Help Clean Up West Caldwell’s ‘Hidden Park’

WEST CALDWELL, NJ — Community organizers are asking the Caldwells to help keep one of the area’s coolest “hidden parks” tidy during a volunteer cleanup event on Saturday, April 14.

According to the West Caldwell Environmental Commission, the cleanup event at Wrensch Park in West Caldwell will take place from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will meet in the rear of Cinar (old Friendly's) lot at 8:30 a.m.

Participants should bring boots and gloves and a rake or two, organizers said. Learn more here.

Nestled between Liddy and Melrose Place, the park is located on a nearly 13-acre property in West Caldwell and was purchased with some of the town's first Green Acres monies.

A magnet for birds and assorted wildlife, the park was previously owned by the Wrensch family of West Caldwell. Well-maintained and used by the family, the land was a nature-lover's habitat, complete with a small pond filled with water piped in from the active Campbell's Brook within the park.

• See related article: The Little Park That Could—Local Scouts Help Resurrect Wrensch

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Patch file photo: Wrensch Park

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