Palisades Parks Conservancy website

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.

Who We Are

"Along the Cliff Top" (Photo Album)    "Along the Riverfront" (Photo Album)    "Programs and Events in the Park" (Photo Album)    "Historic Images of the Palisades" (Photo Album)

Open/Closed in the NJ Section

Did you know…?

Children’s Programs in August
    Photo: Anthony G. Taranto Jr.    Photo: Anthony G. Taranto Jr.    "Camp Palisades" day camp flyer (.pdf file)

“…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
    Photo: Anthony G. Taranto Jr.    "Baking Symposium" flyer and registration form (2 pages, .pdf file)

State Line Fall Hawk Watch
   
Volunteer training workshops: Sat., Aug 28 & Sun., Sep. 5

    Photo: Anthony G. Taranto Jr.

…Lots More…

Recently in the NJ Section...

SPOTTED JOE-PYE WEED  (Eupatorium maculatum). Photo: Ken Habermann.    NEW YORK IRONWEED  (Vernonia noveboracensis). Photo: Ken Habermann.    SWAMP MILKWEED (Asclepias incarnata). Photo: Ken Habermann.
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.)

 

Open/Closed in the NJ Section
as of Friday, July 30, 2010
subject to change without notice

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 am4:30 pm; Fri., Sat. & Sun., 9 am5:30 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, 125 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.

Womens Federation Monument: Open daylight hours (trail access only).

 Picnic Areas Open daylight hours; $5 parking fee in effect.
 Trails Open daylight hours.

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 (4 pages, .pdf file)
2010 Area Information & Fee Schedule (.pdf file, 4 pages)

PIP-NJ Calendar of Events ("poster" style, .pdf file)
Calendar of Events poster (.pdf file).

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Did you know…?

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.

Current issue of "Cliff Notes" (.pdf file, 2 pages)
Click here to download the print version of the current issue of Cliff Notes
(2 pages, includes upcoming events, .pdf file).

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).

    "The Rider's Companion"

…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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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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Palisades Interstate Park Commission