Footbridge Coming This Year To Alvin P. Williams County Park

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Sometime in 2025, Middlesex County will build a pedestrian walking bridge to connect the area where Anchors tiki bar is located on the Sewaren waterfront with Alvin P. Williams Park, which is owned and operated by the county.

The bridge will likely be built this summer. Once it is built, people going to the tiki bar, or taking their dogs to the Cliff Road dog park will be able to walk across the creek and access Alvin P. Williams. Alvin P. Williams is a 36-acre peninsula park that has walking and biking paths, a playground, restrooms and sweeping views of Arthur Kill.

This will be a footbridge; cars will not be able to drive over it. Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac called the upcoming footbridge "much-needed and long-awaited."

The Woodbridge tiki bar is located in a grassy, meadow-y area and the Woodbridge dog park is located nearby. The town will also be expanding that dog park sometime in 2025, and adding more parking, as Patch reported Friday.

The little creek where the tiki bar is located is called Smith’s Creek. It empties into Arthur Kill.

Alvin P. Williams Park is named for a Woodbridge Twp. police officer who died in 1979 while trying to save two young children who were drowning in a creek after a tropical storm dropped several inches of rain on the area, causing rivers and creeks to overflow.

Patrolman Williams and his partner were on patrol that day, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. They heard two children screaming for help. Williams jumped into the water to try and rescue them, but he drowned. The two children also drowned.

Williams had served with the Woodbridge Police Department for 20 years. He was survived by his son and three daughters.

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Tiki Bar On The Woodbridge Waterfront Now Open (July 2024)

New Tiki Bar On Woodbridge Waterfront Is Worth Trip Up Smith's Creek (July 2024)