Mountain Lakes station
Mountain Lakes | |||||||||||||
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The Mountain Lakes station facing the Denville-bound direction. The 1912-built depot (now a restaurant) is visible in the distance. | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| 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) | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 14 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | November 10, 1912 | ||||||||||||
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| 2024 | 10 (average weekday) | ||||||||||||
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Mountain Lakes station | |||||||||||||
The station depot from Midvale Road in September 2014. | |||||||||||||
| Part of | Mountain Lakes Historic District (ID05000963) | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | September 7, 2005 | ||||||||||||
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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-level 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.