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Worth seeing in and around Union

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
    Seton Hall University

    Seton Hall University is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States.

    5.3 km · private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kean University

    Kean University is a public university in Union, Elizabeth, Hillside, Jefferson, and Jersey City, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education and is a state-designated research university.

    3.3 km · public university in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    New Jersey's 10th congressional district

    New Jersey's 10th congressional district is an urban congressional district in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The district consists of portions of Essex, Hudson and Union counties, and includes the cities of Newark and Orange.

    2.9 km · U.S. House district for New Jersey · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations

    The School of Diplomacy and International Relations is the international affairs school of Seton Hall University, a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in collaboration with the United Nations Association of the United States of America, it was the first school of international relations to be founded after the Cold War.

    5.3 km · institution at Seton Hall University · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Paper Mill Playhouse

    Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theater containing approximately 1,200 seats located in Millburn, within Essex County, New Jersey, United States, on the banks of the Rahway River. Due to its relative proximity to Manhattan, the theater draws from the pool of actors who live in New York City.

    5.1 km · theater in Millburn, New Jersey · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Warinanco Park

    Warinanco Park is a county park in Union County, New Jersey. It is 205 acres in size.

    5 km · 204-acre park in Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Weequahic Park

    Weequahic Park is a park located in the South Ward of Newark, New Jersey, US, designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm,. The park is 311.33 acres including an 80-acre lake.

    5.1 km · park in Newark, New Jersey · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Evergreen Cemetery

    Evergreen Cemetery and Crematory is a cemetery and crematorium located at 1137 North Broad Street, Hillside, Union County, New Jersey. Parts of it are in Hillside, Elizabeth, and Newark.

    4.5 km · cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Owen T. Carroll Field

    Owen T. Carroll Field is a stadium in South Orange, New Jersey, on the campus of Seton Hall University. It is the home field of the Seton Hall Pirates baseball and men's and women's soccer teams.

    5 km · stadium in New Jersey, US · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church

    Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church is located at Stuyvesant and Chestnut avenues in Union, Union County, New Jersey, United States, near U.S. Route 22. It is the oldest church in the township.

    1 km · church building in New Jersey, 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.

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Getting to Union

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 8 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 34 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 41 km
Stations
Short Hills, 6 km
  • New York → Union
    22 km · quickest by road, 45 min · $2–3
  • Philadelphia → Union
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $11–15
  • Hartford → Union
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · $17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Union

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 Union. 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    581 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,642 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,647 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,773 km

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Around it

Next door to Union

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