Mercer County Park

What a great treasure located in beautiful Mercer County, NJ. Acres and acres of beautiful scenery from ball fields to a dog park, to a marina, picnic areas and amphitheater. This time my wife and I were there for the Central Jersey Beerfest. Great bands, great food (food trucks), great people and weather. They also have a great area for running 5K’s as well as an ice skating center. Bike trails, hiking trails— come and have fun!

Really great park, it has a nice view at the lake, boats if you want to rent and a nice trail with playgrounds for kids to play with! However, the snack bar at the marina sucks! Guy working today was slow and very rude another worker who was off came and was talking to him and ignored me while waiting on line then when finished with previous customer ignored me and went to talk to his friend. Very rude to do and if you come to enjoy the park and see a slow guy at the snack bar don’t order cause chances are you’ll be ignored.

I have ridden my bike here twice and really enjoyed it. The scenery is great and I especially love the marina. I can wait to go for a walk on the blue trail next time I’m there. It’s also a great place for a picnic.

The trails were absolutely breath taking my best friend and I hiked for miles and the view was amazing. There was a lake so boating is an option the only thing is that boating is a bit expensive. There is a cute little snack bar. The food there was really good. I would recommend this park for anybody who loves the outdoors and is just looking for a good time.

Awesome park and it’s humongous. I went here to play basketball and there are like 6 full courts and a few half courts. People of all ages come here to play so don’t be scared. There’s a road that cuts through the park and you can drive around it also. This park is also great for picnics and other sports like soccer.

Possibly my favorite park in NJ, definitely in the central Jersey area at least. This is a source of pride for the entire state as many regional events are held here. The county uses this space for many festivals, concerts and celebrations. My favorite activities here are mountain biking, hiking and kayaking. The trails begin in the center of the park, but get more interesting the farther out you go. The best can be found near the dam, and on the opposite side of the lake where few «tourists» venture. The marina has a great boat launch, that also serves as a convenient way to get into and out of your kayak or canoe. Plus a little beach for those who like to go old school. The park can fill up on weekends when the weather is mild, but once you go far enough in either direction, you will find there are few distractions. This is a great place for lovers of wildlife, you will almost certainly see herds of deer. And if you are lucky, even bald eagles. Pack a picnic lunch, and commune with nature here.

The park is HUGE!!! The park has so many things: bike trails, varietues of sport fields, children’s playgrounds, picnic areas and also water areas for kayaking. Also they have dog parks. We brought in our pom few times and he LOVED it!
We’re really happy to see our dog to run around freely.

I used to ice skate at the rink and ALL of the staff were great, made a lot of friends with the staff, EMTs and the park rangers. Boating in the summer is always something fun to do with the family. They offer paddle boats, row boats and I think they do some boat tours throughout the summer. They run I believe Memorial Day to Labor Day. I recommend stopping at the freedom fest close to July 4 and the Italian American festival in early-​mid September.
–David

great dog park to go to if you like being bossed around by guys that think they are the bouncer of the dog park. my dog was rubbing his butt on the ground and some guy stared me down and told me to clean up after my dog… even though he wasnt using the bathroom, and this isn’t the only place that guys that don’t run the place think they run the place, guess they don’t get enough power elsewhere. life is too short for people like that, i take my dogs to other parks. also, my dogs dont need to socialize here, i take them to see my friend’s dogs. beside the dog park there is an area behind the tennis courts that look like the poconos

big-​ass park in south jerz.
ain’t nothing down here but grasslands and farms, so a big park with lots of grass isn’t out of the ordinary.
I like the fact that they did a food truck event here… with bands and shit.
Why the fuck are there bike lanes? Its a godayum park.

This park wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting more of a hiking/​trail filled type park, but instead this place is geared more towards the sporting and picnicking side of things. Even though I was expecting something else, I still really enjoyed this place.
It’s very well kept, and obviously not a forgotten little county park like so many I’ve seen. It’s also huge, as others have noted, and their signs aren’t all that helpful in navigation. Right now it’s absolutely gorgeous with all the fall foliage, check it out before it gets insanely cold.
I’ll try this park again, preferably with a dog to take to the dog park and play fetch with. So now I have to borrow someone’s dog. Anyway, a very nice, very clean and family friendly park.

This is really a fantastic park. It’s truly enormous, with what must be thousands of acres. The center of the park is Mercer Lake, where you can hang out by the pier, fish, take a boat out or watch the US Olympic Rowing Team train.
There are a number of tennis courts, soccer courts and cricket pitches, as well as an indoor ice rink and a large fairgrounds with an amphitheater. Walking trails wind through the entire park.
They have a bunch of festivals here throughout the year, including a spring food truck festival, the Indian-​American Festival, the Italian-​American festival, the Trenton Kennel Club dog show, etc.

An incredible park with so many amenities! My friends and I have so many memories here from canoeing on the lake, to playing basketball, to picnicking, to the great
Community fairs and activities, and to supporting our other friends in the Mercer County Tennis tournaments. What a wonderful place!

**GPS Traveler beware the address/​directions from their site will take you to the back side of the park to the boat area** If you want the festival grounds entrances you want to stay on Quakerbridge until you get to Paxson — otherwise you end up on Post by the canoe launch area and a dead end.
This is a really large park that is having a lot of nice work done to it.
The festival grounds allow or large events like the Freedom Festival that we went to this past weekend. It is a pet friendly event that they hold annually that features a wiener dog race!
The dog park is nice with both a large a small dog areas. I need to go here more to do a more full review but everything I have seen is well ma

This is a GREAT park! Tons of different playgrounds and hiking trails, a little marina where you can rent paddle boats, rowboats, and kayaks (life jackets too), summer concerts (they have food/​ice cream/​alcohol for sale there or bring your own food), and lots of festivals. Soccer fields and walking trails. We often see deer feeding while we walk/​drive through. We love this park!

Mercer County Park is the best park in the area. The trails are marked by the mile. My favorite area when not crowded is the marina. The views of the water as well as the sunset is a nice spot to spend a few hours. There are pavilions and sports fields all over the park. Keep an eye on their calendar as there are numerous event held in the park worth attending including the Irish Fest and the 4^th of July Spectacular.

Just updating to include that they DO, in fact, have a water spigot and its a pretty sweet one at that! A tall one for humans and a short one with a metal basin for dogs.

This is a really nice park. Some friends and I went for a run here and have also been here for a 4^th of July event. The even was fun. They had a beer garden and some booths set up along with fireworks at night of course. Great for families!

I’ve been here a few times bc my friend lives right around the corner. They always have a great 4^th of July spectacular with a beer garden. I’ve also been running on one of their trails. It’s a great park and pretty big too.

Unquestionably the best park in Mercer County. There’s not much more to say than CS said very well.