Places
An A–Z index of the places covered in the history of Kinnelon and Smoke Rise, New Jersey, each linked to its sourced page.
| Bear Rock | One of NJ's largest erratics, brooding over a swamp near old stone walls. | Visit: Bear Rock, Pyramid Mountain |
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| Charlotteburg | Before the lakes and the gates, these hills made iron — the Great Charlotteburg Furnace Tract. | Visit: Charlotteburg (Pequannock) Reservoir |
| Fayson Lakes | The old Fredericks farm — one of Morris County's oldest homesteads — and the three lakes the Fays built on it. | |
| Kakeout Reservoir | A New Deal lake the WPA built on Miller Road's shoulder by damming Stone House Brook — and still the source of Butler's drinking water nearly ninety years on. | Visit: Kakeout Reservoir |
| Kinnelon | Charlotteburg, the ironlands, and a borough named for a tobacco baron's estate, incorporated in 1922. | |
| Lake Reality | Once Tony's Pond — and the one Kinnelon lake open to the whole borough. | |
| Our Lady of the Magnificat | A stone tribute chapel at 2 Miller Road that grew, across the decades, into a full parish — a school, a convent, a cemetery, and a church. | |
| Pyramid Mountain | Glaciers, outlaws, and the grassroots fight that saved it. | Visit: Pyramid Mountain & Tripod Rock |
| Silas Condict Park | A patriot's name, a Prohibition speakeasy by a lake, and a thousand acres held in common. | Visit: Silas Condict County Park |
| Smoke Rise | The land where the smoke rises — a tobacco fortune, a Tiffany chapel, and a community that chose to stay wild. | |
| St. Hubert's Chapel | The stone chapel Francis Kinney built on a Lake Kinnelon island for his wife Mary — Kinnelon's first Catholic church, and Tiffany's first liturgical commission. | Visit: St. Hubert's Chapel, Lake Kinnelon |
| Things to do | Hiking, glacial geology, birding, the NYC-skyline overlook, the visitor center. | Visit: Pyramid Mountain Visitor Center, 472 Boonton Ave, Montville NJ |
| Trails | The current official Morris County trail roster — blazes, distances, terrain. | Visit: Pyramid Mountain Visitor Center, 472 Boonton Ave, Montville NJ |
| Tripod Rock | The ~127-tonne erratic on three stones — and the solstice legend, told honestly. | Visit: Tripod Rock, Pyramid Mountain |