Mills Reservation

Bonsal Preserve, South Mountain Reservation, Eagle Rock Reservation and Mills Reservation are all great spots for those looking to enjoy the weather as it gets crisp.

"Active logging in these parks would displace hikers, dog walkers, birdwatchers and even dirt bikers from being able to enjoy these wooded sanctuaries," Bill Beren writes.

Essex County has five reservations, including three that are in or close to Montclair, for hiking, bird-watching and taking in the scenery.

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news In early spring, a group of bird enthusiasts stand with binoculars in hand on top of round cement slab about the size of a small swimming pool nestled atop a 500-foot basalt ledge on a ridge at First Watchung Mountain in Montclair ...

by Elizabeth Oguss oguss@montclairlocal.news Once upon a time, this green and pleasant town was a treeless tundra where mastodons lumbered by the shores of Glacial Lake Passaic. New Jersey’s great fossil finds are to the west of us, but you can see something even older than an Ice Age fossil right here in Montclair: 200 million-year-old volcanic lava. Hard ...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The death of a mountain biker in Mills Reservation last week has been officially ruled an accident. After an investigation, the June 26 death of Wayne resident Kerry Rivera was ruled a sudden, accidental death, said Sgt...

The fatal cliff fall earlier this week at Mill Reservation has been ruled an accident, officials said Friday. Kerry Rivera, 49, of Wayne, was riding mountain bikes with his brother in the reservation on Monday when he lost control of his bicycle and fell over the cliff’s edge into a ravine near Old Quarry Road. Mill...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A Wayne man died in a fall on Monday, June 26, while mountain biking in Mills Reservation. Authorities say that Kerry Rivera, 49, and his brother were riding mountain bikes in the reservation around 9 a...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The man who died after falling over a cliff at Mills Reservation on Monday has been identified. Kerry Rivera, 49, a Wayne resident, was a firefighter for the Paterson Fire Department, the Essex County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Tuesday. T...