East County Park is a public park in

Warren A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...

Somerset County, New Jersey Somerset County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States Census, the county's population was 345,361, an increase of 21,917 (6.8%) from the 323,444 counted at the 2010 U.S Cen ...

. It is operated by the Somerset County Park Commission. The park was created after the County bought four parcels of farmland between 1997 and 2001.mycentraljersey.com:East County Park: Beautiful or waste of money? Oct. 16, 2017
/ref> It contains 150 acres with woods and meadows. At the center is a half-mile trail covered with stone looping around a pond.

Cory's Brook Cory's Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River that has its source in Warren, New Jersey and forms the boundary of Union County, New Jersey. The brook forms a pond at the East County Park in Warren Township. See also *List of New Jersey rive ...

flows through the park and is a tributary of the

Passaic River Passaic River ( ) is a river, approximately long, in Northern New Jersey. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, ...

. Side trails branch off the loop. The park has a leash-free dog area. An asphalted trail links the loop to the athletic fields with a bathroom facility.

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* {{coord, 40.636, -74.493, type:landmark_globe:earth_region:US-NJ, display=title County parks in New Jersey Parks in Somerset County, New Jersey Warren Township, New Jersey Cultural infrastructure completed in 2001 1997 establishments in New Jersey