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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.
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.
The two most prominent ridges, known as First Watchung Mountain (the southeastern ridge) and Second Watchung Mountain (the northwestern ridge), stretch for more than forty miles (64 km) from Somerville (in Somerset County) in the southwest through Morris County, Union County, Essex County, and Passaic County to Mahwah (in Bergen County) in the northeast.
A man jogs past a patch of Daisy Fleabanes in bloom at Richard W. DeKorte Park, a nature and wildlife area in Lyndhurst, NJ on Thursday June 20, 2024. Wild flowers in bloom bring pollinators like ...
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
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 ...
Latitude and longitude coordinates of the sites listed on this page may be displayed in an online map. [1] Historic resources in the Montclair, New Jersey area were surveyed in 1986, leading to a number of separate listings. [2] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025. [3]
The state of New Jersey in the United States owns and administers over 354,000 acres (1,430 km 2) of land designated as "Wildlife Management Areas" (abbreviated as "WMA") throughout the state. These areas are managed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, an agency in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. [1]