page_title: Hackensack RiverWalk
section_title: Points of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Hackensack RiverWalk / Points of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking south in Richard A. Rutkowski Park at a Riverfront Walk bridge on a partly cloud midday.
context_page_description: Hackensack RiverWalk a is partially constructed greenway along the Newark Bay and Hackensack River on the west side of the Bergen Neck peninsula in Hudson County, New Jersey. The eight-mile walkway, following the contour of the water's edge, will run between the southern tip at Bergen Point, where it may connect to the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, and Eastern Brackish Marsh in the north. Existing parks and promenades have been incorporated and some new sections have been built, but there remain large gaps. There is a RiverWalk in the city of Hackensack, sometimes called the Hackensack RiverWalk, but they are not part of the same project nor are they connected. A parallel walkway on the west banks of the river is known as the Meadow Path.
context_section_description: Bayonne Bridge
  Bergen Point
  Newark Bay
  Shooters Island, an off shore bird sanctuary in the Kill van Kull which the New York/New Jersey state line runs through
  Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, to the southwest crossing the Arthur Kill
  Central Railroad of New Jersey caissons
  Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal and Newark International Airport, across the bay
  Bayonne City Park
  Veterans Memorial Park
  Bayonne High School
  Hudson County Park, named for Stephen R. Gregg
  Rutkowski Park, a wetlands preservation area
  Newark Bay Bridge, part of New Jersey Turnpike Extension I-78
  Lehigh Valley Railroad Bridge
  Route 440
  Morris Canal section further inland
  New Jersey City University Athletic Complex 
  Droyer's Point
  Kearny Point, across the river's mouth
  Bayfront
  New York and Newark Railroad Bridge caissons
  Jersey City Public Works facility
  Hudson Mall & Fourhundred Forty Shopping Center
  U.S. Route 1/9 Truck, originally part of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway
  Lincoln Park West
  Hudson County Police Headquarters
  Pulaski Skyway, considered to be America's first super highway
  Marion Greenway
  PATH Lift Bridge)
  Harsimus Branch Lift, used for rail freight
  Wittpenn Bridge, for NJ Route 7
  Lower Hack Lift, bridge used by NJ Transit Hoboken and Newark Division trains
  Hudson Generating Station, formerly Public Service Railroad Powerhouse
  Croxton Yards
  Penhorn Creek
  Riverbend Wetlands Preserve
  Secaucus Transfer Station, main commuter hub, further inland
  Portal Bridge, part of the Northeast Corridor used by Amtrak and NJ Transit
  New Jersey Turnpike Eastern Spur Bridge
  Snake Hill, also known as Fraternity Rock, former site of insane asylum where the mineral Petersite was first discovered in 1981
  Field Station: Dinosaurs
  DB Draw, de-commissioned bridge on NJ Transit Boonton Line abandoned in 2002
  Saw Mill Creek Wildlife Preservation Area/Kearny Marsh across the river
  Laurel Hill Park
  DeKorte Park, across the river in Lyndhurst, home to the Meadowlands Environment Center
  Upper Hack Lift, for NJ Transit's Main Line and Metro-North's Port Jervis Line
  Anderson Marsh
  HX Draw for NJ Transit's Bergen County Line and Pascack Valley Line
  Harmon Cove
  Meadowlands Hospital
  Route 3 twin-span bridge
  North End Trolley Park
  Meadowlands Sports Complex, across the water
  Snipes Park
  Mill Creek Marsh
  Harmon Meadow Plaza
  Paunpeck Creek
  Eastern Brackish Marsh
caption: Rutkowski Park walkway
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