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Kings Pond Park, including the associated Gypsy Pond Park, is a public,
municipal park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorpora ...
spanning close to the entire length of Goffle Brook through the village of Ridgewood in Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the List of counties in New Jersey, most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.- Ridgewood Wildscape, locations
Accessed October 4, 2009. and one of the larger wooded areas along the lower Bergen-Passaic border.
Kings Pond Park forms a forested greenway extending from just south of CR 87 Lake Ave at the Midland Park border to just north of Rock Rd at the Hawthorne/
. Accessed October 25, 2009. and fishing and canoeing in the summer. Additionally, a grassy field covers much of the west bank of Kings Pond along Lakeview Drive.
Village of Ridgewood Division of Parks, Shade Tree, and School Grounds
Parks in New Jersey Parks in Bergen County, New Jersey
Accessed October 4, 2009. and one of the larger wooded areas along the lower Bergen-Passaic border.
Description
Kings Pond Park forms a forested greenway extending from just south of CR 87 Lake Ave at the Midland Park border to just north of Rock Rd at the Hawthorne/Passaic County
Passaic County ( or ) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the county was the state's eighth-most-populous county,
border. Technically, Kings Pond Park is really two parks, ''Kings Pond Park'', surrounding Kings Pond in north, and ''Gypsy Pond Park'', encircling its namesake pond in the south. The main entrance to the park is on the east side of Lakeview Drive, but there are additional entrances, including a path running from the end of McKinley Place (off of nearby Mountain Ave). Another entrance is found along the Hawthorne border where an unmarked driveway enters the park from Rock Road, following the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway , also referred to as the Susie-Q or the Susquehanna, and formerly the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, is an American Railroad classes#Class II, Class II Rail freight transport, freight r ...
.
The main feature of the park is a nature trail which extends nearly a mile across the park's length. Other recreational opportunities primarily involve the park's two ponds and include ice skating in the winterVillage of Ridgewood Division of Parks, Shade Tree, and School Grounds. Accessed October 25, 2009. and fishing and canoeing in the summer. Additionally, a grassy field covers much of the west bank of Kings Pond along Lakeview Drive.
Wildlife
Forty species of birds reside in Kings Pond Park, including many common species of ducks and Canada geese. In the forest,bracken fern
Bracken (''Pteridium'') is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Ferns (Pteridophyta) are vascular plants that undergo alternation of generations, having both large plants that produce spores and small plants that produ ...
is a prominent ground plant. Another plant commonly seen growing along the railroad bed is pinxter flower, or pink azalea (''Rhododendron periclymenoides''). Herbs such as wild garlic and mustard also grow throughout the park.
See also
* Goffle Brook Park, which follows Goffle Brook through most of the neighboring borough of HawthorneReferences
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Village of Ridgewood Division of Parks, Shade Tree, and School Grounds
Parks in New Jersey Parks in Bergen County, New Jersey