Camden, New Jersey, is not that far from my home in Newfoundland (not compared to Perth, Australia, anyway!) but during all the years I've been hunting Peter Pan statues, the only place I've ever been to in New Jersey is Newark, while visiting New York City. It's quite a distance from there to Camden. However, in the spring of 2018, my husband and I, along with our daughter and a friend of hers, took a road trip to Virginia, and I figured out that on the way back, we'd only have to divert about an hour out of way to swing through Camden and find Peter Pan.

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The statue wasn't easy to find, even with the GPS -- once we got into the city, the GPS led us to a busy area where we found a parking place, got out, and started to walk towards where the statue was supposed to be. We saw nothing remotely resembling a park or any place where a statue might be, and were about to give up when we tried walking in the opposite direction and found Peter Pan in all his splendour, right in front of a building at Rutgers University. It's described online as being at "the entrance to Johnson Park" but the area is extremely urban and doesn't immediately jump out as "a park" (i.e., a green space) the way the other statue locations do -- probably why we had difficulty locating it.

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This website, which inaccurately states that the Camden statue is one of five around the world, is hopefully a little more accurate in telling us that it was dedicated in 1926. That would likely make it the fourth of the statues to be made and put in place, after London, Brussels and St. John's.