Husky Brook Park
Husky Brook Park is a welcoming and accessible community park featuring a paved circular main trail perfect for walking, running, biking, and scootering. It offers a playground with age-specific areas and soft, safe ground covering for children, picnic benches, a gazebo for shade, and informative plant plaques along the trails. Parking is available in a gravel lot and on a nearby side street. Although there are no permanent restrooms, a handicapped-accessible portable toilet is sometimes available. The park is ideal for families, fitness enthusiasts, and dog owners looking to enjoy a quiet, well-maintained outdoor space.
Reviews
About the restroom, this spring there is a Johnny-on-the-Spot which is also handicapped. April, 2019.
Husky Brook Park:
The main trail is circular and paved with asphalt, which is great for bike or scooter riding. You can stand in the middle of the circle and supervise your kids getting used to their bikes, or let older kids bike while the smaller ones play on the playground, because everyone will be in your sight and not far away at all.
Off the main trail is a shorter wooded trail loop that is gravelled and crosses Husky Brook (that’s where I took the picture), and a longer wooded trail that is cleared, but not paved. There are mile markers on the trails for the fitness-inclined.
Around all the trails are plantings of various indigenous trees, bushes and reeds, each with a plaque describing the plant and it’s traditional uses.
There is a playground, divided into areas for different aged players. It’s paved in that squishy ground covering (recycled tire material?). It has picnic and park benches, trash/recycling bins and a shady gazebo. The parking is a gravel lot, not large, but you can also park on the side street just west of the park.
The only drawback to this park is there are no toilet facilities. The nearest clean toilet is at QuikChek on Wyckoff Road. Also in the summer keep an eye out for wasps/yellow jackets near the playground; they also plague Wolcott Park. There are no swings at this park.
Other than those last things, this is an active park with great sightlines, most of the park is very vidible. It’s perfect for families with several younger children that like to wander, older kids practicing on wheels, and for people looking to walk or run without going deep in the woods or on a completely dull track. The field in the center is great for kite flying or pickup games, and the plant information on the trails is good for Scout Troop outings.
A great little park that you probably pass everyday on the way to the parkway. There is .8 miles of trails (due recently to an eagle scout project addition) playground and gazebo. It had been known as the Stella tract for some time, and the Stella family farm land across the street is in the process of becoming a connected community garden. With eatontown having a smaller park system; this addition really benefits local residents and due to it’s location road warriors seeking a quiet place for lunch.
LOVE this little park!! Quiet, has a nice path all the way around it that’s good for running, walking the dog, etc. A nice playground with some kind of soft ground so kids don’t get hurt when they fall.
It’s great for people.
With disabilities, even the Portage on is big enough for a wheelchair.