Family Day Trips in Bergen County
Two of the biggest malls in the country, a real river park system, suburbs dense enough for walkable downtowns, and a tunnel to Manhattan when you've had enough of either. Bergen does indoor and outdoor well.
Bergen has two distinct family-day flavors. The mall-anchor flavor (Garden State Plaza, Riverside Square, Bergen Town Center) is what you reach for on a rainy day or with a kid who needs walls and air conditioning. The outdoor flavor (Van Saun Park, Saddle River County Park, the Palisades) gets you under trees with a playground nearby. Both pair cleanly with the county\'s very deep bench of family restaurants.
When the planner sees "Bergen" plus an indoor preference, it leans toward the mall-tenant venues and skips driving between them (the same-mall walk shortcut handles it). When it sees an outdoor preference it routes toward Van Saun, Saddle River, or one of the Palisades overlooks.
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Plan our dayPro tip when prompting: name Paramus, Hackensack, or Englewood directly if you want to anchor on that town\'s restaurants. Bergen is dense enough that a county-wide pick can land far from your preferred lunch.