Palisades Interstate Park
New Jersey Section
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
P.O. Box 155 • Alpine, New Jersey 07620-0155
Voice: 201 768-1360 • Fax: 201 767-3842
mail@njpalisades.orgFor individual staff contact information, please go to Park Headquarters (NJ).
"Home" page was last updated on Tuesday, July 01, 2008.
Coming up in the NJ Section...
“Sea Glass Hunt”
Children's Hiking Adventure on Sat., Jul. 12
“The Latest Techniques of Cookery & Baking”
Sunday afternoons at Fort Lee Historic Park
Recently in the NJ Section...
Field hawkweed, common milkweed, and prairie rose bloomed along the Palisades (click here to learn more about these plants and to find out what others are in bloom in the park).Did you know...?
You can sign up for our emailing list to receive updates about the NJ Section.
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.
We have selected featured stories from Cliff Notes, our bimonthly visitor's letter, posted here, as well as the current story, “Summer in a Foreign Country.”
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 Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Palisades by Nancy Slowik
& New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park by E. Emory Davis & Eric Nelsen
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.
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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