by Sheila | Oct 6, 2009 | Essex County Playgrounds, Nutley, Outdoor Playgrounds
Maple Pl. and Vreeland Avenue, Nutley, NJ. For detailed Nutley Parks and Recs information on the web click here. So far I think I’ve enjoyed this beautiful playground in Memorial Park the most for feeding ducks. A couple of playground structures, plenty of...
by Sheila | Sep 29, 2009 | Branchburg, Outdoor Playgrounds, Somerset County Playgrounds
Another post by Sara Rall, a great contributor to this site 🙂 This is great timing since, Robyn just commented this on 9/26 as a favorite, shady playground: She says: “White Oak Park in Branchburg (Somerset County). It is located on Baird Road across from...
by Sheila | Sep 27, 2009 | Bergen County Playgrounds, Fort Lee, Outdoor Playgrounds
 Intersection of Gerome Avenue and Whiteman St., Fort Lee, NJ- Firemen’s Memorial Park is a small cute park that was busy on the day I had visited with my kids after school. It is on a nice quiet street, and you can get to it from the street as well as a...
by sararall | Sep 8, 2009 | Bridgewater, Outdoor Playgrounds, Somerset County Playgrounds
By Sara Rall- Hillside School, 844, Brown Ave., Bridgewater is yet another wonderful Bridgewater school playground. My kids’ favorite part is the slide on the way to the playground. There are actually two playgrounds here, separated by a sports field. The older,...
by sararall | Aug 25, 2009 | Hillsborough, Outdoor Playgrounds, Somerset County Playgrounds
A Sara Rall guest post: Hillsborough Municipal Playground at the west end of the municipal complex at South Branch Rd. and Beekman La., Hillsborough, Somerset Co. For the official Hillsborough Parks Website, check out this link Hillsborough has a wonderful, big, shady...
by Sheila | Aug 21, 2009 | Battery Park, NYC Playground/Attractions, Outdoor Playgrounds
North end of Battery Park City, west of River Terrace, New York, NY. Battery Park has an awesome parks system, with sprinkler parks, playgrounds galore. I’m focusing on a couple of their parks that we visited this August. Logistics- Parking, Ferries, Path,...
by sararall | Aug 17, 2009 | Chester, Morris County Playgrounds, Outdoor Playgrounds
Sara Rall guest post: Grove St. Playground in Chester is an excellent, fairly large, shady playground a few blocks south of Main St. They have a large climbing structure for older kids with two climbing walls. There are giant boulders to climb, too. For younger...
by Sheila | Aug 15, 2009 | Bergen County Playgrounds, Leonia, Outdoor Playgrounds, Uncategorized
Intersection of Broad and Fort Lee Road, Leonia, NJ. Parking is in the back of the Leonia Library (227 Fort Lee Road), you’ll see a big sign for Wood Park. Other than the park, you can play tennis, basketball, and there are picnic tables close to the big...
by sararall | Aug 13, 2009 | Bernards Twp., Outdoor Playgrounds, Somerset County Playgrounds
Corner of Liberty Corner Rd./Church St. and Somerville Rd. in Liberty Corner, Bernards Twp., Somerset Co. Guest Post by Sara Rall: Huge, new, sunny playground on the top of a hill. There is a large structure for little children with several slides, bridges, tubes...
by Sheila | Aug 10, 2009 | Essex County Playgrounds, Outdoor Playgrounds, South Orange
298 Walton Avenue, South Orange, NJ. Very close to Maplewood border. Small nice shady park, and red tubes give kids plenty of opportunity to crawl through them. A few spaces for parking and it was pretty quiet when we went. Less popular than Memorial Park in...
