Highlands Air Force Station
| Highlands Air Force Station USAF transmitter call sign: "Jitney" | |
|---|---|
| Part of Air Defense Command | |
| Site information | |
| Type | General Surveillance Radar Station |
| Code | L-12: 1948 Lashup Radar Network P-9: 1949 ADC permanent network Z-9: 1963 July 31 NORAD network |
| Controlled by | United States Air Force |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 40°23′29″N 073°59′38″W / 40.39139°N 73.99389°W |
| Site history | |
| In use | 1948-1966 |
| Garrison information | |
| Past commanders | Major Weston F. Griffith (1955-1961) |
| Garrison | 646th AC&W Squadron (1948-1966), 52nd Artillery Brigade (Air Defense) (1960-1963, 1967-1973), 19th Air Defense Artillery Group (1963-1967), 608th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (1942-1945) |
Highlands Air Force Station was a military installation in Middletown Township near the borough of Highlands, New Jersey. The station provided ground-controlled interception radar coverage as part of the Lashup Radar Network and the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment network, as well as providing radar coverage for the Highlands Army Air Defense Site. The site's 240 acres (97 ha) is now the Rocky Point section in Hartshorne Woods Park of the Monmouth County Parks System.
The Navesink Military Reservation (also called the Highlands Military Reservation) was added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 October 2015.