Open/Closed in the NJ Section
as of
Sunday, February 07, 2010
—subject to change
without notice—
A note on winter use:
Park areas may be
closed during a significant winter weather event. When a barrier has
been put in place by the Park on any of its roadways, the roadway
beyond that barrier is to be considered closed for all use; those
going beyond such a barrier are subject to prosecution. Park areas
will be plowed and open only after the Parkway and other critical
park roads have been completely cleared and deemed safe by the
Parkway Police.
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Administration
(Park Headquarters) |
Administrative and
Court offices are open weekdays, 8:30
am–4:30
pm except
on
NJ State holidays (these days are marked in red
on our Calendar
of Events
page). Phone: 201 768-1360 (Court: 201 768-8702).
Police
Desk is staffed at all times: 201 768-6001. |
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Boat Basins |
Alpine Boat Basin
closed for winter season.
Englewood Boat Basin: Please
call J. M. Englewood Marina, LLC, for hours:
201 943-6030 / 568-1328 |
|
Fort Lee Historic Park |
Grounds open
8
am–dusk. Visitor Center
open Wed.–Sun.,
10
am–5
pm.
Phone: 201 461-1776. |
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Hazard’s
Dock Boat
Ramp |
closed for winter season. |
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Henry Hudson Drive |
Alpine Approach Road (PIP Exit
2/Park HQ to Alpine Boat Basin) open daylight hours, conditions permitting. Dyckman Hill Road (PIP Exit 1/Palisade
Ave. to Englewood
Boat Basin) open daylight hours, conditions permitting.
Henry Hudson Drive from Alpine Approach Road south to Dyckman Hill
Road
closed for winter season.
Henry Hudson Drive from
Dyckman Hill Road south to southern park entrance (including entrance road to Ross Dock)
open daylight hours, conditions permitting. |
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Kearney
House |
closed for winter season. |
|
Palisades Interstate Parkway (NJ Section) |
Open 24 hrs., 50
mph,
conditions permitting. |
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Overlooks |
Allison
Park:
Open daylight hours.
Alpine
and
Rockefeller
Lookouts open 24 hrs., conditions permitting.
State Line Lookout
grounds open daylight hours;
Lookout Inn open 9:30
am–5
pm.
Phone: 201 750-0456.
Women’s
Federation Monument:
Open daylight hours (trail access
only). |
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Picnic Areas |
Open daylight hours.
Restrooms closed for winter season
at Ross Dock, Allison Park, and at Alpine Pavilion. |
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Trails |
Open daylight hours. |
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Click
here to
sign up to receive updates on
emergency situations by email (long-term trail and road closures, fire bans, and similar
situations). |

2010 Area Information & Fee Schedule (.pdf file, 4 pages)
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We
offer staff-led
guided hikes for school and scout groups—click
for details.
You can
sign up for our emailing
list to receive updates
about the NJ Section by email.
We
post featured stories from
Cliff
Notes, our
bimonthly visitor’s letter—including the
most recent story,
“Twombly”—here
at njpalisades.org.
Your group can book our popular slide lecture,
“The
Unknown Palisades: A Slideshow through Time,”
or one of our other informative lecture programs.
Click here for details.
A New Deal for the Palisades,
a half-hour video featuring rare film footage of the Palisades from the 1930s
and 40s, is
now available
in both DVD and VHS formats (click to learn more).
…coming by public transportation…?
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Who We Are
Located in
northeastern Bergen County, New Jersey,
we are
part of the more than 100,000 acres of parklands and
historic sites managed by the
Palisades
Interstate Park Commission. (For information about the parklands and
historic sites managed by the Commission in New York State,
please click here.) The land in the
NJ 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.
Click here to visit the Palisades Parks Conservancy’s website
for more information about all the
parklands and historic sites managed by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
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, the Palisades Interstate Park a National Historic Landmark.
Both the Long Path and the Shore Trail have been designated National
Recreation Trails.
Within
this land you will find...
…
30 miles of hiking trails
…
riverfront picnic areas
…
a scenic
riverside drive
…
a cliff-top Parkway
…
scenic overlooks
…
two public boat basins
…
a
boat launching ramp
…
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 people
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.
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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
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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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Palisades Interstate
Park Commission