Parks across Somerset County close after dark. The Somerset County Park Commission closes county parks from dusk to dawn, and each municipality closes its own parks under its police power, N.J.S.A. 40:48-2. Being in a closed park is trespassing.
Somerset County does run a park system, and both the county and its municipalities close their parks overnight. The Somerset County Park Commission, which manages sites such as Colonial Park in Franklin Township, Duke Island Park in Bridgewater, and the Sourland Mountain Preserve in Hillsborough, sets posted hours that generally run from dawn to dusk unless a permit or scheduled program allows otherwise. Municipal parks in Bridgewater, Bernards, Somerville, and other towns close under local ordinances adopted through the general police power of N.J.S.A. 40:48-2, most often from dusk or a fixed evening hour until dawn. Posted signs at each entrance control.
County park rangers and municipal police enforce closing hours. Staying in a county or municipal park past posted hours is defiant trespass under N.J.S.A.
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