Palisades Interstate Park
New Jersey Section
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
New Jersey Headquarters:
P.O. Box 155
• Alpine, New Jersey 07620-0155
Voice: 201 768-1360
• Fax: 201 767-3842
mail@njpalisades.org
Click here for individual staff contact information.
“Home” page was last updated Friday, July 30, 2010.
“…their best wheaten bread, pies, and puddings...”
An Historic Baking Symposium with Deborah Peterson’s Pantry
Saturday, August 28 (with an optional hands-on workshop on Sunday) at Fort Lee Historic Park
State Line Fall Hawk Watch
Volunteer training workshops: Sat., Aug 28 & Sun., Sep. 5
Recently in the NJ Section...
Spotted joe-pye weed, New York ironweed, and swamp milkweed bloomed along the Palisades. (To learn more about these plants, and to see what else is in bloom this week, please click here.)
|
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. |
| Boat Basins |
Alpine Boat Basin
gas dock open Mon.–Thu., 9
am–4:30
pm; Fri., Sat. & Sun.,
9 am–5:30
pm. 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;
$5 parking fee in effect. Visitor Center open Wed.–Sun., 10 am–4:45 pm. Phone: 201 461-1776. |
| Hazard’s Dock Boat Ramp | Open daylight hours, conditions permitting. |
| Henry Hudson Drive | Open daylight hours, conditions permitting. |
| Kearney House | Open weekend and holiday afternoons, 12–5 pm. |
| Palisades Interstate Parkway (NJ Section) | Open 24 hrs., 50 mph, conditions permitting. |
| 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: 201 750-0465. Women’s Federation Monument: Open daylight hours (trail access only). |
| Picnic Areas | Open daylight hours; $5 parking fee in effect. |
| Trails | Open daylight hours. |
|
|
|
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, “Summer Job”—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.
…coming by public transportation…?
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.
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.
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
Copyright © 1998–2010
Palisades Interstate
Park Commission