Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is a great park for birdwatching, with over 200 species of birds resting and feeding there. It is situated in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It is 26 mi west of Manhattan's Times Square.Photo: Steven Reynolds, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: protected area in New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Great Swamp”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gillette station and Berkeley Heights station.
Gillette station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gillette is a station on the Gladstone Branch of the Morris & Essex Lines of NJ Transit in Long Hill Township, New Jersey. It is located at the intersection of Mountain Avenue and Jersey Avenue in the Gillette portion of Long Hill Township.
Berkeley Heights station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berkeley Heights is an active commuter railroad train station in the Township of Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey. Operated by New Jersey Transit, the station services trains on the Gladstone Branch between Hoboken and Gladstone on weekdays.
Chatham Day School
School
Chatham Day School is an independent coeducational day school located in Chatham Township, New Jersey, United States, serving students in preschool through grade eight.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Long Hill and Madison.
Long Hill
Photo: Tomwsulcer, CC0.
Long Hill Township is a township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 8,629, a decrease of 73 from the 2010 census count of 8,702, which in turn reflected a decline of 75 from the 8,777 counted in the 2000 census.
Madison
Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Madison is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 16,937, an increase of 1,092 from the 2010 census count of 15,845, which in turn reflected a drop in population of 685 from the 16,530 counted in the 2000 census.
Berkeley Heights
Town
Photo: Tomwsulcer, CC0.
Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States, on a ridge in north central New Jersey, Berkeley Heights is a commuter town of New York City, in the Raritan Valley region and also bordering both Morris and Somerset counties in the Passaic Valley region.
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Categories: National Wildlife Refuge and recreation area
- Location: Morris County, Skylands, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.7154° or 40° 42′ 55″ northLongitude
-74.4621° or 74° 27′ 44″ westElevation
233 feet (71 metres)Open location code
87G7PG8Q+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 357732986OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Hebrew—“Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge”
- Chinese: “大沼澤”
- Dutch: “Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge”
- French: “Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge”
- German: “Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge”
- Hebrew: “מקלט חיות הבר של הביצה הגדולה”
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