Visit Hackensack, New Jersey - a City in Bergen County, NJ

Few would believe that over 15 acres of preserved woodlands over a couple of centuries old could exist within a stones throwing distance from the high rises of Prospect Avenue. The best access to Borg's Woods (named for John Borg, the founder of the Bergen Record) is from Fairmount Avenue one block west of Summit Avenue, although natural dirt trails also lead into the woods from Byrne Street in Hackensack and Woodland Avenue in Maywood. Visitors will find a largely unspoiled woodland filled with large trees, wetlands, and diverse wildlife. A trail system exists, but its primary deficiency is two very muddy wetland crossings that deter all but the hardiest of users from walking the trails in a loop fashion through the site. The Main trail is a remnant of a larger trail system which existed before Route 4 and is rumored to be of Native American origin.

A story in Weird NJ stated that in these woods was an old house - known as the Mummy House to some - long ago abandoned. As kids during the 70's & 80's, he and his friends heard rumors of ghostly figure at the windows. When they approached the house, someone rattled the doors from inside. You get the picture. The woods had been in the news for an etirely different purpose for a long time. Had it not been for the efforts of Eric Martindale and others with him the woods would have given away to a condominium development project in the mid 1980's by Macromedia, Inc. who owned the woods at that time. Appeals went on for years and after a nine year battle the Bergen County purchased the 14.2 acres in 1994 to set aside as parkland. Due to the lack of a balanced park management approach, measures by the county continue to threaten the fragile ecosystem.

There have been recent (June 2011) reports that a family of coyotes have made the woods their home. If you plan on visiting the woods it would be a good idea to carry something that would make a lot of noise. The idea is to encourage coyotes not to get comfortable around people. It is advisable not to take pets into the woods and not to leave behind any food for these wild animals. If you spot one of these animals use a loud voice, make noise, act with confidence to establish dominance.