Here is the list, I will just add info as I visit each park
Berkshire Valley Park- Location: 79 Mill Rd, Wharton
Dell Avenue Park -Location: 56 N. Dell Avenue, Kenvil
Emmans Park - Location: 75 Emmans Road, Ledgewood.
Horseshoe Lake Recreation Complex - Location: 72 Eyland Avenue, Succasunna.
---Already visited several times in the passed few years. It has a big playground area (imagination station), several soccer and baseball fields, a war memorial, a big gazebo, a lake with a beach, volleyball and basketball. I've walked and jogged around it a lot because it has markings every quarter of a mile. I think the whole perimeter is 1.5 miles. Bathrooms that are always unlocked when park is open. Benches all around, the nice ones are on the lake but opposite of the beach area. There is also a little bridge that goes out to an island- the lake is literally shaped like a horseshoe!
Kiwanis Park - Location: 9 Makin Lane, Succasunna
Ledgewood Park/Morris Canal Park - Location: Emmans Road, Ledgewood
Midland Park - Location: 9 Midland Road, Succasunna.
Mooney Mountain Park/Conkling Pond - Location: Intersection of Conkling Road and Kennedy Drive on Mooney Mountain in Flanders.
Nalron Park - Location: 67 Emmans Road, Ledgewood
Port Morris Park -Location: 23 Washington Street, Landing.
---Already visited several times, or I should say "rested at". This park is right around the corner from my house (it should be listed as Port Morris, not Landing!) so I've jogged/walked/biked by it several times. It has a big parking lot that leads to an area on Lake MuscaNetcong where I take jogging breaks. Inside the park is a decent baseball field, and a pretty crummy playground. I also rest on the swing sets sometimes though! No bathrooms.
Shore Hills Park - Location: 83 Vale Road, Landing.
Righter Road Fields (Succasunna Fields) - Location: 175 Righter Road, Succasunna.
Veteran's Park -Location: 45 Patricia Drive, Flanders.
--Visited Monday, Aug 30 around 4pm. Wow- I got totally lost! This is an interesting "park" although it is more like one marked trail and a bunch of unmarked trails through the woods on Mooney Mountain! You park right near this scary tower where the road ends with a bunch of Do Not Enter signs leading up to a lot by the creepy tower. There is a park map posted in the side of the road/field parking lot. It shows one blue trail that is .6 miles long going straight through the woods. I figured I'd just follow the trail to the end, then take it back for a nice quick 1.2 mile hike. But the park is full of unmarked trails! And of course I get a phone call so I'm hiking and talking and next thing you know I'm not on the blue trail- I'm who knows where?! I had bear bells on my feet to protect me, but I needed to find my way out. It was pretty heavily wooded, but I roamed on the trail hoping I would see something familiar or something that was marked as the blue trail again. I think I walked down Mooney Mt because I could see houses backyards with what I think was 206 in front of them. I knew worse case scenario I could walk through a yard to 206, but in the meantime I walked back up the mountain on the trails and started retracing my steps. I couldn't find the blue trail! I saw a field with Do Not Trespass signs posted but I went just a little ways and saw the tower. I knew my car was parked near so I crept around and finally came out to the road that I parked off of. It was about a 2 hour process, much longer than I planned to hike, but it was a cool place to explore, maybe just not alone so late in the afternoon!
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