HISTORY OF THE RAMAPO MOUNTAINS   
 Ramapo State Forest
Pool Hollow Road and Ramapo Park
plus Tower and Golf Course
Passengers would take the train from Paterson, N.J. to Oakland, N.J. They would get off the train at West Oakland Ave. at Pool Hollow Road (The house at the road entrance was the GATE HOUSE to the private road.) They would be meet at the train station and be driven up there home at Ramapo Park ( Skyline Drive didn't exist at that time). Route # 287 has cut off Pool Hollow Road (Yellow Trail) so it has been diverted to join the Cannonball Trail, which continues over Route # 287 via a foot bridge.  The yellow trail then seperates on the right and continues to it's original destination.
There is a partially overgrown field (on the right) as you enter the road from the upper parking lot. (located on Skyline Drive) This was the Golf Course. There is a Stone Lookout Tower on the road, ( on private property) built during the depression (by the C.C.C.) that was used as a lookout tower during world War II.