Middlesex County Park System | |
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Type | Public |
Location | Middlesex County, New Jersey |
Status | Open all year |
Website | Official website |
The Middlesex County Park System is an agency that maintains over 32 parks and recreational areas, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The largest park is Thompson Park in Monroe Township and Jamesburg with 675 acres.
Park | Municipality | Visitation | Acreage |
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Donaldson Park | Highland Park | N/A | 81* |
Thomas A. Edison Park | Edison | 180 | |
Fords Park | Woodbridge | N/A | 32 |
Johnson Park | Highland Park and Piscataway | 478 | |
Joseph Medwick Park | Carteret | N/A | 86 |
Merrill Park | Woodbridge | N/A | 182 |
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park | Sayreville and South Amboy | 114 | |
Roosevelt Park | Edison | 217 | |
Spring Lake Park | South Plainfield | N/A | 127 |
Thompson Park | Monroe and Jamesburg | 675 | |
William Warren Park | Woodbridge and Perth Amboy | 126 | |
Old Bridge Waterfront Park | Old Bridge | N/A | 71 |
Alvin P. Williams Park | Woodbridge | N/A | 36 |
Davidson Mill Pond Park | South Brunswick | 499 | |
Delaware & Raritan State Park Trail [2] | N: New Brunswick S: Trenton | n/a (70 miles) | |
John A. Phillips Park | Old Bridge | 111 | |
New Brunswick Landing | New Brunswick | n/a (11 nautical miles) | |
David B. Crabiel Park | Milltown and North Brunswick | N/A | 24 |
Middlesex Greenway | Edison, Metuchen, and Woodbridge | N/A | 42 (3.5 miles) |
TOTAL | 3,081 |
Nature preserve | Municipality | Visitation | Acreage |
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Ambrose & Doty's Brooks Natural Area | Piscataway | 218 | |
Heathcote Meadows Preserve | South Brunswick | 88 | |
Ireland Brook Conservation Area | East Brunswick and South Brunswick | 520 | |
Jamesburg Park Conservation Area | East Brunswick, Helmetta, Spotswood, and Monroe | 1,436 | |
John A. Phillips Open Space Preserve | Old Bridge | 1,694 | |
Tamarack Hollow Preserve | East Brunswick | 165 | |
Thompson Park Conservation Area | Monroe | 983 | |
Scotts Corner Conservation Area | South Brunswick | 159 | |
Plainsboro Preserve | Plainsboro | 1,057 | |
Tamarack Hollow Preserve | East Brunswick | 165 | |
Pin Oak Forest | Woodbridge | 97 | |
Deep Run Preserve | Old Bridge | 850 | |
Matchaponix Forest | Monroe | 100 | |
Story Farm | Monroe | 100 | |
Van Dyke Farm | South Brunswick | 196 | |
Dismal Swamp Holdings | Edison and South Plainfield | 120 | |
TOTAL | 7,948 |
Route 18 is a 42.8-mile-long (68.9 km) state highway in the US state of New Jersey. It begins at an intersection with Route 138 in Wall Township and ends at Interstate 287 (I-287) in Piscataway. Much of the route is a limited-access freeway, including the entire portion in Monmouth County and much of the northern end through New Brunswick and Piscataway. The remainder of the route is a multi-lane divided highway. Route 18 was designated in 1939 as a proposed freeway from Old Bridge to Eatontown. The section west of Old Bridge was formerly designated as part Route S28, a prefixed spur of State Highway Route 28 from Middlesex to Matawan. The designation, assigned in the 1927 renumbering, remained until a second renumbering in 1953. At that point, Route S28 was redesignated as Route 18, though the section from Old Bridge to Matawan was signed as TEMP 18, as this section would be decommissioned when the Route 18 freeway was built.
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