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    Yanticaw Park

    4.8 (12 reviews)

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    Steps down to park
    Jeannette L.

    A few weeks ago, my dude and I walked around Yanticaw in Nutley. We drove over there from 21, which was super close to to the highway and easy to find. We parked on Park Drive, which is the street between Park Way and Oakridge Ave (nearby the sports complex there). Park Drive divides the park into the sports/activities way, and the part of the park with Third River. The latter has nice paths where you can walk/jog/run, walk your dog, or just enjoy the view. There are also bridges that let you walk over the river. The park is well-maintained and clean. It's very pretty, too. I saw two women taking pictures on the bridge. I'm glad we went to Yanticaw to switch it up and see a new park. Check it out if you are in the area.

    Third river
    Ed R.

    This is a beautiful park that stretches along the third river inside Nutley. It has jogging trails and walking paths next to the streams which have some fish and plenty of ducks. The only down point is that geese also converge on the streams and can be aggressive sometimes. There are also a couple of well manicured playgrounds for the kids. Nutley does a very good job taking care of its parks. There is also a pond that is stocked with trout in the spring. The hill to the east of the pond is also great for sledding in the winter. All in all a great park that looks great no matter what time of year it is.

    A Fox!
    Marissa R.

    This place is a joggers paradise albeit a bit short (approx 2.3). It's completely paved with no major incline or decline. My husband and i made the mistake of jogging in the dark in a place we didn't know but the street lights in yanticaw kept it pretty well lit and we felt completely safe. The scenery and surrounding buildings were beautiful. We even met a fox at the end!

    Swings
    Joanne G.

    beautiful park! it has a big playground area with 2 different age sections for the little ones and the bigger kids. I love the trails. there is a river with ducks. the park expands to 3 sections, just follow the trail. lovely town too. weekends are packed so maybe you can avoid during peak times.. lunch time dies down tho and there is only street parking. try to find parking on the side streets. Enjoy

    A bit of solace to take a stroll or short bike ride. Only issue is groups of people blocking the narrow path.

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    This was a beautiful park with nice trails to walk. It is definitely a place the whole family can enjoy!

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    Park Drive divides the park into the sports/activities way, and the part of the park with Third River.

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    Sunset Memorial Park

    Sunset Memorial Park

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    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.

    Watsessing Park

    Watsessing Park

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    First timer.. came searching for this ground and was finally able to find it .. I thought I'll add…read morethis to google for others not to waste time searching for this ground . Cricket pitch was good . Nice bounce and carry . Matted wicket . Outfield was damp and full of grass . It is also kind of a slope on one side .. decent sized ground for adult leagues . Lots and lots of trees outside to give smother players some shade : there was only one restroom close to the field . Parking is a mess though. Road side parking . Overall a good ground for cricket on weekends ..

    Watsessing Park is a park that runs alongside Glenwood Ave. It is quite large and somewhat unique…read moreas it's split into two parts. The first part closer to Bloomfield Ave. Is more open field and walking. Within the past few years a new playground, There plenty of benches in this area is closer to Bloomfield ave. Parents bring their kids often, so as soon at that opened it was getting a lot of use. There is a wide-open area for soccer. In the back corner there is a little dog park. On the other part of the park there less open field as there is a little Brook that runs through it. There is a small track, basketball court and a recently built mini water park with fountains that gets a lot of use in the summer. The park is nice for walking through. There aren't a whole lot of benches on the Glenwood ave. part so it isn't the best for people watching but more for a nice stroll. Even on the nicest days it isn't too crowded except for maybe the court and soccer field.

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