Liberty State Park

About Liberty State Park

Liberty State Park is a state park in Jersey City, New Jersey. It has a coastline along the Hudson River with views of the Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. (Battery Park and the World Financial Center are the closest parts of New York to the park.) The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.

Liberty State Park is 1,212 acres (4.9 km²) in area, and takes up more than a mile of the Jersey City waterfront. It is bordered to the north by the Morris Canal Big Basin, to the south and east by the Hudson River, and to the west by Jersey City. Most of the park's area is on man-made land filled in by the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, now-defunct companies whose lines once terminated there. A freight rail line and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail run along the western edge of the park.

Two small southern sections of Liberty State Park are connected to Caven Point and are separated from each other and from the main part of the park by a body of water. One is connected to northern Caven Point and the other is a thin pier that extends out from Chapel Avenue.