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Stanhope

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stanhope

4 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
    Cage Hill

    Cage Hill is a conical hill in Sussex County, New Jersey. The summit rises to 846 feet, overlooking the confluence of Lubbers Run and the Musconetcong River to the south, and Jefferson Lake to the north.

    3.2 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lake Musconetcong

    Lake Musconetcong is a reservoir located on the border of Morris County and Sussex County, New Jersey, and is part of Hopatcong State Park, which is administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The Musconetcong River flows through the lake.

    1.4 km · reservoir in New Jersey · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wild West City

    Wild West City is a Wild West theme park based on 1880s Dodge City, Kansas, located in Stanhope, New Jersey. Uncle Floyd Vivino recorded a jingle and often performed at the park.

    3.6 km · Theme park in Stanhope, New Jersey, US · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Plaster Mill

    The Plaster Mill is located near the intersection of Main Street and Kelly Place in the borough of Stanhope in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1977 as part of an effort to restore the building by the Musconetcong Foundrymen Historical Society and note its significance in industry.

    100 m · historic building in Stanhope, New Jersey · 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 Stanhope

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 51 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 72 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 84 km
Stations
Lake Hopatcong, 3.7 km
  • Newark → Stanhope
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · $4.5–6
  • New York → Stanhope
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · $6–8
  • Philadelphia → Stanhope
    112 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · $11–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stanhope

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 Stanhope. 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    595 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,678 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,682 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,794 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stanhope

  • Landingunincorporated community in New Jersey, United States3.7 km
  • Port Morrishuman settlement in Roxbury Township, New Jersey, United States of America2 km