Parks & Recreation

Come sign up and join Team Linden”!

• Who: Ages 5 – 18
  • All children 5-13 must be accompanied by an adult.
• What: Hooked on Fishing
• When: Saturdays, 10am – 1pm
  • July 17
  • July 31
  • August 14
  • August 28
• Where: McGillvray Pond inside Wilson Park; 1100 Summit Terrace, Linden
• How: Register here online.
  • First time registrants are required to call 908-474-8600 M-F 9am – 4pm to set up an account.
  • Or, register in person at the JTG Center from 9am – 4pm, or the Linden Multi Purpose Center from 9am – 7pm.
• For more information, click here to view and/or download the informational flyer for this event.

Due to inclement weather, the June 8th concert, which would have started at 7:30pm at the Raymond Wood Bauer Promenade, was cancelled.

Linden Department of Parks and Recreation was presented the Agency Showcase Award for Website or Web Feature/Application at the New Jersey Recreation and Park Association (NJRPA) Annual Awards Ceremony at the Summit Family Aquatic Center in Summit, NJ. Ralph Dunhamn (Recreation Director), Angelo Monaco (Day Camp/Playground Coordinator), Branly Cadet (Playground Supervisor), Joshua Weiss were present on May 19 to accept the award.

Faced with the challenge of providing Summer programming bound by COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing protocols, the staff of Linden Recreation responded by creating a Web based Virtual Summer Camp.

Virtual Summer Camp set out to provide a variety of programming opportunities for city residents. Angelo Monaco, Summer Day Camp/Playground Coordinator approved all aspects of the website and edited the embedded Google sheet that contained the weekly schedules and links to all of the instructional YouTube videos that were specific to each activity.

Virtual Camps included live instruction from qualified staff and guest presenters, specialized content and learning resources, after camp challenges to keep campers engaged between sessions, unplugged projects that encouraged children to keep learning away from the computer screen with a variety of dates and times to choose from so that participants could fit a variety of day camp activities into a single week. Programmatic success of the 2020 program has prompted a re-boot of the Virtual Summer Camp website for the upcoming 2021 season, which will include new program offerings.

The purpose of the New Jersey Recreation and Park Association’s Awards Program is to honor and identify dedicated leaders, employees, and volunteers in the field of Parks and Recreation, and to recognize the State’s outstanding Recreation and Park agencies for excellence in programming, publicity, and facility design. The goal of the Awards Program is to focus State attention on the achievement of Park and Recreation agencies, to recognize the continuing efforts of staff and volunteers, and to acknowledge support extended by member agencies.

To view this press release on Union News Daily, please click here.

Linden Department of Parks and Recreation announces that registration has begun for their summer outdoor day camps. To register, participants must be a Linden Resident and entering grades kindergarten through sixth grade as of September 2021. Click here to view and/or download all information about Linden’s Summer Camp program.

2021 Spring Playgrounds are back from May 17th through June 25th Monday through Friday, 5pm – 8pm, where each park will have a counselor on site. All Linden children are welcome! Click here to view and/or download the informational flyer about this event.

2021 Summer Day Camp Reopening Plan

We are excited to reopen the Summer Day Camp program for in-person activities for 2021. Our Day Camp program is more important than ever for Linden’s youth for several reasons: Giving children the opportunity to socialize, providing working parents with safe childcare, and providing an opportunity for children to have a routine and return to a sense of normalcy (Lupert, 2021, Par. 6-7). However, the main priority is the health and safety of our participants. By combining these elements, we aim for our participants have a safe, enjoyable, and transformative experience in the parks and facilities of the City of Linden. The Day Camp Reopening Plan is guided by the New Jersey 2021 COVID-19 Youth Summer Camp Standards Guidelines. Thus, please note that this plan is tentative and may be changed at any time based on updated guidance from the appropriate authorities.

Click here to view and/or download the full Parks & Recreation 2021 Summer Day Camp Reopening Plan.

When we say the Mentalist, we’re not talking about the show. A mentalist is a magician of the mind, specializing in audience connections through a conjuror form of mind reading and psychic entertainment. The mentalist will perform directly with the audience from start to finish.

The show is 100% interactive! Everyone gets involved in a fun and friendly way. Kent Axell is an NYC/ LA/ Las Vegas based Mentalist & Magician. Kent has directed the highest rated close-up magic show in NYC “A Taste of Magic”, consulted for TV show “Brain Games”, and narrated the “Maximum Entertainment” audio book through Vanishing Inc.

• Register Here!
• Click here to view and/or download the informational flyer about this event.

Thank you to Arista Care Health Services for sponsoring this event.