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Glenfield Park (New Jersey)

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Glenfield Park, from the Maple Avenue side, looks like a collection of athletic fields with paths and trees between. There is more however. Behind the Playgrounds, Baseball diamonds, and tennis courts there is a forest with tall trees and thick ground cover. Through it goes paved and unpaved
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Glenfield Park is in southeastern Montclair, near the town line with Glen Ridge. It is Bordered in the south by Woodland Avenue, and in the West by Maple Avenue. On the East it is Bordered by
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In 1910, the land for the park was given by the township of Montclair to the Essex County Park system. The Park was then designed by the
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which cross the brook and connect walking paths, but one has been cordoned off and closed due to its deterioration.
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The area containing the brook, known as the Glen, is overgrown and is hard to navigate. There are a few small
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http://www.essex-countynj.org/p/index.php?section=parks/sites/gl&ImgLoc=images/gl
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community center with game rooms, meeting rooms, craft rooms, kitchen, and restrooms
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Index


Montclair
Glen Ridge
Coordinates
40°48′17″N 74°12′41″W / 40.80473°N 74.211273°W / 40.80473; -74.211273
Essex County
http://www.essex-countynj.org/p/index.php?section=parks/sites/gl&ImgLoc=images/gl
Montclair
Glen Ridge
Essex County
New Jersey
Glenfield Middle School
Essex County Park System
Olmsted Brothers
Toney's Brook
arch bridges
NJ Transit
Montclair-Boonton Line
Bloomfield Avenue
Essex County Parks
"Glenfield Park"
"Montclair Parks"
the original
Glenfield Park
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Essex County Park System
Parks
Anderson Park

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