Highways of Bergen County, New Jersey

County Road 30

Bergen County Road 30, Park Avenue, was cut through in the 1860s as a carriage path direct from the Boiling Springs station on the Erie Railroad to Valley Brook Park, a horse racing track on a site now occupied by Riverside County Park (North). The Boiling Springs station was renamed Rutherford station after the Borough of Rutherford was formed in 1881.

The road is correctly inventoried from west to east, even though residents commonly refer to it as a north-south road and it serves as the dividing line between east and west in Rutherford.

Mile Street Name Feature (West to East)
0.00 CR 30 BEGINS, Lyndhurst Twp
0.00 Park Ave Riverside Ave, CR 507 {signal}

Eastbound (though the locals would call it northbound) at the Lackawanna tracks.
0.39 Park Ave Lackawanna Railroad {underpass}
0.66 Entering Rutherford Boro
0.66 Park Ave Rutherford Ave, CR S-30 / Stuyvesant Ave {signal}
0.70 Park Ave NJ 3 {overpass}
1.09 Park Ave Pierrepont Ave {signal}

Park Avenue eastbound, from Ridge Road intersection a block west of Franklin Place.
1.66 Park Ave Spring Dell {signal}
1.68 Park Ave Franklin Pl {signal}
1.85 Park Ave Erie Ave, CR 32 {traffic circle}
1.85 CR 30 ENDS, Rutherford Boro

County Road S-30

Bergen County Road S-30, Rutherford Avenue, marked the northern edge of the John Rutherfurd farm in the first part of the 19th century. The name was changed to Rutherford after the U.S. Post Office opened an office called Rutherford in 1876; at the time the Ohioan Rutherford B. Hayes was running for president. Today, the road divides Rutherford Borough from Lyndhurst Township; ironically, Rutherford Borough is on the north side of the road.

Until the early 1950s, there was a bridge crossing the Passaic River between Clifton and Rutherford at Rutherford Avenue. The bridge was torn down after the NJ S-3 (now NJ 3) bridge was opened 200 feet to the north.

Rutherford Avenue continues to the east as NJ 17.

Mile Street Name Feature (West to East)
0.00 CR S-30 BEGINS, (Rutherford Boro) [Lyndhurst Twp]
0.00 Rutherford Ave Riverside Ave, CR 507

Westbound on Rutherford Avenue approaching Riverside Avenue. Note the concrete
barricade straight ahead; this is where the old Rutherford Avenue bridge landed.
The new (in 1949) NJ S-3 (now NJ 3) bridge, visible to the right, took its place.
0.15 Rutherford Ave Park Ave, CR 30 / Stuyvesant Ave {signal}

Westbound just below Ridge Road. NJ 3 is visible on the right.
0.67 Rutherford Ave Ridge Rd, NJ 17 {signal}
0.67 CR S-30 ENDS, (Rutherford Boro) [Lyndhurst Twp]

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