Vision + Action Plan for New Jersey’s Newest State Park (and Construction Progress!)
Realization of New Jersey’s newest state park is moving steadily along; both in the release and celebration of the overall strategic vision and its fast-moving first phase of implementation!
Released publicly in January 2026, The Vision + Action Plan provides a design framework for New Jersey’s newest—and perhaps most novel—state park, a 9-mile greenway that will stretch from Jersey City to Montclair. The Vision + Action Plan gives new life to an abandoned rail line as an ecological, cultural, and recreational corridor that will serve one of the nation’s most densely-populated conurbations. It flips the conventional state park model of driving out of the city to experience nature. Instead, it will bring nature to some of New Jersey’s most transit-dependent and socioeconomically disadvantaged cities.
At the same time, construction on the nearly one-mile Newark segment of New Jersey’s newest state park is moving along!
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