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Cedar Grove Nature Trail Township of Cedar Grove Trails System Essex County Hilltop Reservation The Lenape Trail Hilltop Reservation is 284.16 acres located in Cedar The main route of the Lenape Trail through Essex Grove, Verona, and North Caldwell. It is composed of County is about thirty miles, extending from downtown lands formerly included in the grounds of the Essex Newark to the Passaic River Bridge spanning between County Hospital Center. The land was designated a Roseland and East Hanover. There are about eleven Conservation Easement in 2001 by the New Jersey De- extra miles of side trails primarily to and including partment of Environmental Protection, which was per- South Mountain Reservation. Completed and proposed manently dedicated for conservation and recreation sections of the trail route are in county and municipal purposes. Additional acreage was dedicated in 2003. parks, rights-of-way, private land and sidewalks. Sec- The reservation is a great place for people who are in- tions of the Lenape Trail will ultimately be co-aligned terested in bird watching. Some of the many birds that with the Liberty-Water Gap Trail slated to span North- can be seen are hawks, doves, woodpeckers, thrushes, ern New Jersey from Liberty State Park in Jersey City and warblers. to the Delaware Water Gap. The trail is marked with yellow blazes. The Hilltop Reservation map was provided by the Hilltop Conservancy. Visit their website at www.hilltopconservancy.org for more information HILLTOP RESERVATION INSET about events, projects, and flora and fauna that can be observed at the reservation. MILLS RESERVATION INSET Designed by the Cedar Grove Essex County West Essex Trail / 1890 Branch Essex County Mills Reservation Environmental Commission The West Essex Trail is an Essex County linear park, www.cedargrovenj.org situated on the former right-of-way of the Caldwell Mills Reservation is 157.15 acres and located in Cedar Branch of the old Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in Verona Grove and Montclair. The Parks Commission received and Cedar Grove. This 2.84-mile trail was acquired in 118.9 acres as a gift from the Davella Mills Foundation 1985 through Green Acre funding and a portion is in- in 1954 and acquired additional acreage through a land- cluded in the Lenape Trail, southwest through the Cedar swap deal for property in Branch Brook Park which Grove Community Park by the Peckman River, across went to Newark’s Barringer High School. Additional Pompton Avenue, Durrell Street, Fairview Avenue and land purchases completed the reservation in 1962 and ending at Arnold Way. 1967. This land was preserved in its natural state as a stipulation for the original gift. The only development 1775 Branch undertaken on this reservation was a small parking area This branch begins in the colonial cemetery at Mor- and system of walking trails. The outcrop at Quarry gan’s Farm at Pompton Avenue, loops around the farm Point provides a scenic lookout and is a great observa- property, follows Old Orchard Court and Little Falls tion area for viewing migratory birds, such as warblers Road, traverses the Cedar Grove Community Park and in the spring and hawks in the fall. connects to the Lenape Trail / West Essex Trail. The The Mills Reservation map was provided by the Essex Sources: Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation, and trail is marked with yellow blazes with a red dot at the County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Cultural Affairs, Hilltop Conservancy, ESRI, DeLorme, center of the blaze. NAVTEQ, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, Geo- Affairs. Base, IGN, Ordnance Survey, METI, and the GIS User Com- munity. Updated February 2016 .
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