The New Jersey State Park System administers more than four dozen parks, forests and recreation areas, and more than 50 historic sites and districts. Together, these special places host more than 17 million visitors annually. But in the nation’s most heavily urbanized state, the only State-managed and operated urban park is Liberty State Park. To put more State parks in urban areas, the State hosted a two-stage national design competition for new parks at Trenton and Paterson in 2005-2006.

On November 21, 2006, Governor Jon S. Corzine announced that Field Operations, a New York based landscape architecture and urban design firm, won the Paterson design competition. The Field Operations design team and subconsultants began work on a Master Plan for the Great Falls State Park in April 2007. Working with a Steering Committee of stakeholders, Field Operations produced a draft master plan in August 2007. A public meeting took place on September 8, 2007, an overview of the master plan was posted online and public comments were accepted through October 22, 2007. The final Master Plan was accepted by DEP in July 2008.

 

Please visit again soon for more updates. Questions should be addressed to: greatfallssp@dep.state.nj.us