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Highlands, New Jersey Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Highlands, New Jersey from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Highlands building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Highlands, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Highlands artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Highlands. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Highlands brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Highlands, New Jersey and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Highlands map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks2
- Hartshorne Woods Park
- Waterwitch
Streets and roads86
- Memorial Parkway
- Navesink Avenue
- Grand Tour
- Portland Road
- South Peak Street
- Highland Avenue
- Laurel Drive
- Linden Avenue
- William Street
- Robin Road
- Scenic Drive
- Cedar Street
- South Second Street
- Shore Drive
- Second Street
- Mountain Street
- South Street
- Miller Street
- Marine Place
- Marina Bay Court
- Bay Avenue
- South Linden Avenue
- Bayside Drive
- Waterwitch Avenue
- Shrewsbury Avenue
- Seadrift Avenue
- Washington Avenue
- Huddy Avenue
- Ocean Boulevard
- Barberie Avenue
Show all 86 streets
- Hillside Avenue
- Prospect Street
- Valley Street
- Snug Harbor Avenue
- Valley Avenue
- Atlantic Street
- Locust Street
- North Street
- Fifth Street
- South Bay Avenue
- Fourth Street
- Bay Street
- Gravelly Point Road
- Cornwell Street
- Light House Road
- Center Street
- Central Avenue
- Ocean Avenue
- Ocean Street
- Twinlights Court
- Ralph Street
- North Peak Street
- Chestnut Street
- Mathews Street
- Beach Boulevard
- Rogers Street
- Hillside Road
- Bayview Street
- Marina Drive
- King Street
- Willow Street
- Kay Street
- Orchard Avenue
- West North Street
- South Marine Place
- Recreation Place
- Jackson Street
- Kielgart Avenue
- Oceanview Terrace
- Oceanview Avenue
- Waddell Avenue
- Marie Avenue
- Shrewsbury Terrace
- Oak Street
- East North Street
- John Street
- Woodland Street
- Osborne Street
- Twinlight Terrace
- Cheerful Place
- Cornwall Street
- Spring Street
- Thompson Street
- Twin Light Terrace
- Hilltop Terrace
- Bedle Place
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Highlands, New Jersey
Highlands is a borough of 4,621 people in Monmouth County, and it takes its name from the high bluff above Sandy Hook and Sandy Hook Bay. In 1677 Richard Hartshorne bought a 2,320-acre tract from the Native Americans, which gave him nearly all of Sandy Hook and the land then known as Portland Poynt. His family became the area's first permanent settlers.
The first hotel went up in 1796, and by 1880 hotels, beach pavilions and private clubs lined the shore while trains and steamships carried in vacationers. A drawbridge to Sandy Hook opened in 1872 at a cost of $35,000, but a schooner rammed it in 1875 and it stayed closed for three years. The New Jersey Central Railroad Company replaced it with a new bridge in 1892, and on March 22, 1900, the New Jersey Legislature made Highlands a borough, carved from Middletown Township.
“This is very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see.”
- The Twin Lights of 1862As early as 1746, colonists on Beacon Hill burned whale oil in pots to warn French ships were sailing up the harbor. A lighthouse followed in 1828, and in 1862 twin towers replaced it, the nation's first lighthouses with Fresnel lenses. In 1899 Guglielmo Marconi sent wireless reports of the America's Cup races from the site for the New York Herald. Radar tests in the north tower later made the light unneeded, and the towers are now a museum.
- Captain Huddy's last standJoshua Huddy of the Monmouth militia hunted Loyalist raiders, who once burned his house and took him prisoner, though he escaped when his neighbors caught the raiders at Black Point in Rumson. Two years later the Loyalists seized him again, let him write his will at Gravelly Point in Highlands, and hanged him for the killing of Captain Philip White, even though Huddy had been in a British prison when White was shot. A monument in Huddy Park honors him.
- Port for the rum-runnersWhen Prohibition banned liquor by 1920, Highlands became the main port for smuggling along the New Jersey shore. Its boatyards could turn out boats faster than the authorities could catch them, and the Jersey Skiff, designed and built in Highlands, carried most of the trade. The same decade made the town known for sport fishing.
- Where Gertrude Ederle swamGertrude Ederle spent summers in Highlands, where she first learned to swim at the Miller Street beach. In training she swam from Sandy Hook to the Highlands Bridge, a stretch that took her two hours and forty minutes, and in 1926 she became the first woman to cross the English Channel, earning a ticker-tape parade on Broadway. In 1975 she came back for the dedication of a Highlands park named for her.
Keep exploring New Jersey
Highlands is one of 990 New Jersey towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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Near Highlands
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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