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The park is part of the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion. [2] It is home to the red-shouldered hawk, the barred owl and the great blue heron, and includes 1,300-foot (396 m) Wawayanda Mountain and glacially-formed, spring-fed Wawayanda Lake with a swimming beach and boat launch and group camping.
There are also three cabins that are available for rent at the park. The campgrounds are open from April 1 through October 31. [6] There is a swimming beach inside the park with a staff of lifeguards when the beach is open. [6] Swimming in the reservoir is not allowed outside of the designated swimming area. The park offers boat rentals.
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.
Wawayanda Creek (pronounced "way way yonda") is the name of Pochuck Creek above its confluence with the tributary Black Creek. [1] It is 17.0 miles (27.4 km) long. [ 2 ] Wawayanda Creek, via Pochuck Creek, is a tributary of the Wallkill River in Sussex County , New Jersey in the United States . [ 1 ]
Wawayanda Mountain stretches over 7,500 acres (30 km 2) of land, which consists of deciduous forest with areas of scrub-shrub and coniferous woods. [1] Wawayanda Mountain and Pochuck Mountain to the west, form the borders of the Vernon Valley, an important farming and mining area of New Jersey drained by Pochuck Creek. The mountain is a ...
The town of Wawayanda was established in 1849 from the town of Minisink.It had been first settled after the American Revolution.The name Wawayanda had historically been more broadly used to describe the region, even earlier than a 1769 map, [4] which also shows the line of partition used to resolve the 50-years long New York – New Jersey Line War.
Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, United States, about 4 square miles (10 km 2) in area.Located 30 miles (48 km) from the Delaware River and 40 miles (64 km) from Manhattan, New York City, the lake forms part of the border between Sussex and Morris counties in the state's northern highlands region.
Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain, [1] is a mountain ridge extending from Wawayanda State Park northward through Abram S. Hewitt State Forest in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey. [2] It is a continuation of Bellvale Mountain in New York. The Appalachian Trail crosses along the ridge into New York. [3]