Bowcraft Amusement Park
Bowcraft Amusement Park or Bowcraft Playland was a small amusement park located on U.S. Route 22 West in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. At the time of its closing, it contained 21 rides appropriate for both children and adults.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Park
- Description: amusement park in New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Bowcraft Playland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shady Rest Country Club and Scotch Plains Fanwood High School.
Shady Rest Country Club
Golf course
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Shady Rest Country Club is located at 820 Jerusalem Road in Scotch Plains in Union County, New Jersey. Established in 1921, Shady Rest was the first African-American country club in the United States.
Scotch Plains Fanwood High School
School
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the Township of Scotch Plains and the Borough of Fanwood, operating as the lone secondary school of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Regional School District.
Scotch Plains Baptist Church
Church
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Scotch Plains Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Park Avenue in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery listing on June 14, 2013.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scotch Plains and Mountainside.
Scotch Plains
Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scotch Plains is a town in Union County, New Jersey. This article also covers the neighboring communities of Fanwood and Plainfield.
Mountainside
Town
Photo: Tomwsulcer, CC0.
Mountainside is a borough in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough is located on a ridge in northern-central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. Mountainside is situated 1½ miles east of Bowcraft Amusement Park.
Fanwood
Town
Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scotch Plains is a town in Union County, New Jersey. This article also covers the neighboring communities of Fanwood and Plainfield. Fanwood is situated 1½ miles south of Bowcraft Amusement Park.
Bowcraft Amusement Park
- Category: amusement park
- Location: Union County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Egyptian Arabic—“Bowcraft Amusement Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bowcraft Amusement Park”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكرافت اموزيمينت پارك”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكرافت اميوزمنت پارك”
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Explore places such as Benders Corner and Stony Hill.
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