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NEW JERSEY PARK DIRECTORY
Address: 1 Alpine Approach Road, Alpine, New Jersey 07620
Mail To: P.O. Box 155, Alpine, New Jersey 07620
Address: 1 Alpine Approach Road, Alpine, New Jersey 07620. Located in the Palisades Interstate Park Headquarters, second floor
Phone: 201-768-1360
Email: mail@njpalisades.org
Address: 1 Alpine Approach Road, Alpine, New Jersey 07620. Located in the Palisades Interstate Park Headquarters, first floor in the southern wing.
Phone: 201-768-8702
Email: court@njpalisades.org
Address: Historic Park Visitor Center, Hudson Terrace, Fort Lee NJ 07024
Phone: 201-461-1776
Email: flhp@njpalisades.org
MAINTENANCE CENTER (No Public Access)
Address: 357 US Route 9W, Alpine, NJ 07620
Phone: 201-768-2201
Address: 1 Alpine Approach Road, Alpine, New Jersey 07620. Located in the Palisades Interstate Park Headquarters, first floor in the northern wing.
Police Desk: 201-768-6001
Website: parkwaypolice.org
Address: State Line Lookout, Alpine, NJ 07620
Phone: 201-750-0465
OUR STORY
Dedicated in 1909 as the first component of the parklands administered by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey is about twelve miles long and half a mile wide, with 2,500 acres of wild Hudson River shorefront, uplands, and cliffs — just minutes from midtown Manhattan!
Quarrying to Destruction
In the 1890s, massive stone quarries used dynamite to blast the face of the Palisades. This crushed stone was used for building railroads and other projects. Something needed to change!
Preserving the Palisades
There was a real fear that the beauty of the scenery would be lost forever. So, citizens of New York and New Jersey pushed their governments to create a unique agency to protect the land.
A People's Park
For over a century, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission has preserved this irreplaceable scenery for the people of New Jersey and New York — and the rest of the world!
"No other city of the first class in the world has such a park at its threshold. The Commission has succeeded in an extraordinary degree in preserving the wonderful scenic beauty and yet make it primarily and emphatically a people’s park"
Theodore Roosevelt
"We sailed on the Hudson River and wandered about on its green banks, of which Bryant loved to sing. I liked the simple, wild grandeur of the Palisades."
Helen Keller
"Susan [B Anthony] & I might be seen these days driving in a low phaeton in the Palisades with an old white horse... we enjoyed the bracing air & the grand scenery, for there are few spots more beautiful on earth, than this part of New Jersey, on the banks of the Hudson River."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
