Mountain Lakes is a commuter railroad station in the borough of Mountain Lakes, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Serviced by New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line, the station is the first/last station after the Morristown Line merges/diverges at Denville station. The station consists of one low-level side platform, servicing a solo track. A station depot, built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, is located in the parking lot, currently serving as a restaurant known as "The Station at Mountain Lakes".
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Location | 99 Midvale Road, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046 | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°53′09″N 74°26′01″W / 40.8859°N 74.4336°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | NJ Transit | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Station code | 31 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
Fare zone | 14[2] | ||||||||||||
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Opened | November 10, 1912[3] | ||||||||||||
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2017 | 17 (average weekday)[4][5] | ||||||||||||
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Part of | Mountain Lakes Historic District (ID05000963[6]) | ||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | September 7, 2005 |
Mountain Lakes station opened on November 10, 1912, replacing the former Fox Hill station located east of U.S. Route 46 in Denville, which had been on the freight-only Boonton Branch since 1870.
Mountain Lakes station was first served by Delaware, Lackawanna and Western trains in 1869, when the freight-only Boonton Branch was constructed via Paterson to bypass the passenger Morris & Essex Railroad.[citation needed]
In 1912, the DL&W built a new station to replace the old Fox Hill station, breaking ground in May and opening in November.[7]
This building is on the Morris County Inventory of Historic Sites.[8] It is also part of the Mountain Lakes Historic District, which was created by the New Jersey State Historical Preservation Office on July 22, 2005,[9] and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 2005.
Mountain Lakes has one low-level platform.
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