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Mendham

Mendham Borough is a borough in southwestern Morris County, in the U.S.

Mendham
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The place

Mendham Borough is a borough in southwestern Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,981, unchanged from the 2010 census, which in turn reflected a decline of 116 (−2.3%) from the 5,097 counted in the 2000 census. Located in the Raritan Valley region within the New York metropolitan area, the North Branch of the Raritan River begins in Mendham Borough and flows in a southwest direction towards neighboring Somerset County.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mendham

3 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
    Assumption College for Sisters

    The Assumption College for Sisters is a private two-year Catholic women's college formerly located in Mendham Borough, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1953 through an affiliation with nearby Seton Hall University, Assumption is run by the Sisters of Christian Charity.

    1.2 km · private Roman Catholic women's college in Mendham Borough, New Jersey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    James B. Christie House

    The James B. Christie House is a large, flat-roofed Usonian on a wooded site in Bernardsville, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The Christie House, built in 1940, is Frank Lloyd Wright's oldest and, at 2,000 square feet, Wright's largest house in New Jersey.

    3.6 km · house in Bernardsville, NJ · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

    The Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation, located in northern New Jersey, was a major Boy Scout training facility for almost 50 years. It was named after Mortimer L. Schiff, the father of John M. Schiff.

    3.3 km · park in the United States of America · 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.

Go there

Getting to Mendham

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 37 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 61 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 70 km
  • New York → Mendham
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · $5–7
  • Philadelphia → Mendham
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · $10–14
  • Hartford → Mendham
    194 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · $19–26
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mendham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOlive is a good starting point for hitchhikers looking to go west.

From Wikivoyage: Mount Olive, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    123 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    597 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,660 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,665 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,786 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mendham

Mendham is 45 km from Staten Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brooksideunincorporated community in New Jersey3.9 km