To enhance the 52 weeks in your year, we are highlighting 52 thrilling, quirky, only-in-New Jersey experiences to try or revisit this year. Seen the dazzling art at Luna Parc or Grounds for Sculpture? Our team has explored much of what New Jersey has to offer, and these places stood out as the best of the best.
Never been to Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton? Place it at the top of your list. A dozen resident peacocks add to the enchantment. The park is open Thursday-Monday year-round and is a treat in any season. If the devil is in the details, Ricky Boscarino is one devil of an artist. Luna Parc , his home, workshop and ever-changing magnum opus in Montague, is crammed with details that dazzle, delight and sometimes confound. The house and environs give new meaning to the term adaptive reuse, as in a hut ablaze with bottles and a pathway dotted with bowling balls.
Luna Parc is open to the public several weekends a year. Every Saturday night, the Pinelands Cultural Society in Waretown presents a lineup of live country and bluegrass artists, many from the Pine Barrens area.
The all-acoustic shows take place at Albert Music Hall , an air-conditioned, indoor pavilion built in to replace a venue that burned down in Most shows feature five different acts from pm.
Said to be the longest-running weekly event of its kind in the country, the year-old Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove presents classic cowboy kicks and tricks on Saturday nights from Memorial Day weekend through September.
