Are you getting outside enough? Many zoos are open 362 days of the year. Or look for a class on Environmental Education Places. Check out your County Parks programs (or the Morris County, NJ calendar). Or a bird sanctuary?
Pretty spur of the moment: Ice skating or roller skating rink, miniature golf, or try a museum with a new exhibit, one you have never been to, or somewhere you have not visited recently. Have you thought of these museums?
- Morris Museum (visual and performing arts, natural and physical sciences, and humanities museum, Morristown);
- Museum of Early Trades and Crafts (Madison);
- Montclair Art Museum (Montclair);
- Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms (Parsippany, NJ), April 1 - November 16:
Wed. to Fri. - Noon to 3:00 p.m. (with tours: 12:15 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.) and weekends yer-round.
- Liberty Science Center (directions);
- Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 53 East Hanover Ave, Morris Township 973-326-7600, open daily 9 am - 4:30 pm
- Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick) across the street from the (limited hours, but both are and convenient to the train station);
- The NJ Museum of Agriculture (North Brunswick, they also have educational programs at $185 for 25 students);
- Newark Museum (art & science with hands on exhibits, Newark); or
- Franklin Mineral Museum (Franklin)?
- Guided Tour of the Willows, Historic House at Fosterfields, 73 Kahdena Road, Morristown 973-326-7645. Tours 1 pm, Wednesday - Friday and on weekends at 1 pm & 3 pm.
- Lake hopatcong Historical Museum, Hopatcong State Park, Route 80, Landing 973-398-2616. free admission
- Dover History Museum House, 155 West Blackwell Street, Dover, NJ 973-366-06329, only open Sundays 1 - 4pm
- Whippany Rail Museum. open mostlyweekends, but call first.
- Bronx Zoo, NY
- Bergen County Zoological Park (Van Saun Park Zoo), Van Saun Park, 216 Forest Avenue, Paramus, NJ, 201-262-3771
- Turtle Back Zoo, 560 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ 973-731-5800/5801(open virtually year-round)
- Space Farms Zoo & Museum (218 Route 519, Sussex, NJ. 07461, Phone: (973) 875-5800, website: http://www.spacefarms.com/)
- Cape May County Park & Zoo: 364 days a year! 10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
(closing at 3:45 p.m. during winter hours) 707 Route 9 North, Cape May Court House, NJ 08210 - Johnson Park Zoo, River Road, Piscataway, NJ 732-745-3900
- Lakota Wolf Preserve, 89 Mount Pleasant Road, Columbia, NJ, 877-SEE-WOLF, Wolf Watch program presented Twice Daily (Summer Hours) - 10:30 and 4:00. Fall & Winter (Standard Time) Twice Daily - 10:30 and 3:00. No Appointment required on weekends. Call for Reservations for Monday through Friday.
- Cohanzick Zoo, Bridgeton City Park, Bridgeton, NJ, 856-455-3230 ext. 242 or 277
- New Jersey State Aquarium, 1 Riverside Drive, Camden, NJ 609-365-3300, 800-616-5297
- Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, CT
- Sterling Mines (Ogdensburg)?
- a Sculpture Garden?
for Crafts:
- Glassworks (Morristown)
- Brushes and Bisque (Denville)
- Plastermania, 534 Kearny Ave, Kearny, NJ, 201-991-2229 or 1-800-748-4496
Advance Planning Required:
NY Sun Works - (perhaps as much as a year!) arrange a trip to their sustainable energy/hothouse barge.
mostly for the younger crowd:
- Community Children’s Museum, 77 East Blackwell, Dover, NJ 973-366-9060
- Discovery House, 152 Tices Lane, East Brunswick, 732-254-3770
- New Jersey Chldren's Museum, 599 Valley Health Plaza,
Paramus, NJ201-262-5151 - The Jersey Shore Children's Museum, Inside the Shore Mall, Eg Harbor Township, 609-645-7741
More in NY:
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