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North Branch Park, Bridgewater

Guest Post by Sara Rall!

(I’ve been tardy with getting all of Sara’s great posts online, this one is truly a gem, I love the hand-cranked feature here, makes it pretty special! Also what a great place to launch some rockets!)

North Branch Park is located on 355 Milltown Rd., Bradley Gardens, Bridgewater Twp., Somerset County.

North Branch

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Memorial Park, Fair Lawn, NJ

1st Street and Lambert Road, Fairlawn, NJ.

Guest Post by Victoria H.

Memorial Park in Fair Lawn is a nice playground with a parking lot right by the playground equipment. The equipment is high off the ground so probably better for older kids, but there are some baby swings. There also are a few picnic tables and

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Crim School, Bridgewater, NJ

Sara Rall Guest Post-

Crim School playground, 1300 Crim Rd., Bridgewater (Somerset Co.) is another of Bridgewater Township’s incredible collection of school playgrounds. The main climbing structure has slides, bridges, tubes, poles, climbing walls, a net bridge, mushroom caps, spiral pole, parallel inclined poles,
log roller, zip line, even more.

Then there is a smaller structure with a

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Rockytop Playground in Rock Spring Park, Washington Twp., NJ

Another Sara Rall Guest Post, Sara for President! I’m lucky to have such a generous contributor!

Rockytop Playground, in Rock Spring Park, by the intersection of Schooley’s Mountain Rd. and East Springtown Rd. in the Schooley’s Mountain section of Washington Twp. (Morris Co.) is and excellent, sunny playground with lots of
interesting equipment and a big sandbox.
The

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Thomae Park, Bridgewater, NJ

Guest Post by Sara Rall:
homae Park, at the southeast end of Nagle St., Bridgewater (or Bound
Brook), Somerset County.

Thomae Park has a charming playground tucked away in the farthest east
section of Bridgewater (which really should be part of Bound Brook, as my
GPS insists it is). It’s wonderfully shady and almost never crowded.

There is a large climbing

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Woodland School, Warren, NJ

Guest post by Sara Rall:

Woodland School playground (114 Stirling Rd., Warren, Somerset County) is a lovely, shady school playground with some interesting equipment. They have a very nice 4-person bouncy see-saw, a fire-truck climber, a rolling log, a very complex set of monkey bars, tire swing and regular swings.

There are giant maps of New Jersey

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Harding Township School, New Vernon, NJ

Guest Post by Sara Rall- (please note this playground is most likely unavailable during school hours)

Harding Township School, at the corner of Long Hill and Lees Hill Roads in New Vernon (Morris Co.) has a large play structure with an astounding number of interesting details.

The main structure has lots of slides including a really steep

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Wyckoff Community Playground, Wyckoff, NJ

Scott Plaza (back of Municipal Building) 340 Franklin Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ.
I decided to visit this great park after my recent NJ celebrity poll on favorite playgrounds got a response from Jacqueline Laurita of the Real Housewives of NJ. She says:

“The Wyckoff one is big and fun for kids but if you don’t like sandboxes

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Memorial Park, Scotch Plains

1255 Hetfield Avenue, Scotch Plains, NJ. Quiet place, but a good amount of ramps, winding around for kids to run around and various slides in this playground. See pics below. 2 sets of swings in the lower area, and ball field is on the other side. You can also grill here

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Hillside Park, Andover, NJ

I’m closely working with Amy Lamperti of the Playground Guide, a comprehensive guide to all the playgrounds in Sussex County. This is an excerpt from her fantastic listing about Hillside Park in Andover, NJ. Over 40 of Sussex County parks are featured with color pictures in this guide + helpful information on every park in

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