Audubon Park, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Audubon Park, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Audubon Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Audubon Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Audubon Park — the short answer
Audubon Park, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 96 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 96 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Audubon Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Audubon Park's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Audubon Park
Each reading below is measured for Audubon Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAudubon Park runs about 251 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAudubon Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Audubon Park is in
Audubon Park sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Audubon Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Camden County.
What Grows in Audubon Park
Every plant below cleared Audubon Park's own zone 7b and its 251-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Audubon Park?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Audubon Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Audubon Park, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Audubon Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Audubon Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MT EPHRAIM BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SUNOCO GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 411 BLACK HORSE PIKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- COTTMAN TRANSMISSIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- AUDOBON TOWERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- MT EPHRAIM BOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WAWA FOOD MARKET #972Brownfields · 1400 ft
- 124 BLACK HORSE PIKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WAWAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- 071375-- MW14RNitrate · 1500 ft
- 071004-- Audubon Park MW14Nitrate · 1600 ft
- PSE&G AUDUBON DIST GAS T&DBrownfields · 1700 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Audubon Park's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Audubon Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Audubon Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Audubon Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Audubon Park, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 123 sites within ~10 miles of Audubon Park. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Audubon Park
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Audubon Park average
Your land is one point inside Audubon Park
Everything above resolves to Audubon Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 96 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Audubon Park Average
Audubon Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Audubon Park
- ●One soil character for all of Audubon Park
- ●Frost dates read at Audubon Park's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Audubon Park's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Audubon Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Audubon Park, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Audubon Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Audubon Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Audubon Park average
How we know this about Audubon Park
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Audubon Park’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Audubon Park
When does frost risk typically end in Audubon Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Audubon Park typically lands around Mar 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 10.
When is the first frost in Audubon Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Audubon Park typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Audubon Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Audubon Park sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 12, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Audubon Park?
The federal record around Audubon Park runs heavier than most — 5,870 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,923), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Audubon Park?
From about Oct 27 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Audubon Park's scale — its 7b band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Audubon Park's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Audubon Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Audubon Park's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 96 acres it covers and 5,870 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Audubon Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Audubon Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 26 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5,870 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Audubon Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Audubon Park's boundary and the 96 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Audubon Park's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Audubon Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Audubon Park's 96 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Camden County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Camden County
- The growing challenges every New Jersey grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Jersey
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Camden County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Audubon Park's 96 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Audubon Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 96 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Audubon Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New JerseyAudubon Park sits outside our named growing regions, so New Jersey as a whole is its closest context here.
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