I haven't notice really any gargabe in the mud. There are some old rocks and bulkheads. There is a really nice beach just to the southeast of this spot. Yes, there is some refuse on it, but it is a real beach, maybe about 1/3rd of a mile or so. It is lower NY bay so almost the Ocean. South East from the beach about 6 miles is the open sea.
Unfortunately, the beach and the trails around it are closed to the public from like April to November to protect the birds. This, to me is idiocy and has the fingerprints of Sam-I-am-the-Park-Pesin. We have to remeber that the park is for the people. This is the most one of the most densley populated places in the the First World. Thus, wildlife sanctuaries have no place in Hudson County if it excludes people. The key is to make sensible restricitions, e.g. not letting any one on the beach for the month that the Plovers are nesting, or not letting anyone in the weeds, just on the trails.

Just to update:

They have not put the handrails up yet, but they have just finished placing the paver's down (they were sweeping up the sand that is used as mortar this morning).

took the light rail to hoboken, and its connected. looks like all thats left to be done is the handrails, but i'm thinking very very soon. can't wait to bike it!

This stretch of walkway is very nice - too bad they can't clean the garbage out of the marshes that is visible at low tide.

Speaking of the walkway, halfway through June, is there any word on the Bridge to nowhere Hoboken?

Officials welcome opening of half-mile stretch of Hudson River Walkway

by Tom Shortell/The Jersey Journal
Monday June 15, 2009, 3:00 PM


Mayor Jerramiah Healy joins open space advocates, Liberty National Golf Club executives and Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone at a Hudson River Waterfront Walkway ribbon cutting.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, state officials, open space advocates and the executives of Liberty National Golf Course gathered at the opening of the newest branch of Hudson River Waterfront Walkway in Liberty State Park Monday.

The walkway is a half-mile stretch connecting the Caven Point section of the park to the public boat launch. It goes through Port Liberte and alongside Liberty National Golf Course.


An egret stands in the marsh off the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway in Liberty State Park.

The path is the latest addition to the planned walkway, which will link nine towns in two counties. "When it's completed, you can walk, bike, or, in my case, cab it from the southern tip of Bayonne to the George Washington Bridge," Healy said.

About seven miles of the walkway's 18.5-linear length, mostly in Bayonne and Edgewater, still have to be completed, said Helen Manogue, president of the president of the Hudson River Waterfront Conservancy.