White Oak Park, Branchburg, NJ

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 Branchburg Central Middle School. It is an active

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Firemen’s Memorial Park, Fort Lee, NJ

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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.Ă‚ It is on a nice quiet street, and you canĂ‚ get to it from the street as well as a

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Round Valley State Park, Lebanon, NJ

Note:Ă‚ Thanks Sara Rall for this excellent post!Ă‚ From Sara Rall

Round Valley State Park in Lebanon, Hunterdon Co. is just east of where USĂ‚ Route 22 leaves I-78 at exit 18.

Directions from NJ State Park Website:

“Take I-78 west to exit 20 A to Route 22 west, follow signs to the park.

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Belleville Park, Belleville, NJ

Belleville Avenue and Parkview Avenue, Belleville, NJ.

Belleville Park belongs to Essex County and borders Branch Brook Park.Ă‚ If you are looking for the playground in Branch Brook,Ă‚ the maps at Branch Brook don’t help much.Ă‚ Ă‚ I spent the day touring Branch Brook Park, all over with my trio, not to find the

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Getting Advertisers for a niche blog- What to Charge? Part 1- Gathering Data

So, it’s official, my workload is not much but I continue to pursue this little passion of playgrounds, and I’m hoping to make it a wonderful site and resource for NJ parents. At the same time, I do want to make it profitable to cover my costs of traveling, visiting and hosting.

Anyone want to

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Constitution Park, Fort Lee, NJ

Constitution Park is located between Fletcher Avenue & Lewis Street & Linwood Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ. http://www.fortleenj.net/parks-recreation/constitution.html

Mira from MiraBest.com, had suggested this park to visit, so I did! It was great, however I made the mistake of forgetting a very important cross-street, Lewis. So it took a call to the Parks & Rec Dept.

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Hillside School, Bridgewater, NJ- for older kids

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, wooden one is aimed at older children and can

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Funtime Junction, Fairfield, NJ

400 Fairfield Road, Fairfield, NJ. $9.75/admission. Free internet access (wireless)!

Purchase Deal:

$15 For A Family Fun Package (Reg. $30)

Ball pits, with their bright primary colors and inviting crayon smells are a human child’s natural environment. Release yours back into the wild with this super offer: you’ll get 2 children’s admissions and 1 adult

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The Midland School, Branchburg

Another classic wooden structure!

Thanks Sara Rall for capturing this great playground and sharing the info:

94 Readington Rd., North Branch in Branchburg, Somerset Co.

The Midland School in Branchburg has a wonderful, shady, wooden ADA-accessible playground that is open when school is closed.

There is only one slide, but lots

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Community Children’s Museum, Dover NJ

**UNFORTUNATELY, THE COMMUNITY CHILDREN’S MUSEUM IN DOVER NJ HAS CLOSED PERMANENTLY** **INFORMATION BELOW IS ONLY FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES** Have you checked out all our other indoor play areas? We have included a map of all NJ indoor playgrounds, NJ children museums, even mcdonalds playlands and chuck e. cheeses in NJ and all your recommendations

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