New Jersey

For more than 20 years, local conservationists have sought to protect the Baker Firestone property in the New Jersey Highlands.

In 2016, The Trust for Public Land protected the headwaters of Bear Swamp Creek in Burlington County. The property’s longtime owners might have built a subdivision, but were hampered by strict regulations meant to safeguard the region’s drinking water and natural character.

During its 85-year history as a Boy Scout camp, Camp Glen Gray was a
refuge of wilderness in the fast-developing Ramapo Mountains of the New
Jersey Highlands.

In 2010, TPL and the New Jersey Conservation Foundation completed efforts to preserve this property, which is named for its distinctive copper beech trees. The land is both a critical water resource in the New Jersey Highlands and provides another link in a growing network of preserved lands.

For years, Morris County conservationists targeted this 129-acre site adjacent to Dixon's Pond as a key link within more than 5,000 acres of conservation land.

In the City of Passaic, we’ve recently launched a partnership with the city’s Department of Recreation and the County of Passaic, to envision a new park along the Passaic River.

Ellinwood Forrest, an undeveloped 61-acre parcel of land along a scenic Booton Township road, was ripe for development when TPL and partners stepped in to help conserve the property in March, 2011

In 2003, TPL purchased 211 additional acres at Good Luck Point from AT&T for addition to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

The  2.03-acre Hoboken Cove parcel on the Hudson River was purchased as part of a planned 10-acre park on the border of Hoboken and Weehawken, two cities that in desperate need of outdoor recreational space following rapid and intense growth.

Surf, snow and—concrete? Sunny beaches and fresh powder are often out of reach for many city dwellers, but Newark's new Jesse Allen Park may just turn "bored" athletes into "board" athletes.

The Ironbound is a close-knit, multicultural community in Newark's East Ward, home to many families with children. The lack of play space is a problem throughout the East Ward.

In March of 2005, TPL created an addition to Lake Worth with the purchase of nine more acres. Lake Worth represents the second project completed as part of the River to Bay Greenway, and when fully restored it will be become the 20th park in the Camden County park system.

For years, the more than 1,000 students at McKinley Elementary School in Newark's Central Ward, had nothing but a virtual wasteland of asphalt for a playground. The new two-acre park that opened in 2003 includes a track, basketball court, grass playing field, swings and play equipment that is available to students and the community.

In 2002, the community organized to clean up and reclaim this park. Working with neighbors, the city, the school, and the broader community, TPL raised funds for park reconstruction and worked with students, teachers, and area residents to design a new park, which re-opened in the fall of 2005.

In 2008, TPL negotiated the purchase of 112 acres for a township park that will include athletic fields and nature trails. The building and grounds will continue to serve as a school and conference and retreat center for priests, sisters, and other visitors.

Only an hour outside of New York City, the New Jersey Highlands encompass nearly one million rugged acres of forests, lakes, and clear running streams. Stretching diagonally across northwestern New Jersey and forming a greenbelt of farmlands and forests along the burgeoning Pennsylvania- New York - New Jersey - Connecticut corridor, the Highlands are one of the region's most significant resources.

Experts in urban planning at The Trust for Public Land are rounding out a year-long study to determine which Camden neighborhoods need more parks and flood control the most We'll then work with city partners and community members to find a location and create a vision for a new park that meets both of those needs.

The 113 acres known as the Primrose Farm Estates are part of the watershed between Primrose Brook and the Passaic River-important to water quality in New Jersey's Harding Township, and beyond.

Launched in 2001, The Trust for Public Land's River to Bay Greenway program will establish a 70-mile corridor linking existing and proposed open space between the Delaware River in Camden to Barnegat Bay.

Once the site of a shale mine, 46-acre Shale Valley is now part of a larger quilt of protected public lands in the New Jersey Highlands.

For generations, residents of Voorhees Township have cherished the sight of the trotters training on this farm, which was owned by the Stafford family for more than 225 years. TPL helped assemble funding from more than half a dozen public and private sources, and protected the property in 2004.

When combined with existing wildlife management lands and Turkey Swamp Park to the northeast, this 1,443-acre acquisition created 5,400 acres of protected open space.

The densely populated communities of Weehawken and Union City will soon have a new park with a walking and running trail along the perimeter of this reservoir