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Washington Rock State Park is a 52-acre (0.21 km 2) scenic state park on top of the first Watchung Mountain in Green Brook, New Jersey. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. It is famous for its scenic overlook used by General George Washington in 1777 to monitor troops led by British General ...
Goat Hill Overlook is a 213-acre (0.86 km 2) scenic preserve administered as part of nearby Washington Crossing State Park. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 's Green Acres program purchased the Goat Hill Overlook property in 2009 for $4.5 million from Constructural Dynamics Inc. of Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania .
Fort Lee Historic Park is located atop a bluff of the Hudson Palisades overlooking Burdett's Landing, known as Mount Constitution, [1] in Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States. The park was conceived as early as 1952. [2] [verification needed] Native Americans appear to have lived in the area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans ...
The new amphitheater opened in October 2018 at Overlook Park. The Great Falls of Paterson – Garret Mountain is a National Natural Landmark designated in January 1967 and expanded in April 1967 to include nearby Garret Mountain .
Mount Mitchill is located in Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Standing at 266 feet (81 meters), it is the highest headland of the United States east coast south of Maine. [1] It has a panoramic view of Raritan Bay, New York City and Sandy Hook and is near the Twin Lights Lighthouse in Highlands.
The original hospital was located at the edge of the Hilltop Reservation and designated a Conservation Easement in 2001 by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; the site now is part of the Essex County park system. [1] A new hospital opened in 2006, and the site of the original hospital was converted to a park and townhomes in ...
Overpeck County Park is an 811-acre (3.28 km 2) county park in Bergen County, New Jersey, with major sections in Leonia, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park, and Teaneck, surrounding Overpeck Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River. [1] The Overpeck Creek flows to the west of the Henry Hoebel Area and the South Area of the park.
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.