Somerset

Worth seeing in and around Somerset

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Rutgers University

   Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University or simply Rutgers, is a large public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church.

   3.4 km · multi-campus public research university in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia
2. 02
   SHI Stadium

   SHI Stadium is the football stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Rutgers Scarlet Knights football, Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's lacrosse, and women's lacrosse use the venue for home games.

   2.7 km · stadium on the main campus of Rutgers University · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University

   The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art from the acclaimed Dodge Collection, American art from the eighteenth century to the present, and six centuries of European art with a particular focus on nineteenth-century French art.

   3.6 km · art museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

   Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a medical school of Rutgers University. It is one of the two graduate medical schools of Rutgers Health, together with New Jersey Medical School, and is closely aligned with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate.

   3.9 km · medical school of Rutgers University · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Yurcak Field

   Yurcak Field is a 5,000 seat soccer-specific stadium on the main campus of Rutgers University–New Brunswick in Piscataway Township, New Jersey. Fully acknowledged as "The Soccer Stadium at Yurcak Field", it is named in honor of Ronald N. Yurcak, a 1965 All-American Rutgers Lacrosse player.

   3.1 km · soccer-specific stadium in New Jersey, USA · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Rutgers University Geology Museum

   Geology Hall is a historic building on the Queens Campus of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was built from April 1871 to June 1872 to house various science classes and the Rutgers Geology Museum.

   3.6 km · historic building in the Queens Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Rutgers University–New Brunswick

   Rutgers University–New Brunswick is the largest campus of Rutgers University, a public land-grant research university consisting of three major campuses in New Jersey. It is located primarily in New Brunswick and Piscataway.

   3.4 km · largest campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick and Piscataway, New Jersey · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Christ Church

   Christ Church or Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The church reported 456 members in 2016 and 440 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported nationally in 2024 parochial reports.

   3.8 km · historic church in New Brunswick, New Jersey · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Tulipwood

   Tulipwood is a shingle style historic home at 1165 Hamilton Street in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It was designed by Jacob August Lienau.

   1.3 km · historic building · Wikipedia
10. 10
    New Brunswick Theological Seminary

    New Brunswick Theological Seminary is a seminary of the Reformed Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States that follows the theological tradition and Christian practice of John Calvin. It was founded in 1784 and is one of the oldest seminaries in the United States.

    3.3 km · Reformed Church seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Somerset

Airports

Newark Liberty (EWR), 34 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 61 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 62 km

Stations

New Brunswick station, 3.6 km

• New York → Somerset

  47 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · $5–7
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  83 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · $8–10
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  129 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $12–17
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