Woodbourne Park is located on Corner of Berry Rd & Sherman Ridge Rd in Wantage NJ.
DESCRIPTION: A sprawling, full-sun playground with a variety of sports fields, playthings, and a walking path.
DIRECTIONS: Take Rte 15 seven miles north of Sparta and then follow CR-565/Ross Corner-Sussex Rd to the right for another 4.8 miles. Make a left onto Beemer Church Rd/CR-637, go 3/10 of a mile, then turn right onto Pidgeon Hill Rd. After three miles, turn left onto Berry Rd. Follow signs for the park entrance.
PICNICKING: Six picnic tables
CLIMBING: Stairs, steps
PLAYTHINGS: Storefront, monocular, balance beam
SLIDES: One toddler, one tube, one covered corkscrew
SPORTS: Two softball fields, three baseball fields, one full basketball court
SWINGS: Two toddler, four full size
WALKING PATHS: No-bike walking path, partly shaded, in rear
OTHER COOL STUFF: Two bouncy platforms, shuffleboard, sand volleyball, football, port-a-johns
MAKE A DAY OF IT: Check out Wantage Dog park less than a mile down the road from the park entrance if you’ve got four-footed friends, or cool off at the Branchville Sussex Library.
For more playgrounds in Wantage, click here. For more playgrounds in Sussex County, check these listings!
Beautiful park and paths. Was visiting the area and was fortunate to be able to spend an hour walking and jogging the paths here. Could you tell me the distance of both the front and back walkways? Thank you!
From the Wantage Twp website:
Take a Walk Around Woodbourne Park
How far did I go?
Roughly speaking, the original loop of the walking path (walking from the parking lot closest to Sherman Ridge Road, around the three ball fields, around the skating rink, up to the cul-de-sac and back to the parking lot) is about 3,400 feet.
A half mile would be 2,640 feet; three quarters of a mile would be 3,960 feet, so this trek is between a half mile and 3/4 mile in distance. The new walking path that connects the original part of the park to the new part of the park is about 550 feet. If you walk the new connecting roadway instead of the walking path, it is a little longer – about 800 feet from the cul-de-sac to the new little league field.
The new loop in the back of the park is about 2,800 feet, making it just a little over a half mile.
One whole loop would be 7,350 feet +/-. A mile and a half would be 7,920 feet, so starting at the cul-de-sac, one complete loop and then continuing again on the new walking path from the cul-de-sac to the new little league field in the back of the park (just past the brook) would be pretty close to a mile-and-a-half. Ideally, Wantage Township will open the gates of both Woodbourne Park and Lott Road fields when our DPW employees begin work; depending on the time of the year, the DPW workday will begin at either 6:30 a.m. or 7 a.m.