Piscataway is a township in central New Jersey, adjacent to New Brunswick and best known as the home of several Rutgers University campuses — Busch Campus and Livingston Campus are both here, along with the university's football stadium and basketball arena. The area is heavily suburban, dominated by corporate office parks along Route 1 and Hoes Lane.
As a destination it offers two sites worth a detour from New Brunswick: the East Jersey Olde Towne Village, an open-air museum of colonial-era buildings on the Raritan riverbank, and the Rutgers Ecological Preserve, 360 acres of woodland trails threading between the university's campuses. The Cornelius Low House, a Georgian mansion of 1741 now serving as the Middlesex County Museum, stands on a bluff above the river a short walk from the village.