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Other attractions include MetLife Stadium, Meadowlands Racetrack, and SEA LIFE New Jersey Aquarium, each offering a different reason to visit. When planning your trip, it’s important to first decide whether your main focus is indoor sports, a stadium visit, or another leisure activity. You can then tailor your search to what you’d like to experience during your stay.

Indoor Skiing at Big SNOW

Big SNOW is North America’s first and only year-round indoor ski and snowboard resort with real snow. The indoor mountain is temperature-controlled. There is enough snow to ski or snowboard there all day. This makes indoor winter sports a central attraction—useful to know if you’re specifically looking for accommodation for a trip that includes skiing or snowboarding.

MetLife Stadium: Home Games, Events, and Tours

MetLife Stadium is located in East Rutherford and is the home of the New York Jets and the New York Football Giants. The stadium has also hosted major events, including Super Bowl XLVIII, WrestleMania 29 and WrestleMania 35, the Copa America Centenario final, concerts, college football games, and international soccer matches. If a stadium visit is a key part of your stay, this mix of football and other types of events offers another point to consider when planning.

Guided stadium tours are another way to get to know MetLife Stadium. They include the Press Box, the Moody's Commissioners Club, and the Legacy Room. These stops make the tour especially appealing to visitors who want to see different areas of the stadium, not just attend a game or event. Your choice therefore depends on whether an event or a guided tour better matches your travel interests.

Racetrack, Festivals, and Aquarium

Meadowlands Racetrack offers harness racing year-round, simulcasting from around the world, and sports betting at the FanDuel Sportsbook. Its offerings therefore go beyond live harness racing. The racetrack also hosts annual beer, wine, and food truck festivals. If these events interest you, you can make the type of festival a focus of your trip; beer, wine, and food trucks appeal to different interests.

The Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment calendar includes numerous festivals, events, and family-friendly activities. If you’re traveling with children, this focus on events can provide an additional guide when choosing where to stay. It’s also distinct from the Meadowlands Racetrack’s regularly offered activities: the calendar lists several types of events, while harness racing, simulcasting, and sports betting are described as racetrack offerings.

SEA LIFE New Jersey Aquarium is located in American Dream near the Meadowlands Complex in East Rutherford. It adds an aquarium-focused visit to the winter and stadium activities described above. If not everyone in your group wants to ski or snowboard, or if you’re planning around different interests, you can consider the aquarium as a separate reason to visit. These attractions offer different activities, so choose accommodation based on what matters most for your trip.

If you’d like to compare other locations when searching for accommodation, you can also explore Rutherford, Carlstadt, Saddle River, Hasbrouck Heights, Mahwah, Lyndhurst, Ridgefield and Woodcliff Lake.

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