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    Richard W. DeKorte Park

    4.7 (20 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Updated 1 month ago

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    Derrick G.

    Richard W. DeKorte Park is located in Lyndhurst New Jersey, across the river from New York City. It has outstanding trail called Transco Trail. The trail runs along water, and has an outstanding view of New York City. This is a great place to visit, for an outdoor activity.

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    Eloy Y.

    Bald Eagles are a symbol of America, but did you know they are a symbol of New Jersey as well? Located at DeKorte Park in Lynhurst, a sizable crowd gathered today for the annual Meadowlands Eagle Festival, including my partner and I. The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and the Bergen County Audubon Society sponsored the event, featuring guided walks, talks, information tables, an art exhibit, children's activities, and more. Don Torino of the Bergen County Audubon Society spoke in the auditorium about the eagle, its history, the struggle and answered questions. As recently as 20 years ago, seeing a bald eagle in the Meadowlands was a rare event. The eagles have made a remarkable comeback, in part due to the state's efforts, the endangered species act, the clean water act, and the removal of DDT from the environment. Bald Eagles have successfully nested in the Meadowlands these past two years, emblematic of a healthier environment and a cleaner Hackensack River. The Ridgefield nest, located at 1 Bell Drive, is one of as many as five in Bergen County. The nest has been inhabited for several years by a male and a female, Al and Alice. New Jersey still protects them as endangered during their breeding season. Thanks to the hard work of our wildlife conservationists, the growing eagle population that has expanded statewide is proof that we have a healthy environment for wildlife.

    "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir
    Thomas A.

    After a lifetime of taking the meadowlands for granted while passing through - it's kind of wild to actually be in the thick of it and getting to see (and smell... pee-ew... there was something mighty rank a-brewing down there!) what nature is up to while the various roadways not too far away have traffic whizzing by and NYC is on the horizon with its ever-developing skyline.  And you're in this serene setting just rambling throughout the park and finding new places to explore. Did I feel a bit inadequate as I pulled out my iPhone to take some pictures and people all around had some really serious gear (including one guy with a telephoto lens that could probably reach the surface of Mercury)?  Without a doubt. Some really amazing views, the walkways are wide enough for people coming and going, and since we're still in the thick of COVID - it's worth noting it was probably 60/40 for people wearing masks vs. those that felt they didn't need to. It's free. The trails and surrounding areas were litter-free. Definitely worth a visit.

    Deb A.

    Nice and clean park. There's plenty of parking spaces. All buildings are closed. Porta potty is clean and supplied with paper towels and hand sanitizer.

    Naomi L.

    I love this park! My fave around the area. Really nice trails to go walking on and the view of the city is gorgeous.

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    Anton K.

    It's a complex consisting of nature trails through a salt marsh, an environmental center with exhibits and the free William D. McDowell Observatory. Pick-up a trail map at a kiosk by the Discovery Marsh Boardwalk entrance or at the Meadowlands Environmental Center. The boardwalk takes you out into the salt marsh. There are shaded sitting areas with benches along the way. There are also trails which boarder the salt marsh paved with red gravel and leading to viewing points. Information signs are also along the way. The environmental center has exhibits, exploration activities and an auditorium. Students can be seen on field trips throughout the year. Programs are available pre-K to 12th grade on subjects like ecology, chemistry, biology, physics, natural history and astronomy which are tied to the N.J. Core Curriculum Content Standards. Dip-netting in the marsh is part of the hands-on activities. Live animal demonstrations are given also in the separate education building to visiting students. There are programs also conducted for adults. Senior talks on geography and human history of the Meadowlands are given periodically.Their website has a listing of events. The William D. McDowell Observatory is free to the public on Wednesday evenings. They have a classical Cassegrain telescope capable of viewing objects millions of light years away with filters to minimize light pollution. A spectroscope to analysis wavelengths of light to determine the chemical composition of light-emitting objects in the night sky is also on hand. You will have to be able to climb 25 spiral stairs. Great place to learn about salt marsh ecology or just enjoy a day of hiking and exploring.

    Craig C.

    I loved DeKorte Park from the first time I visited it. I've been here quite a few times now and still look forward to going whenever I can. It's a great spot for birdwatching and bird photography and you'll often see a lot of photographers here. Even if you don't partake in those hobbies, it's nice to walk around and enjoy nature - the Meadowlands are quite a unique habitat. The Marsh Discovery Trail is my favorite in the park as it runs through the water on floating platforms and boardwalks. Very quiet and relaxing despite being close to the Turnpike and NYC!

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    3.3(7 reviews)
    2.7 mi

    Here's my go to place being a baseball coach. Fields are always taken care of and everything is…read moregenerally clean. Safe place to go for a walk or jog, especially on the newly turfed facility. Only downfall is the turf baseball field is always locked unless you pay for a permit. Being that I'm pretty sure tax dollars built and upkeep this park, it's a shame a father and son can't enjoy the turf baseball field to get some hitting in or even just to play catch. It also helps that I've been coaching so long, I know all the spots in case the main fields are claimed.

    I am extremely displeased with the dog safety in this park in general not the fenced in dog park…read morearea. I take my dog to this park daily and there has been multiple instances where dogs are off leashes running the field and the owners don't have control. Last night I was walking my dog and she was attacked by another dog that wasn't leashed came up behind us and went after my dog. Luckily my dog wasn't injured badly because I was able to pick her up before the other dog got to her further. I told the owner of the dog to put her dog on a leash where she then spoke vulgarity back to me and threatened me. There are signs in this park stating they should be leashed unless in the dog park area yet no one follows it. I'm extremely disappointed that my dog had to endure pain because of the negligence of the owners. I am hoping that the town will look into this further and push for owners to have their dogs leashed no matter what. No matter how well trained your dog is you don't know what can happen and as a dog owner you need to protect them as well as other dogs nearby by leashing them. I hope the town will do better by enforcing the dog on leashes as they are posted on the grounds entering and exiting this park.

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    Sunset Memorial Park

    4.0(2 reviews)
    3.7 mi

    At the risk of sounding arrogant, I'm used to larger parks-- parks that offer baseball, soccer, and…read morefootball fields, hiking and running trails, hockey rinks, picnic tables, outdoor grills, facilities for large groups to gather indoors, water fountains, bathrooms, ample parking lots, even...disc golf. Sunset Memorial Park is miniscule in comparison to them, and it offers...well, benches to sit down on and enjoy the scenery that presents itself. Just to be clear, I don't mean that as a dig. I like the park, although I've never spent a lot of time in it. And...at the risk of belaboring my life story...I had virtually no familiarity with Rutherford at all...its parks or anything else about it...until my birth mother located me (with the somewhat reluctant assistance of the Lutheran Agency through which I had been adopted many moons earlier) and reached out approximately 20 years ago. At that time, my maternal grandmother resided not far from where Sunset Memorial Park is located. This is the area where my birth mother spent her teenage years (she spent her childhood years in Hoboken). It's where I first met my genetic relatives, who were...thankfully...warm and welcoming. I never felt I was replacing the family I was raised with...they were, and always will be, my family...but I have expanded that family, and consider my relatives...both genetic and adopted...family. My late grandmother loved this park and would come here often up until her final years, when her son (my uncle) moved her down to North Carolina and out of the old family residence. I've only actually walked in the park once or twice, and found it pleasant enough, but I pass here often when driving to visit my birth mother. She tells a story of how her father, a decent guy by all accounts, but a bit of the tyrannical puritan (he died years before my reunion with my genetic family took place, and I unfortunately was never able to meet him, but I think, if I can play the dime store psychiatrist about someone whose genes I carry but never actually encountered face to face, he was probably somewhat conflicted emotionally and perhaps psychologically; his father's family were wealthy Protestants originally from New Hampshire, which certainly clashed...religiously and culturally...with his mother's Brooklyn working-class Irish Catholicism; he insisted his children be raised as Congregationalists, but when he had had a few beers and was feeling no pain, he was not adverse to singing "Danny Boy" and other Irish classics, often in the company of his maternal Irish relatives, whom he revered), came upon a teenaged couple "making out" in the park and brusquely told them to move on and to take it somewhere else. My birth mother was mortified and embarrassed. (It's ironic, perhaps, that I was "conceived" in a house just a stone's throw from the park and born to teenagers who were also "making out.") In addition to being small, the park is sort of on a tilt, so when you walk around it, you're almost walking at an angle. It's well cared for and landscaped with thorough professionalism (U.S. Veterans have worked together to revitalize it), and it does have more than enough benches for sitting. Is there much to see from those benches? Well...Rutherford is a nice Bergen County town. It seems to have aged well. The houses surrounding the park are not new, but they're well kept, and there are abundant trees in the vicinity (Rutherford is often referred to as "the borough of trees"). Of course, not far distant, across the polluted Passaic River (with numerous homeless people living on its banks), is the grimy, often dangerous, always depressing city of Passaic. As invariably happens in life, grim reality is never far off from intruding upon whatever peace and restorative tranquility we can temporarily find for ourselves. But, for all that, it's still a nice place to sit, reflect, meditate, and contemplate life in all its ramifications and complexities. To relax, maybe have a conversation with a friend, or friends. It's definitely an old park (according to a marker set up near its perimeter, it was established in 1905 on land donated by Henry Jackson, whoever he was), so it has that certain timeless quality and sense of history about it. Just don't expect to play any disc golf while you're here.

    The story goes that Rutherford landowener Henry R. Jackson use to enjoy watching the sunset from…read morethis rolling hill area of his land.  He later donated the plot of  land to the town with the cavit that it would remain as an undeveloped recreatiomn area.   110 Years later on street named after Jackson sits the small park which also serves a memmorial to WWI, and WWII local servicemen, a  memmorial  is here dedicated to their memory and sacrifice. Other than that hardly anyone is seen at this park, and due to development across the Passaic River those sunset are not the same as they where in Jackson's time.

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