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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 monument was built to honor war veterans, through the generosity of the Kusers. Construction began in 1928 and completed in 1930. At the top of the 220 feet (67 m) structure (the base is 34 square feet (3.2 m 2)), observers have views of the ridges of the Pocono Mountains toward the west, the Catskill Mountains to the north and the Wallkill River Valley in the southeast. [5]
High Point (New Jersey), a prominence on Kittatinny Mountain that is New Jersey's highest elevation. High Point Monument, 220-foot high obelisk veterans memorial; High Point State Park, a 15,000-acre state park in Montague Township, New Jersey
Montague Township is a township in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 3,792, [8] a decrease of 55 (−1.4%) from the 2010 census count of 3,847, [16] [17] which in turn reflected an increase of 435 (+12.7%) from the 3,412 counted in the 2000 census. [18]
The highest peak in the range is High Point at 1,803 feet (550 m), which is also the highest point in the state of New Jersey. This peak is located in High Point state park and has a road leading to the top. The second highest mountain is Sunrise Mountain, located within Stokes State Forest.
On the south side (New Jersey), it references the Tri-State Rock 72.25 feet (22.02 m) to the south. The smaller monument, the Tri-States Monument, also known as the Tri-State Rock, marks both the northwest end of the New Jersey and New York boundary and the north end of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania boundary. [20]
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
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