Teaneck Creek Park - run by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy - is a 46-acre area in Teaneck bounded by the Glenpointe Hotel to the east, Fycke Lane to the north, DeGraw Ave/Fort Lee Rd to the south, and behind whatever's on Teaneck Rd between DeGraw and Fycke to the west. Parking is in the back of the Puffin Foundation off Teaneck Rd on Puffin Way or the Glenpointe parking lot. There's also an entrance on Fycke Lane. The park has over 1.3 miles of groomed trails and some interesting ecological art exhibits amidst all the nature.
The park has been around almost 10 years, but I never got there until recently. Always looking for new old places to photograph, I found the following:
1. First impression of what the Conservancy conserves at the park: the last remaining pile of snow from this brutal past Winter.
2. This sign of Spring is actually very small, but the camera lets me get very close.
3. If Mother Nature ever lost her lunch, I think it would look like this.
4,5. From the outside and looking straight up from the inside
6,7. Wooden wildlife
8. Labyrinth sign
9-16.
The Five PipesFrom
http://teaneckcreek.org/ecoart.html :
These five-foot diameter concrete “monoliths” are thought to be drainage pipes left over from construction of the NJ Turnpike. In 2008 TCC commissioned muralist Eduardo Alexander Rabel to lead school children and volunteers in creating a pictorial history and future vision of Teaneck Creek Park. The five pipes were designated to represent historic eras: prehistory, European colonization during the 18th Century, industrialization of the 19th Century, the 20th Century, and the Future. The inside of the pipes depicted the human aspects of each era and the outside represented the environmental features or degradation associated with each time period.The Pipes have suffered some paint vandalism lately (#12), but the TCC is working to fix that. There are small holes on the outside of the pipes so you can peer inside to see some of what's there, but #14 - from the inside - looks like an unfortunate place to drill a hole.
17,18. Along Teaneck Creek on the eastern side of the park
19. The bridge over Teaneck Creek to the Glenpointe Hotel (in case you get tired from walking and need a bed to sleep in)
What I remember most about this area in the 1960s was a building with a company name printed on it in large letters: "JOHN R. FLICK". If you were coming down DeGraw/Fort Lee Rd from Teaneck Rd and you weren't facing it directly, the letters sort of ran together a bit and, well..............figure it out.
