When the weather outside is dreary or if you're simply looking for a safe and fun environment for your kids to play, indoor playgrounds are an excellent option. New Jersey boasts a variety of indoor play facilities that cater to children of all ages. Here’s a comprehensive guide to some of the best indoor playgrounds in the state.
Indoor playgrounds in New Jersey offer a fantastic way for kids to play and socialize regardless of the weather. With a wide variety of options available, you’re sure to find a perfect spot for your little ones to explore, exercise, and enjoy time with friends. Whether you're looking for bounce houses, climbing walls, or creative play spaces, NJ has something for every young adventurer!
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American Dream
1 American Dream Way
East Rutherford, NJThis Mega indoor family entertainment complex features many year round indoor attractions including:The Nickelodeon Universe Theme Park, The DreamWorks Water Park, Big Snow Ski Resort, SeaLife, Lego Land, Geoffrey's Express mini-train, and more!
Escape Room
157 Main St
Hackensack, NJ
Escape Room is an interactive adventure experience. Your team will be locked in a room with clues, riddles, puzzles and challenges that must be completed.
Not recommended for children under the age of 12.
Funplex
182 Route 10 West
East Hanover, NJ
This amusement park features indoor attractions such as laser tag, arcade games, bumper cars, and a soft play area. The Funplex also hosts birthday parties and special events.
Funtime Junction
400 Fairfield Road
Fairfield, NJ
This indoor children's entertainment center features "vest-less" laser tag, a helicopter carousel ride, toddler playground, bounce house, Beam floor projection game, LiteZilla (giant Lite Brite), Krazy Kars, and black light Scavenger Hunt, the centerpiece remains our multi-level softplay climbscape and jump pillow.
Imagine That!
4 Vreeland Rd.
Florham Park, NJ
An interactive play space designed for creative and imaginative play. It features role-playing areas, arts and crafts, and a mini indoor city. There are also special events and programs throughout the week.
Liberty Science Center
Liberty State Park
222 Jersey City Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ
LSC is a 300,000-square-foot learning center located in Liberty State Park on the Jersey City bank of the Hudson near the Statue of Liberty. The Science Center houses 12 museum exhibition halls, a live animal collection with 110 species, giant aquariums, a 3D theater, live simulcast surgeries, hurricane- and tornado-force wind simulators, K-12 classrooms and labs, teacher-development programs, and the Western Hemisphere's biggest planetariumقthe Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium and LSC Giant Dome Theater.
Skyzone Indoor Trampoline Park
25 Route 22
Springfield, NJ
A trampoline park with various zones including foam pits, dodgeball, and a toddler zone. It’s a great way for kids to expend energy while having fun. Open jump sessions and special events are available.
BounceU
410 Princeton Hightstown Rd
West Windsor, NJ
They have events throughout the week where kids can come bounce off the walls and burn off all that pent-up energy!
ClimbZone
5369 U.S. 9
Howell, NJ
ClimbZone is a unique family oriented, climbing entertainment center. Climbers can scale walls such as Mount Rushmore, a 28 tall Suit of Armor, the Lincoln Memorial, or take a trek across a map of the USA, The walls are designed to allow children of all ages to push themselves to their personal limits. Parents continually provide feedback about the joy they experience when their children have faced an apparently insurmountable obstacle, and overcome the challenge through their own desire to suc
iPlay America
110 Schanck Road
Freehold, NJ
iPlay America offers fun for the whole family in a themed indoor environment. An indoor amusement park with boardwalk style rides, arcade games, and a large soft play area. iPlay America also has a restaurant and hosts special events and birthday parties.
The Jumping Jungle
10 Alvin Court, Suite 100
East Brunswick, NJ
The Jumping Jungle is a 10,000 square foot safe, clean and climate-controlled indoor inflatable recreation center where kids of all ages can climb, slide, bounce, play laser tag and have
SeaQuest
250 Woodbridge Center Dr
Woodbridge Township, NJ
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SeaQuest houses a wide variety of land animals, sea creatures, and reptiles. Here, you can snorkel with stingrays, interact with sloths and otters, have a rejuvenating spa session with fish, and experience other animal exhibits. And, kids, you may even meet a mermaid. Getting into tropical waters to snorkel with stingrays, sharks and tropical fish is an amazing experience that you can enjoy.
Sky Zone
Seaview Square Mall
2355 State Highway
66 Ocean Township, NJ
An indoor trampoline center committed to “fun fitness” ---- providing workouts with awesome, healthy fun. Visitors can experience the weightlessness of bouncing, flipping and landing in a pit filled with 10,000 foam cubes with walled playing courts.
Urban Air Adventure Park
5 Central NJ locations:
Avenel, Hazlet, Lawrence Twp, Milltown & Toms River
Features an indoor park for the whole family to jump, soar, race, climb, and play.
Includes trampolines, wall climbing, tubes playground, virtual reality, battle beams, a warrior course, dodgeball, and more.
Escape AC
At street-level of the North Tower
Tropicana Hotel
2831 Boardwalk
Atlantic City, NJ
Escape AC is a top quality venue that combines highly immersive sets with clever puzzling to deliver four challenging, Atlantic City themed escape room adventures; The Poker Room, The Boardwalk, Casino Cage and Backstage.
The recommended age is 13+, however younger children can participate with assistance from older siblings or parents for complex puzzle content and/or out of reach objects. All participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Funplex
3320-24 US 38
(cross streets are Briggs Road & Hartford Road).
Mt. Laurel, NJ
The fun doesn't end when the weather gets cold; head over to the indoor park, where the fun lasts all year long. The indoor park attractions include The Air Shot, Ocean Tide Boat Ride, Foam Frenzy, Fun Tron, Bumber Cars, XD Dark Ride, Go Karts, and the Arcade.
Jellybean Jungle
Crispin Square
230 North Maple Ave
Evesham, NJ
A play and learn adventure for children 6 and under. They offer a large variety of imaginative and developmentally appropriate activities that will lead your child on an adventure of social exploration! As your child plays, you will gain insight into their development, as well as enjoy a great time of bonding.
Pump It Up
1271 Little Gloucester Rd
Blackwood, NJ
Famous for its inflatable structures, Pump It Up offers bounce areas, obstacle courses, and themed party rooms. They offer open play sessions as well as scheduled events.