Cougar

Cougar is in West Orange Township, Essex County, New Jersey. Cougar is situated nearby to the grassland Jaguar, as well as near Big Cat Country.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Turtle Back Zoo and Seton Hall University.

Turtle Back Zoo

Zoo

Photo: Davidng913, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Turtle Back Zoo is a zoo in West Orange, New Jersey. Situated on 20 acres in the South Mountain Reservation, it is part of the South Mountain Recreation Complex, which is managed as part of the Essex County Park System, the oldest county park system in the United States. Turtle Back Zoo is situated 590 feet west of Cougar.

Seton Hall University

University

Seton Hall University is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall University is situated 2½ miles southeast of Cougar.

Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Hospital

Photo: SCBY, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, formerly Saint Barnabas Medical Center, is a 597-bed non-profit major teaching hospital located in Livingston, New Jersey. Saint Barnabas Medical Center is situated 1½ miles west of Cougar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Oranges and Maplewood.

The Oranges

The Oranges are a group of four municipalities in Essex County, New Jersey, all of which have the word Orange in their name. The four municipalities are Orange, East Orange, South Orange and West Orange.

Maplewood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Maplewood is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is an inner-ring suburban bedroom community of New York City in the New York metropolitan area.

Orange

Town

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

The City of Orange is a township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 34,447, an increase of 4,313 from the 2010 census count of 30,134, which in turn reflected a decline of 2,734 from the 32,868 counted in the 2000 census. Orange is situated 2½ miles east of Cougar.

Cougar

Type: Rock
Categories: tourist attraction and landform
Location: West Orange Township, Essex County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.76729° or 40° 46′ 2″ north

Longitude

-74.27863° or 74° 16′ 43″ west

Open location code

87G7QP8C+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 259733306

OpenStreetMap feature

attraction=animal

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bare_rock

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