Editing Union County, New Jersey (section)

==Parks and recreation==
[[File:Warinanco boathouse jeh.JPG|thumb|[[Warinanco Park]] in [[Roselle, New Jersey|Roselle]]]]
County parks are maintained and operated by the Union County Department of Parks and Recreation, the successor agency to the Union County Park Commission.

===County-run parks===
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ucnj.org/parks-activities/|title=Parks, Activities, Locations & Maps|date=June 6, 2014|website=County of Union, New Jersey|language=en-US|access-date=April 9, 2020}}</ref>
*Ash Brook Reservation, Scotch Plains
*[[Rahway River Parkway|Black Brook Park]], Kenilworth
*Briant Park, Summit<ref>[https://www.cityofsummit.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/612 ''Environmental Resource Inventory''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216171109/https://www.cityofsummit.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/612 |date=February 16, 2017 }}, City of Summit, 2011. Accessed October 23, 2017.</ref><ref name="ucnj.org">[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Hidden-Valley-Park-Houdaille-Quarry.pdf Map of Hidden Valley Park and Houdaille Quarry], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed October 23, 2017.</ref>
*Brookside Park, Scotch Plains
[[File:Shakespeare Garden, Cedar Brook Park, NJ.jpg|thumb|Shakespeare Garden at [[Cedar Brook Park]], Plainfield]]
*[[Cedar Brook Park]], Plainfield
**Home to the Shakespeare Garden.
*[[Rahway River Parkway|Echo Lake Park]], Westfield and Mountainside
**The privately owned [[Echo Lake Country Club]] donated the parkland for this park in the 1920s. The name arises from the echo heard off the high bluff on the far side of the lake. Echo Lake itself was created by damning when mills were established on [[Rahway River Parkway|Nomahegan Brook]], a tributary of the [[Rahway River]]. The [[Great Minisink Trail]] passed by Echo Lake Park.
*[[Elizabeth River Parkway]]
*Esposito Park, Clark
**Features a 1/2-mile path with exercise equipment and a skate park
*Green Brook Park, Plainfield (partial)
*Hidden Valley Park, Springfield and Summit<ref>City of Summit. https://www.cityofsummit.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/612 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216171109/https://www.cityofsummit.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/612 |date=February 16, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="ucnj.org" />
**Eastern border is adjacent to the now-closed Houdaille Quarry.
*[[Houdaille Quarry]], Springfield (closed to public)
*Kawameeh Park, Union
*[[Rahway River Parkway|Lenape Park]], Cranford, Westfield, and Kenilworth
**In the 1930s, workers digging Lenape Lake found [[mastodon]] bones here.
*Madison Avenue Park, Rahway
**Adjacent to Rahway 7th and 8th Grade Academy

[[File:Mattano Park from 5th St bridge jeh.jpg|thumb|Mattano Park]]
*[[Robinson's Branch Reservoir|Clark Reservoir Recreation Area]]
*Mattano Park, Elizabeth
**Named for a [[Lenape]] tribal leader, whose name was recorded by colonists as Mattano. In 1664, a group called the Elizabethtown Associates bought land in the Union County area from Mattano and another Lenape leader named Warinanco.
*McConnell Park, Cranford
**Named for the first town doctor in Cranford
*Milton Lake Park, Clark and Rahway
*Mindowaskin Park, Westfield
*[[Rahway River Parkway|Nomahegan Park]], Cranford
** Contains Nomahegan Park Pond and encircles the Rahway River.[[File:Lake near Union County College Cranford NJ.jpg|thumb|Nomahegan Pond near [[Union County College]] in [[Cranford, New Jersey|Cranford]]]]
*Oak Ridge Park, Clark
*[[Passaic River Parkway]],<ref>[https://www.cityofsummit.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/612 Environmental Resource Inventory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216171109/https://www.cityofsummit.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/612 |date=February 16, 2017 }}, [[Summit, New Jersey|City of Summit]]. Accessed June 11, 2018.</ref><ref name="ucnj.org"/> Berkeley Heights, New Providence, and Summit
*Phil Rizzuto Park, Elizabeth
*Ponderosa Farm Park, Scotch Plains
*[[Rahway River Parkway|Rahway River Park]], Rahway
**Environmental groups protested at the building of a stadium here in 2016. The movement gave birth to Friends of Rahway River Parkway.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rahwayriverparkway.org/historic-olmsted-design.html |title=Historic Olmsted Design - Friends of Rahway River Parkway |access-date=May 26, 2017 |archive-date=November 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108052349/http://www.rahwayriverparkway.org/historic-olmsted-design.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Rahway River Parkway]]
*Snyder Avenue Park, Berkeley Heights
*Sperry Park, Cranford
*Stanley Avenue Park, Summit
*Tamaques Park, Scotch Plains
*Unami Park, Cranford, Garwood, and Westfield
*Washington Avenue Park, Springfield
*[[Watchung Reservation]], Mountainside and Scotch Plains
*[[Warinanco Park]], Elizabeth and Roselle
**Named for the Native American known as "Warinanco."  Designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm.
*Wheeler Park, Linden

===Other notable parks===
Parks that are not managed by the county government include:
*[[Hawk Rise Sanctuary]].  A bird sanctuary was built in 2012 on the banks of [[Rahway River]] in [[Linden, New Jersey|Linden]]. Hawk Rise Sanctuary is a 95-acre ecological preserve and wetland complex in Linden in an area previously concealed by various industrial land uses. Its trails were created adjacent to the former Linden Landfill area by the [[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]], the city of [[Linden, New Jersey|Linden]] and the [[New Jersey Audubon Society]].<ref name="njaudubon.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.njaudubon.org/SectionHawkRiseSanctuary/Introduction.aspx |title=Hawk Rise Introduction |access-date=May 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527082528/http://www.njaudubon.org/SectionHawkRiseSanctuary/Introduction.aspx |archive-date=May 27, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The trails in the Hawk Rise forest are boardwalk, with some continuing as gravel along the edge of the former Linden Landfill. It has an overlook area where hikers can view the Rahway River and nearby [[marshes]]. It has been open to the public since 2012. The site includes diverse environments: forested [[wetland]]s, [[vernal pools]], [[grasslands]], shrublands, [[salt marsh]], [[mudflats]], a [[pond]], and the tidal Rahway River. 163 bird species have been spotted there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ebird.org/content/nj/news/birds-of-lindens-hawk-rise-sanctuary/|title = Birds of Linden's Hawk Rise Sanctuary - New Jersey eBird}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.linden-nj.org/featured/pdf/Hawk-Rise-Survey-Results.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223070633/http://www.linden-nj.org/featured/pdf/Hawk-Rise-Survey-Results.pdf |archive-date=December 23, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  It has been reported as vandalized.<ref name="njaudubon.org"/> 
*[[Reeves-Reed Arboretum]] in Summit.<ref>[https://www.reeves-reedarboretum.org/discover/#hist History], [[Reeves-Reed Arboretum]]. Accessed October 25, 2017.</ref>
*Kennedy Reservation in Union.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tapinto.net/towns/union/sections/government/articles/community-meeting-set-for-kennedy-reservation-dis|title=Community Meeting Set for Kennedy Reservation Discussion|website=TAPinto}}</ref>
*The grounds of [[Liberty Hall (New Jersey)|Liberty Hall]] Museum near the campus of [[Kean University]] in Union and Elizabeth.

===Rahway River Parkway===
The [[Rahway River Parkway]] is a greenway of parkland that hugs the [[Rahway River]] and its tributaries, such as Nomahegan Brook.  It was the inaugural project of the Union County Parks Commission designed in the 1920s by the [[Olmsted Brothers]] firm, who were the sons of landscape architect [[Frederick Law Olmsted]]. Several county and municipal parks run along the Rahway River.<ref>[http://ucnj.org/parks-recreation/paths-trails-greenways/walking-paths/rahway-river/ Rahway River], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed January 3, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1IZoeuM_bupCuWaWp_5bUciz2r0Q Parks along the Rahway River Parkway], Google Maps. Accessed January 3, 2017.</ref>

===Elizabeth River Parkway===
The Elizabeth River Parkway is a greenway of parkland alongside the [[Elizabeth River (New Jersey)|Elizabeth River]] and its tributaries. It runs through [[Kean University]] and [[Liberty Hall Museum]] on the river's way to the [[Arthur Kill]]. The Elizabeth River Parkway is broken down into separate sections.

*Chatfield/Zimmerman - Hillside and Union Township<ref>[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Zimmerman-Park.pdf Zimmerman Park], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed December 22, 2016.</ref>
*Lightning Brook - Hillside and Union<ref>[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lightning-Brook-Section.pdf Lightning Brook Section], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed December 22, 2016.</ref>
*[[File:Galloping Hill Golf Course in November 2022.jpg|alt=Galloping Hill Golf Course in November 2022|thumb|Galloping Hill Golf Course in November 2022]]Pruden/Pearl Oval - Elizabeth<ref>[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Pruden-Section.pdf Pruden Section], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed December 22, 2016.</ref>
*Salem/Rutgers/Liberty - Hillside and Union<ref>[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Salem-Section-1.pdf Salem Section], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed December 22, 2016.</ref>
*Woodruff/Conant Street - Hillside and Union<ref>[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Conant-Park.pdf Conant Park], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed December 22, 2016.</ref>
*Ursino - Hillside and Union Township<ref>[http://ucnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ursino-Park.pdf Ursino Section], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed December 22, 2016.</ref>

===Public golf courses===
Union County's Division of Golf Operations runs two golf courses, which offer golf lessons and practice areas.<ref>[http://ucnj.org/parks-recreation/golf/ Golf], Union County, New Jersey. Accessed January 3, 2017.</ref>
*Ash Brook Golf Course in Scotch Plains.
*[[Galloping Hill Golf Course]] and Golf Learning Center in Kenilworth.<ref>[http://www.gallopinghillgolfcourse.com/ Home Page], [[Galloping Hill Golf Course]]. Accessed January 3, 2017.</ref> The facility, which hosts the headquarters of the New Jersey State Golf Association, hosted the 2016 [[New Jersey State Open]] golf tournament, the first public golf course to host the tournament since it was established in 1921.<ref>Levin, Eric. [https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/sports/galloping-hill-promise-fulfilled/ "At Galloping Hill, a Promise Fulfilled; After eight years of renovation and preparation, Galloping Hill in Kenilworth becomes the first public golf course to host the New Jersey State Open. 'There is no better golf course in the state of New Jersey,' says winner Tyler Hall."], ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', July 13, 2016. Accessed January 3, 2017. "The capper, though, is that the complete renovation of the course and the upgrading of the entire facility convinced the New Jersey State Golf Association to move its headquarters into the new clubhouse and, more importantly, commit to Galloping Hill as the site of the 2016 New Jersey State Open."</ref>

'''Another notable course'''

*Shady Rest Country Club <ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://shadyrestcountryclub.com/shady-rest/|title=Shady Rest Country Club|website=shadyrestcountryclub.com}}</ref> in Scotch Plains is recognized as the ''first'' African-American owned and operated golf clubhouse in the United States.  As such, Shady Rest is the home course of the first African-American golf professional to play in the U.S. Open, John Matthew Shippen, Jr. (1879-1968), who is considered a pioneer of the sport.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/shippen-john-matthew-jr-1879-1968/|title=John Matthew Shippen, Jr. (1879-1968) •|date=February 21, 2011}}</ref>  Originally a private club and center for African-American social life, the township acquired and renamed it in the 1930s as the 'Scotch Hills Country Club' and made it open to the public. The history and significance of the course and clubhouse has not always been promoted as a place of national historic interest.  Thankfully, the National Park Service has listed the Shady Rest Golf and Country Club (_100007869) in the National Registry of Historic Places, in large part due to the efforts of the Preserve Shady Rest Committee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scotchplainsnj.gov/index.php/news/766-shady-rest-golf-and-country-club-joins-national-register-of-historic-places|title=Township of Scotch Plains, NJ - Shady Rest Golf and Country Club Joins National Register of Historic Places|website=scotchplainsnj.gov}}</ref>  The committee continues working to further solidify Shady Rest as a local, state, and national landmark given its historical significance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pnj10most.org/|title=** Preservation New Jersey's Ten Most Endangered Historic Sites of 2009 **|website=pnj10most.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/weekly-list-2022-07-08.htm|title=Weekly List 2022 07 08 - National Register of Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service)|website=www.nps.gov}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>

===Private golf courses===
*[[Baltusrol Golf Club]] is a private 36-[[Golf course#Anatomy of a golf course|hole]] [[Golf club (institution)|golf club]] in Springfield founded in 1895 by [[Louis Keller]]. Both courses were originally designed by [[A. W. Tillinghast]] in 1918. The club has hosted seven [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Opens]] and the [[2005 PGA Championship|2005]] and [[2016 PGA Championship|2016]] [[PGA Championship]]s.<ref>[https://www.baltusrol.org/club/scripts/public/public.asp?GRP=23554&NS=PUBLIC About Us / Guest Info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711094925/https://www.baltusrol.org/club/scripts/public/public.asp?GRP=23554&NS=PUBLIC |date=July 11, 2017 }}, [[Baltusrol Golf Club]]. Accessed October 25, 2017.</ref>
*[[Echo Lake Country Club]] is a private, member-owned country club located in Westfield, founded in 1899. The 18-hole golf course was designed by [[Donald Ross (golfer)|Donald Ross]] in 1913.<ref>[https://www.echolakecc.org/club The Club] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026162659/https://www.echolakecc.org/club |date=October 26, 2017 }}, [[Echo Lake Country Club]]. Accessed October 25, 2017.</ref>
*Hyatt Hills Golf Complex in Clark
*[[Shackamaxon Country Club]]
*[[Suburban Golf Club]]

===Other recreational facilities===
[[File:Feltville NJ.JPG|thumb|[[Feltville Historic District|Deserted Village of Feltville]]]]

*Clark Community Pool<ref>[http://www.ourclark.com/departments/swim-pool-utility Clark Pool General Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408120918/http://www.ourclark.com/departments/swim-pool-utility |date=April 8, 2015 }}, Clark Township. Accessed October 25, 2017.</ref>
*Centennial Avenue Pool in [[Cranford, NJ]]
*Oak Ridge Archery Range
*Orange Avenue Pool in Cranford, NJ
*Trailside Nature and Science Center at [[Watchung Reservation]]
*Warinanco Ice Skating Rink
*Wheeler Park
*Westfield Memorial Pool
*Spray Pool – Wheeler Park (Linden)
*County Pool – Rahway River Park (Rahway)