South Mountain Reservation

South Mountain Reservation, covering between 2,047 and 2,112 acres, depending on the source, is a nature reserve on the Rahway River that is part of the Essex County Park System in northeastern New Jersey.

Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Greenwood Gardens.

Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Hospital

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Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, formerly Saint Barnabas Medical Center, is a 597-bed non-profit major teaching hospital located in Livingston, New Jersey.

Greenwood Gardens

Garden

Greenwood Gardens is a 28-acre formal Italianate garden located in Short Hills in Essex County, New Jersey. It is located at 274 Old Short Hills Rd, Short Hills, NJ 07078.

Turtle Back Zoo

Zoo

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Turtle Back Zoo is a zoo in West Orange, New Jersey. Situated on 20 acres in the South Mountain Reservation, it is part of the South Mountain Recreation Complex, which is managed as part of the Essex County Park System, the oldest county park system in the United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maplewood and Short Hills.

Maplewood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Maplewood is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is an inner-ring suburban bedroom community of New York City in the New York metropolitan area.

Short Hills

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Short Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place situated within Millburn, in Essex County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey, and part of the New York metropolitan area.