Pines Lake, New Jersey
| Pines Lake, New Jersey | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Pines Lake, New Jersey
Pines Lake, New Jersey
Pines Lake, New Jersey
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| Coordinates: 40°59′30″N 74°15′44″W / 40.99167°N 74.26222°WCoordinates: 40°59′30″N 74°15′44″W / 40.99167°N 74.26222°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 New Jersey
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| County | Passaic |
| Township | Wayne |
| Elevation | 246 ft (75 m) |
| ZIP code | 07470 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0882022 |
Pines Lake is a unincorporated community on a lake in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. Pines Lake was started in the 1920s as a vacation community around a man-made lake approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. Many of the original homes were modified log cabins. A large number of these log cabins, built of American chestnut in the 1930s, are still occupied as year-round homes. Gradually the neighborhood became approximately 500 high end to moderate suburban homes. It has a grammar school, Pines Lake School and its residents can send their high school aged children to Wayne Hills High School.
An interesting feature of the lake is the one lane road that passes over the dam, giving a view down into "the Glen", a steep sided ravine which is maintained as a park. There are rare tiger salamanders and native ferns. Marine fossils have occasionally been found in the Glen and on properties surrounding the lake. An undeveloped area near the southern end of the lake has long been believed to contain an Indian burial ground.
The Lenni-Lenape lived in the area of Pines Lake prior to European settlement. Stone mounds and other signs of the Lenni-Lenape are visible in the forests and the undeveloped areas around Pines Like.
Despite its name, there are very few natural pine trees around Pines Lake. The area is mostly forested in black oak, white oak, and red oak along with flowering dogwoods and American beech. There are groves of mature Eastern hemlocks that may have been mistaken for pine trees. The Glen is forested with mature oaks, hemlocks, and beech, including American sycamores along the stream banks.
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