Kimberly & Ryan
Things To Do
Highlawn Pavilion
A 3 minute drive from the wedding venue with a beautifully clear view of New York City. A great photo vantage point. Situated at the top of Eagle Rock Reservation, the building today known as Highlawn Pavilion, and the property around it, has a storied past. In 1909, an open masonry shelter affixed with a series of arches dubbed “the casino” was built on the crest of the Reservation and to this day serves as the bones of the structure that is Highlawn Pavilion. The term "casino" refers to an Italian style county dwelling or summer house. As the Reservation became a popular spot where week-enders congregated the Italian term proved to be an accurate description.
Thomas Edison National Historical Park
A site dedicated to one of New Jersey's most well-known residents. Thomas Edison National Historical Park preserves Thomas Edison's laboratory and residence, Glenmont, in Llewellyn Park in West Orange in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. For more than 40 years, the laboratory had a major impact on the lives of people worldwide. Out of the West Orange laboratories came the motion picture camera, improved phonographs, sound recordings, silent and sound movies and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery.
Empire State Building
NYC is a train, bus, bridge, or Uber ride away. Enjoy your time in this area! The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon and has been featured in more than 250 TV shows and movies. Completed in 1931, the building is the 5th-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States and the 28th-tallest in the world. It is also the 6th-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
One World Obeservatory
NYC is a train, bus, bridge, or Uber ride away. Enjoy your time in this area! One World Trade Center (a.k.a. the "Freedom Tower") is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world. The construction of the building is part of an effort to memorialize and rebuild following the destruction of the original World Trade Center complex.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC is a train, bus, bridge, or Uber ride away. Enjoy your time in this area! The Met is the largest art museum in the United States. The permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art.
Eagle Rock Reservation
The reservation is named after the Eagle Rock, a bare rock looking down from the mountain, which marks the boundary between the towns of Montclair and West Orange, New Jersey. The Lenape Trail passes through the reservation. There are many streams that flow throughout the reservation. The forests are home to abundant wildlife, including deer and bears.