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Mountain Lakes

Mountain Lakes, Italy

Mountain Lakes is a commuter railroad station in the borough of Mountain Lakes, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The station is on New Jersey Transit's Montclair–Boonton Line, the last before the line merges with the Morristown Line at Denville station to the west. The station has one low-l

evel side platform, serving a solo track. The 1912-built William Hull Botsford station depot stands on the single platform, along with an ornate station shelter. The next station to the east of Mountain Lakes is Boonton. The Mountain Lakes station opened on November 10, 1912, replacing the former station at Fox Hill on Newark Turnpike (modern-day U.S. Route 46), which itself was part of the original Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch, which opened on September 5, 1867. Herbert Hapgood, the developer of Mountain Lakes, and local residents requested in 1912 to construct a new station in the Mountain Lakes development. The station is part of the Mountain Lakes Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places designation.

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