For years I’ve been extolling the virtues of the Monmouth County Park System, and my recent visit to Deep Cut Gardens just bumped that up another notch. Although it is in a different league than ...

Now a Monmouth County park, Deep Cut Gardens includes the 40-acre country estate purchased in 1935 by Vito Genovese, reportedly as a retreat from the hectic life of mob warfare in New York City.

Deep Cut Gardens in Middleown, NJ on Tuesday, April, 8, 2025. Miniature Mount Vesuvius, a small replica of the rambunctious Italian volcano. Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

Deep Cut Gardens is a 54-acre parcel of gardens and forest owned and maintained by the Monmouth County Park System.