Skylands
Skylands is a 1,119-acre and it is open to the public year-round. The Skylands property is within the Ramapo Mountains and it is maintained by the Skylands Association.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: House
- Description: historic house and garden in Ringwood State Park, New Jersey
- Also known as: “New Jersey Botanical Garden” and “Skylands Manor”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Defiance and Hickory Mountain.
Mount Defiance
Peak
Mount Defiance is a mountain in Ringwood State Park in Passaic County, New Jersey. The peak rises to 1,040 feet. It is part of the Ramapo Mountains.
Hickory Mountain
Peak
Hickory Mountain is a mountain in Passaic County, New Jersey. The peak rises to 502 feet. It is part of the Ramapo Mountains.
Ringwood Manor
Heritage site
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ringwood Manor, located in Passaic County, New Jersey, was the site of an ironworks and home to a number of well-known ironmasters from the 1740s to the late 19th century. The current manor house was not built until 1807. Ringwood Manor is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Skylands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ringwood and Sterlington.
Ringwood
Town
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ringwood is a borough in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 11,735, a decrease of 493 from the 2010 census count of 12,228, which in turn reflected a decrease of 168 from the 12,396 counted in the 2000 census.
Sterlington
Hamlet
Sterlington, was a tiny community located in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States located between Suffern and Sloatsburg. The name was adopted when the post office opened in 1882. Sterlington is situated 3 miles northeast of Skylands.
Sloatsburg
Village
Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sloatsburg is a village in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States. Located east of Orange County, it is at the southern entrance to Harriman State Park. Sloatsburg is situated 3 miles northeast of Skylands.
Skylands
- Categories: botanical garden, historic house, building, historic site, manor estate, and residential building
- Location: Borough of Ringwood, Passaic County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.12512° or 41° 7′ 30″ northLongitude
-74.23817° or 74° 14′ 17″ westInception
1922Open location code
87H74QG6+2POpenStreetMap ID
way 257030811OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=manorWikidata ID
Q3486457
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Skylands” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Skylands”
- French: “Skylands”
- Spanish: “Casa solariega Skylands y jardin botanico del Estado”
- Spanish: “Casa solariega Skylands y jardín botánico del Estado”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skylands”. Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.