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Garwood

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Garwood

One place 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
    William Miller Sperry Observatory

    The William Miller Sperry Observatory, also known simply as the Sperry Observatory, is an astronomical observatory owned by Union County College and operated by Amateur Astronomers, Incorporated. The observatory is located on the property of Union County College on their Cranford, New Jersey campus.

    1.6 km · astronomical observatory in the USA · 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.

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Getting to Garwood

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 14 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 40 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 46 km
  • New York → Garwood
    28 km · quickest by road, 57 min · $2.5–3.5
  • Philadelphia → Garwood
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $10–14
  • Hartford → Garwood
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · $18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Garwood

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 Garwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHowever, there are plans to develop a ferry system that will transport passengers to and from Elizabeth to New York.

From Wikivoyage: Elizabeth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    99 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    588 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,639 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,644 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,771 km

If you know how people move in Garwood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Garwood

Garwood is 18 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.