In Maple Park look for:
● A 70-year old
Wisteria tree
● One of the largest
stands of Red Cedar in this part of New Jersey
●
A Porcupine (Sweetgum) tree
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A variety of ferns
●
A Shagbark Hickory ( Nature's Picket Fence)
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Fig-Leaf Magnolias with thin graceful leaves
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An herb garden and a wildflower garden
●
A rock garden
DUNHAM
TRAIL - Between Grove Street and Spring Avenue along the Ho-Ho-Kus
Brook and the Public Service right of way
On Dunham Trail look for:
●
Sycamores and a Wild Cherry tree with shiny grey bark
●
Triassic Sandstone, like that used to build Manhattan's
brownstones
● A
Linden Tree wrapped with a Poison Ivy rope
●
Springtime Dogtooth Violets, False Solomon's Seal, Spring
Beauties,
yellow Primroses, pink
Japanese Knotweed, and the biggest path of
Canadian Mayflowers (wild
Lily-of the Valley) in Ridgewood
PLEASANT PARK
- Behind Hawes School
In Pleasant Park look for:
●
Green Beggar ticks, Jewel Weed, Ragweed, and purple
Loosestrife, all
in late summer
●
Fallen "Nurse" logs nourishing many insects, lichens, ferns
and fungi
● Quaking
Aspen trees whose leaf stems (petioles) make them quiver
●
New York ferns and Lady ferns
●
Grape vines
●
Sassafras or "Mitten" trees whose nicknames comes from the
shape of
the leaves
TWINNEY
POND (A wood trip trail circles a pond created by glaciers) - At
the North end of Birch Court in a 3 acre park
At this 3-ft deep
kettle pond, you can see:
●
Sunfish - They sweep clean spots on the pond floor to make
nests
● Shaggy
Birches, Pin Oaks and Locust trees
●
Veronica - looks like tiny Orchids
●
Button Bush - produces white Pompoms in the summer
● Dragonflies (Wings clear and outspread) and Damsel
Flies (Wings
colored and swept back
● The lifecycle of the
tadpole to the frog
GROVE PARK
(32 Acres of Beech forest and field) - South of Grove
Street, West of the Saddle River
In this special acreage:
●
Spring flowers bloom from April 15 until May 30th when the
shade
thickens
●
Trail numbers are placed ten to twelve feet above the ground
on the trees
● Look
for:
#1: A Beech tree
#2:
A sedimentary Sandstone rock under Red Maple
#3:
Beech trees carpeted all around by yellow Adder's Tongue in
Spring along with Skunk Cabbage and Spring Beauties
#4:
Tulip Poplars, the tallest, straightest in the woods
KINGS &
GYPSY PONDS - 30 Acres, including water, with two access points:
King's
Pond: Off Lakeview Drive just before the Midland Park border;
Gypsy Pond: Off an
unmarked street on the Hawthorne Section of Rock Road just
before the RR Tracks. Detailed directions available.
Offers a great variety of bird and mammal life
●
Large rocks at the Park's entrance off Lakeview Drive are
Canadian Shield boulders
●
Wild Azalea (Pinxter) bloom along the railroad track
●
Bracket ferns and Fiddleheads abound in the woods
● Ducks, Canada Geese and over 40 species of birds live here
●
Wild garlic and mustard are abundant
●
The general depth of the ponds is about three feet
COMING
SOON! NATURE WALK AT HABERNICKEL PROPERTY
