Palisades Interstate Park
New Jersey Section
P.O. Box 155, Alpine, New Jersey 07620-0155
Voice: 201 768-1360
Fax: 201 767-3842
mail@njpalisades.org
For individual staff contact information, please go to
our Park Headquarters
(NJ)
page.
Who We Are
"Home" page was last updated on Tuesday, May 06, 2008.
Recently in the NJ Section...
Above: "Shad Bake at Mrs. Kearney's Tavern" was held on Sunday, May 4 (click here for more photos of this event). Below: Wild pink (Silene caroliniana) and jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema atrorubens) bloomed (click here to find out what other plants are in bloom along the Palisades).
Coming up in the NJ Section...
Spring Nature Walks
Wednesdays with Sandy Bonardi
23rd Annual “Hooked on the Hudson”
With the Hudson River Fishermen's Association
Saturday, May 17
“The Giant Stairs”
Guided hike with Christina Fehre, Sunday, May 18
Pre-registration required
Did you know...?
You can join our emailing list to receive regular updates on the NJ Section—click here for details.
We have selected featured stories from cliff*notes, our popular bimonthly visitor's letter, posted here, as well as the current story, "Of Times & Tides."
Your group can book our popular slide lecture, "The Unknown Palisades: a slide show through time," or one of our other informative lecture programs. Click here for details.
A Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Palisades by Nancy Slowik
and New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park by E. Emory Davis & Eric Nelsen
New Jersey residents 62 and older can obtain a free parking pass for the NJ Section—as well as for all New Jersey State Parks. All park visitors can purchase a weekday pass for the season. For more information, please click here.
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Who We Are
Located in northeastern Bergen County, New Jersey, the New Jersey Section of the Palisades Interstate Park is part of the more than 100 thousand acres of parklands and historic sites maintained by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. (For information about the parklands and historic sites maintained by the Commission in New York State, please click here.) The land in the New Jersey Section was the first that the Commission acquired after its creation in 1900 by the states of New York and New Jersey. The Commission had been formed to prevent the defacement of the famous Palisades of the Hudson by a handful of large stone quarries then in operation.
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We are pleased to be a partner in the Nature Program Cooperative (click to learn more.) |
The land in the NJ Section is...
…about 12 miles long and half-a-mile wide at its widest, with 2,500 acres of wild Hudson River shorefront and uplands, including some of the most impressive sections of the Palisades.
The Palisades have been designated a National Natural Landmark, and the Interstate Park a National Historic Landmark.
Within this land you will find...
30 miles of hiking trails (both the riverfront Hudson River Shore Trail and the cliff-top Long Path have been designated as National Historic and Recreational Trails), two public boat basins, a boat launching ramp, four riverfront picnic areas, a scenic riverside drive, a cliff-top Parkway with three scenic overlooks, a nature sanctuary, historic sites, and mile after mile of rugged woodlands and vistas just minutes from midtown Manhattan.
Thanks to the efforts of far-thinking individuals and groups from over a century ago, the Palisades today belong to all of us. These pages were created to help you and others enjoy the tall cliffs of the Hudson and all they offer.
Links to pages outside the njpalisades.org domain are provided when we think such pages will be of interest to visitors and friends of the NJ Section of the Palisades Interstate Park. We cannot verify the accuracy of information or be responsible for the quality of content displayed on pages with URLs outside the njpalisades.org domain.
Palisades
Interstate Park – NJ Section
P.O. Box 155 • Alpine, New Jersey 07620
201 768-1360 (voice) • 201 767-3842 (fax)
mail@njpalisades.org
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– 2008
Palisades Interstate
Park Commission