THE TOP TEN THINGS TO DO IN MORRIS COUNTY IN APRIL!
Gardens and Farms
1. Wightman's Farms, 1111 Mount Kemble Avenue, Morristown, 973.425.0840,
www.wightmansfarms.com
2. Alstede's Farm, 86 County Road 513, Chester, 908.879.7189, www.alstedesfarm.com
3. Valley Shepherd Creamery,
50 Fairmount Road, Long Valley, 908.876.3200
www.valleyshepherd.com
See pastures of ewes and lambs. Watch sheep being milked on a special rotational platform, and see how they make their Farmersville Cheeses. Visit the Sheep Shoppe for gifts and goodies or take a hayride to their cheese aging cave in the hillside of Long Valley.
4. The Cross Estate Gardens are located on the , site of the New Jersey Brigade Unit of Morristown National Historical Park, on Old Jockey Hollow Road in Bernardsville, NJ. The Gardens are open from dawn to dusk. Parking is free, and there are no entry fees. The early twentieth-century landscape of the Cross Estate, characteristic of the Arts and Crafts period, includes a formal perennial garden, a wisteria-covered pergola, a mountain laurel allee, and a garden of native plants. 973.543.4030
5. Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 53 East Hanover Avenue, Whippany, 973.326.7600 www.morrisparks.net
Collections of cherries, magnolias, crabapples, dogwoods and hollies. The 127 acre tract is also known for its
many beautiful gardens and is wheelchair accessible.
6. Willowwood Arboretum, Longview Road, Chester, 973.326.7600, www.morrisparks.net
This 130 acres of rolling farm land in a shallow valley has about 3,500 kinds of native and exotic plant on an
historic farm.
7. Stony Hill Gardens, County Route 513, Chester, www.stonyhillgardens.com
8. Ashley Farms, 25 Hillside Avenue, Flanders, 973.584.7578, www.buyfreshnwj.org
9. Cedar Gate Farm, 102 Parks Road, Denville, www.cedargatefarmnj.com
Fresh Farm Eggs!
10. Florence & Robert Zuck Arboretum, on the grounds of Drew University, Route 124 Madison
www.drew.edu
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