Highlands Borough Getting A Skatepark: See Renderings

HIGHLANDS, NJ — A skate park is coming to the tiny town of Highlands!

The skate park will be located at Snug Harbor, at the intersection of Bay and Snug Harbor avenues, right at the bottom of the hill overlooking the Raritan Bay waterfront. Highlands hired design firm Spohn Ranch Skate Parks to build it and construction on the skate park is supposed to start this spring.

Here is how the skate park will look: https://highlandsborough.org/w...

Last year, Highlands received a nearly-$600,000 low-interest loan from the NJDEP Green Acres Program to build the skate park.

That is enough money to build it, said the town. But then this January, Highlands received another $200,000 in a Monmouth County Municipal Open Space Grant for the skate park.

That $200,000 will be applied to offset the low-interest (2 percent) loan component of the Green Acres funding package, said the town of Highlands.

Highlands was just one town in a slew of Monmouth County Open Space grant funding announced last month.

Eatontown will get $48,000 in a matching grant to build a splash pad/water park. The splash pad will be located in an entirely new park Eatontown is building, Nicodemus Park.

Many other towns are getting new park improvements: Oceanport is building new pickleball courts and a community garden. Three new pickleball courts are coming to Camp Evans in Wall.

Here are all the Monmouth County towns that will get funding for park improvements in 2022:

• Township of Millstone Clarksburg Cultural Center, Phase III $150,000.00
• Township of Colts Neck Improvements to Laird Road Recreation Center and Five Points Park $140,000.00
• Township of Wall Pickleball Courts at Camp Evans $ 134,000.00
• Borough of Eatontown Nicodemus Park Splash Pad Project $ 48,000.00
• Borough of Fair Haven Spagnuolo Property Acquisition $ 250,000.00
• Borough of Bradley Beach ADA Park Improvements at Lake Terrace Park $ 70,000.00
• Borough of Oceanport Pickleball Court and Community Garden Project $ 53,000.00
• Borough of Highlands Snug Harbor Skate Park Project $200,000.00
• Borough of Manasquan Improvements to Curtis Park Phase II $ 150,000.00
• Borough of Keyport 2021 Park Improvement Project $ 140,000.00
• Township of Middletown McMahon Park Improvements Project $ 200,000.00
• Township of Aberdeen Cambridge Park Improvements $ 150,000.00
• Borough of Monmouth Beach Griffin Park Improvements $ 100,000.00
• Borough of Neptune City Improvements to Adams Field Phase II $ 200,000.00
• Borough of Atlantic Highlands 2022 Open Space Acquisition $ 250,000.00
• Township of Hazlet North Hazlet Community Park $ 250,000.00
• Township of Holmdel Pedestrian & Bikeway Plan Phase 1 $ 114,000.00
• Borough of Red Bank Various Park Improvements Phase III $ 100,000.00
• Borough of Freehold Various Park Improvements $ 117,000.00

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