Lenni Lenape Trail: (East Branch of the Trail)
(Roughly from New Jersey Walk Book)
From North (top) to South (bottom):
Yantacaw Brook Park
Brookdale Park (Bloomfield)
over Garden State Parkway
Belleville Park
Branch Brook Park 3 miles
Ballantine House and Newark Museum
cross Washington Park
Military Park (near the Wars of
America Monument)
Start from bottom (south) to top (north):
Warfield Place, Laurel Place,
Highland Avenue, Upper Mountain Avenue
12.3 leaves the ridges and descends into Mountainside Park
(Montclair)
ridge of the First Watchung
11.0 Mills Reservation
Normal Avenue
10.3 Cedar Grove Reservoir north end
Ridge Road
9.3 leaves the West Essex Trail
8.8 a branch trail leads left to Community Park and Morgan Farm
cross Peckman River
8.6 bridge over Pompton Avenue (NJ 23)
next 2.3 miles follow West Essex Trail
7.0 Arnold Way (reaches the rail-trail West Essex Trail)
Bloomfield Avenue, Gould St., Personette Ave., Grove Avenue, Linden Ave., Fairview Ave.
6.2. Verona Park north
5.5 Verona Park south
Gordon Place, Glen Road, Sunset Avenue,
over Mt. Prospect Avenue, Park Avenue, Manor Road
Afterglow Avenue
4.5 Eagle Rock Reservation north
3.0 parking area, Eagle Rock Reservation
Eagle Rock Reservation south
2.4 crosses intersection of Eagle Rock Avenue and Prospect Avenue
Eagle Rock Avenue
Robertson Avenue
Hartshorn Terrace
follows FitzRandolph Avenue
crosses Conforti Avenue
Carteret Street
Lake Vincent Park
Hooper Avenue
0.9 Jughandle at intersection of I-280 and Pleasant Valley Way
following Pleasant Valley Road
at power line: Western Branch:
to West Essex Park and Patriot Path to Morris County & Joseph G. Lurker
Park
O'Connor Memorial Park
crest of Second Watchung Mountain
at Ellison Avenue and Mt. Pleasant Avenue in West Orange; head north on Ellison
Avenue
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North section of South Mountain
Reservation: Mayapple Parking Area
5.2 The Crag (a stone overlook)
crest of the Second Watchung Mountain
4.0 cross Cherry Lane at intersection of South Orange Avenue and Cherry
Lane
footbridge overt Rahway River
3.6 paved park road and Tulip Springs parking area
3.4 bridge over South Orange Avenue
3.0 Hemlock Falls)
2.7 Ball's Bluff)
Mines Point
1.9 Beech Brook Cascades
1.3 Maple Falls Cascade
Washington Rock
plaque commemorating a Revolutionary War
battle
Crest Drive
First Watchung Mountains
South
Mountain Reservation south: Locust Grove Parking Area
Glen Avenue and Lackawanna Place
(opposite Millburn railroad station)
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Lenni Lenape Trail (west branch):
O'Connor Park
undeveloped Becker Tract
undeveloped West Essex Park along the Passaic River
from Eisenhower Parkway and Eagle Rock Avenue (at northwest corner)
west along Eagle Rock Avenue, along power line to Foulerton's Brook, to Charm
Acres
crosses Eagle Rock Avenue again to the Center for Environmental Studies (connectsa
with Patriots' Path).