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Shark River Park is located in the townships of NeptuneWall and Tinton Falls incoastal New Jersey and is part of the Monmouth County Park System.The initial park land was established in 1961 with a purchase of 946 acres (383 ha) ofland used for construction staging during the building of the Garden State Parkway becomingMonmouth County’s first county owned park..The park is bisected by the Shark River from which the park gets itsname and is the source of fossils for local elementary school field trips where students search the river gravel for prehistoric shark’s teeth.