 On the eastern side of the borough is Van Saun County Park, a park that features Bergen County's only zoo, home to a wide variety of wild and domestic animals living in recreated habitats natural to each species.Van Saun Park also has a playground, train ride, carousel, athletic fields, and pony rides.The Washington Spring site in the park takes its name from reports that General Washington drank water from the spring here while his troops were encamped nearby, west of the Hackensack River.