Woodland Park, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodland 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 Woodland 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 Woodland Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodland Park — the short answer
Woodland Park, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 7a is Woodland Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodland Park's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodland Park
Each reading below is measured for Woodland Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodland Park runs about 224 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
MeasuredWoodland Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Woodland Park is in
Woodland Park sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodland Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Passaic County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Woodland Park
Every plant below cleared Woodland Park's own zone 7a and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodland Park?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Woodland Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Woodland Park, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodland Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodland Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MHM RESTORATION LLCBrownfields · 500 ft
- THE BANK OF NEW YORKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- WOODLAND PARK AUTO REPAIR INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- WEST PATERSON BORO STPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WEST PATERSON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RIVERVIEW PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BONDED INSULATION PRODUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FUEL GUYS LLC T/A GAS DEPOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CORE TRANSPORTBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- SRW PRINTINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CENTURY SHOWER DOOR INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodland 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 Woodland Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodland Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodland Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodland Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodland Park — Superfund (157 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (443 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Woodland 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 Woodland Park average
Your land is one point inside Woodland Park
Everything above resolves to Woodland Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Woodland Park Average
Woodland Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Woodland Park
- ●One soil character for all of Woodland Park
- ●Frost dates read at Woodland Park's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodland Park's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodland Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodland Park, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodland Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodland Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodland Park average
How we know this about Woodland 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 Woodland 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 Woodland Park
When does frost risk typically end in Woodland Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland Park typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Woodland Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland Park typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodland Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodland Park sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 27, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodland Park?
The federal record around Woodland Park runs heavier than most — 6,472 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (4,165), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Woodland Park?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodland Park's scale — its 7a band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodland 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 Woodland Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Woodland Park's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,882 acres it covers and 6,472 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodland Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodland Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 10 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 6,472 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodland Park, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodland Park's boundary and the 1,882 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Woodland Park sits in the Northern Piedmont — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Woodland Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodland Park's 1,882 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Passaic County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Passaic 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 Passaic County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodland Park's 1,882 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodland 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 1,882 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Woodland Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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