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South Mountain Reservation, covering between 2,047 [1] and 2,112 [2] acres (between 8.28 and 8.54 km 2), depending on the source, is a nature reserve on the Rahway River that is part of the Essex County Park System in northeastern New Jersey. It is located in central Essex County, New Jersey within portions of Maplewood, Millburn, and West Orange.
Environmental education center operated by the New Jersey Audubon Society, almost 1000 acres, 5 miles of trails, 50-acre McCormack Lake Poricy Park Nature Center: Middletown: Monmouth: Shore Region: 250-acre (100 ha) nature preserve and park, known for its Cretaceous era fossil shell beds Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area: Montville ...
Eagle Rock Reservation is a 408.33-acre (165.25 ha) forest reserve and recreational park in the First Watchung Mountain of New Jersey (U.S.), located in the communities of West Orange, Montclair, and Verona. The land is owned and administered by the Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs. 9/11 memorial
Spanning more than 1,600 acres, Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area features over 19 miles of rugged trails, forests, rock outcroppings and wetlands that you can explore alongside your pup.
Llewellyn Park is a historic gated community and census-designated place (CDP) [4] located within West Orange in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Llewellyn Park is thought to be the country's first planned residential community, and the site of the first large-scale naturalization of crocus, narcissus, and jonquils.
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Great Falls of Paterson-Garret Mountain: January 1967; expanded April 1967: Paterson: Passaic: federal The Great Falls of the Passaic River and a later expansion including Garret Mountain help demonstrate how jointed basaltic lava flow shaped the geology of the area during the Early Mesozoic era through both extrusion and intrusion
Large open area with beaver dams on the Mullica River southeast of Lake Atsion. Between 170–200 million years ago, the Atlantic coastal plain began to form.. The Barrens formed in the southernmost and newest land area in New Jersey 1.8 to 65 million years ago, during the Tertiary era.