24.04.04.84.74.94.64.63.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Canoe Brook, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/2346531319

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