The Verona Environmental Commission (VEC) placed this geocache along the municipal Peckman Trail, near the Peckman River, a tributary of the Passaic River in Essex and Passaic Counties, NJ.
The trail is maintained by the VEC and community volunteers. Every year volunteers donate their time to clean up the river and the woods and plant trees, helping to keep our waterways and trails safe and healthy for wildlife and for people. Hikers come across deer and often see rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, raccoons, and an occasional owl or fox.
Trees include Red and Silver Maple, Canadian Serviceberry, River Birch, Black Walnut, Sycamore, Spice Bush, Red and Swamp White Oak among others.The river carry catfish, trout, shad, striper and muskellunge.
The Peckman River originates in West Orange and flows northeasterly through Verona, Cedar Grove and Little Falls to its confluence with the Passaic River in Woodland Park.