Pines Lake, New Jersey
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Pines Lake is a lake community in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. Pines Lake was started as a vacation community around a man-made lake approximately 1.5 miles long and a half mile wide in the 1940s. Many of the original homes were modified log cabins. Gradually the neighborhood became approximately 500 high end to moderate suburban homes. It has a grammar school, Pines Lake School and its residents can send their high school aged children to Wayne Hills High School.
An interesting feature of the lake is the one lane road that passes over the dam, giving a view down into "the Glen", a steep sided ravine which is maintained as a park. There are rare tiger salamanders and native ferns. Marine fossils have occasionally been found in the Glen and on properties surrounding the lake. An undeveloped area near the southern end of the lake has long been believed to contain an Indian burial ground.
Despite its name, there are very few natural pine trees around Pines Lake. The area is mostly forested in black oak, white oak, and red oak along with flowering dogwoods and American beech. There are groves of mature Eastern hemlocks that may have been mistaken for pine trees. The Glen is forested with mature oaks, hemlocks, and beech, including American sycamores along the stream banks.
Pines Lake has several community beaches on the lake and an active community life, centered around swimming, tennis, and sailboating. The lake is stocked with largemouth bass, sunfish, and Northern pike--although seasonal partial drainings of the lake during winter for dam maintenance have damaged fishing. The lake supports flocks of mallards, coots, swans and other ducks, herons, and waterfowl. On the weekend nearest July 4 each year a community celebration is held, including the "Baby" Parade -- a costume parade for children walking, on decorated bicycles, and on home made floats -- culminating in a beachside picnic.
[edit] External links
- Pines Lake Womens' Club
- Aerial View of Pines Lake, Pines Lake is on the right side of the photograph right of the lake with the bridge crossing it (which is Pompton Lake)
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