Elizabeth

Worth seeing in and around Elizabeth

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Kean University

   Public university in New Jersey, United States

   2.5 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge

   Bridge between New Jersey and New York

   3.2 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Weequahic Park

   Park in Newark, New Jersey

   4.3 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Warinanco Park

   204-acre park in Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.

   2.7 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge

   Railroad bridge connecting Elizabethport and Bayonne

   5.2 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Evergreen Cemetery

   Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey

   3.1 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Old Goethals Bridge

   (1928-2017) defunct bridge

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth

   Historic church in Elizabeth, New Jersey

   400 m · Wikipedia
9. 09
   The Mills at Jersey Gardens

   Indoor outlet mall in Elizabeth, New Jersey

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Belcher–Ogden Mansion

    Historic house in Elizabeth, New Jersey

    200 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Elizabeth

Airports

Newark Liberty (EWR), 4 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 31 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 36 km

Stations

Newark Liberty International Airport, 4.8 km · AirTrain Newark, 4.4 km · Linden Airport, 5.9 km · Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal, 5.4 km · Howland Hook Marine Terminal, 3.4 km

• Philadelphia → Elizabeth

  113 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · $10–14
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• Hartford → Elizabeth

  177 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · $17–23
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• Albany → Elizabeth

  224 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · $20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Elizabeth

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Elizabeth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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