New Jersey

In 2010, TPL and partners completed the purchase of more than 324 acres known as Armstrong Bog in Frankford Township, New Jersey.

Since 1985, The Trust for Public Land has partnered with agencies, communities, and donors to safeguard land, water, wildlife, to protect thousands of acres in the Barnegat Bay.

When a residential subdivision was proposed for the site in 2010, The Trust for Public Land helped purchase this former private campground on the banks of the Toms River to protect it from development.

Cooper’s Poynt Family School is a public elementary school that serves families in a predominantly low-income neighborhood in North Camden. Once a cracked asphalt lot with two basketball hoops, The Trust for Public Land worked with the school community to reinvent the barren schoolyard. Now it’s a bold play space, with colorful new equipment and porous pavement.

In 2002, TPL helped a New Jersey nonprofit acquire a 37-acre day camp to offer animal-assisted therapy for children exposed to domestic violence, emotional abuse, divorce, or drug or alcohol abuse.

In late 2001, TPL purchased 1,044 acres in Ocean County, New Jersey for an addition to Double Trouble State Park, linking it to the Crossley Preserve and the Greenwood Wildlife Management Area.

Several Morristown gardeners founded the nonprofit Grow It Green Morristown (GIGM) and created a community garden on a small vacant lot. In June 2013, The Trust for Public Land helped the town of Morristown purchase and permanently protect the garden.

What would you do if an approved development in your town threatened to overwhelm the scenic landscape of a much-loved local farm with offices, stores, and 590 residences? That’s the crisis that faced rural Andover Borough in Sussex County several years ago.

In late October 2007, TPL conserved this 19.9-acre island located in the Shrewsbury River, which drains into the Raritan Bay.

In October, 2005 TPL helped protect 35 acres that inspired Walt Whitman. The poet composed the last part of Leaves of Grass while staying at historic Indian Spring.

In April of 2001, Voorhees Township, acquired a 49-acre former asphalt plant with plans to turn the majority of the property into an expansive "great lawn" for public use. This project was TPL's first acquisition for Camden County using its Open Space Trust Fund.

In October 2004, TPL worked to purchase and preserve the land and the 12-acre lake to protect water quality and maintain the rural character of the area.

For more than 70 years, the Lighthouse Camp on the Barnegat Bay was a summer retreat for the blind and multiply-handicapped. When the camp was closed, owner Lighthouse International worked with TPL to protect the 90-acre site and to find an alternative use for the camp's 27 buildings in August 2000.

The Mendham Borough, New Jersey, open space master plan envisions a loop trail network that connects borough parklands to the Morris County trail system known as Patriots' Path.

In 2009, a 550-acre property known as Mosiers Knob, adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap, was approved for more than 200 residential units. We worked to have it protected as an addition to  the National Park Service.

Dedicated in July 2009, Newark's largest city-owned park provides recreation for a neighborhood of 19,000 people, including 7,000 children.

The Trust for Public Land is the lead partner in developing the first Newark Riverfront Park, a 7.1-acre riverfront park in the Ironbound neighborhood, where there is currently less than a half-acre of parkland per 1,000 residents.

Fewer than 50 percent of the children in Newark, the state's largest city live within walking distance of a safe park or playground. By engaging all segments of the community, The Trust for Public Land is creating a citywide network of parks and playgrounds that will provide 50,000 residents with access to badly needed outdoor recreational spaces.

We helped create a 35,000-square-foot playground for this Newark school in 2000 and in 2011, developed Quitman's smaller playground into a thriving, interactive space that promotes exercise, learning, and exploration for young students and neighborhood children.

We are working to protect the Rosemma Wetlands in New Jersey's Long Beach Township, a scenic seascape that is also a critical storm buffer and home to many species, some which are threatened or endangered in the state.

One of the last large, undeveloped tracts of land in Morris County, this property adjoins Lewis Morris County Park and Morristown National Historical Park. Its protection will enhance and expand the Patriots' Path trail system.

The Trust for Public Land partner with Congregation Ahavas Sholom, Newark's oldest operating synagogue, to transform Sussex Avenue Renew School's asphalt schoolyard into a safe and vibrant play space.

Partnering with Morris County and Kinnelon Borough, The Trust for Public Land worked to protect 178 acres along and adjacent to Untermeyer Lake in Morris County. The preservation of this property helps ensure the integrity of the New Jersey Highlands and protects an important water resource for New Jersey residents.