Kramer Manor Park
Evelyn Street off Martine Avenue, Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey
7 acres

Directions: (to the tennis courts)

US 78 west to Exit 41; Route 663 south; at intersection with Route 527 turn left and then immediate right onto Bonnie Burn Road (which becomes Park Avenue then Martine Avenue after RR bridge). Continue down Martine Ave. Make left at Cliffwood which is shortly after the Park Middle School. Tennis Courts are on the left, 2 blocks down.

or:

NJ Turnpike to US 78 (exit 14, the Newark Airport Exit). US 78 to Garden State Parkway, exit 135. Turn right, heading northwest on Central Avenue. Very soon turn left onto Raritan Road and take it to a right turn onto Martine Avenue. Turn right onto Evelyn Road.  Drive  past Washington Street and then turn right into the parking area for the park. 

Facilities:

tennis courts, field house, basketball, baseball, playground

Trails:

01/11/2005.  There is only a small piece of woods here between the park area and the Willow Grove Swim Club.  A stream heads through the woods and then through the park.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney. 

PLANT LIST
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

Trees:
Ilex opaca (American holly)
Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)
Quercus alba (white oak)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Ilex verticillata (winterberry holly)
Ligustrum sp. (privet)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Taxus sp. (yew)

Vines:
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis  sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain)

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)

Rushes:
Carex laxiflora type (loose-flowered sedge type)