Oak Knoll is a very special community -- a unique family of welcoming people with diverse vocations and ethnic

backgrounds who care for and about each other. It's not your typical place to live!

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The Oak Knoll neighborhood, approximately 35 miles west of Manhattan, is located in the historic Ralston district of Mendham Township, some 7 miles west of Morristown, the county seat.  Located just off Route 24 midway between  Mendham Borough’s quaint business district to the east and Chester’s storied shops and restaurants to the west, Oak Knoll is within a few miles of New Jersey Transit stations at Peapack-Gladstone, Bernardsville, and Morristown, and is conveniently accessible to Interstates 287, 78 and 80.  

 

Oak Knoll is an enclave of 88 beautiful and uniquely distinctive homes. Most houses in the community are situated on 5-acre lots, offering the best of both worlds: privacy amid a friendly and close-knit neighborhood.   The neighborhood's electric infrastructure is situated underground and kept updated, adding to the natural aesthetics of the streetscape. A specially-constructed cistern and a pond provide plenty of water for fire-fighting.  

 

A municipal playground, baseball and soccer fields, and parks are located nearby, as is Jockey Hollow National Park and several county greenspaces.

 

Perhaps the neighborhood’s most unique feature is its social organization, the Oak Knoll Property Owners Association (OKPOA), which provides members a means of socializing with their friends and neighbors throughout the year. Membership is completely voluntary. Some of the family and adults-only events the Association sponsors include:

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• Winter Cocktail Party

• Ladies Toast to the Holidays

• Men’s Night Out

• Family BBQ

• End of School Year Family Party

• Derby Day Event

• Ladies Luncheon

• Bridge & Book Clubs (The book club has met continuously since 1996 and is open to all neighborhood residents.)

• Discussion Groups, including author visits  

 

The OKPOA is prohibited by its by-laws from making any assessments.  Residents are free to paint, landscape, hardscape, etc. their properties as they wish.  The by-laws purpose is only to serve the social and communal needs of the neighborhood.

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The Oak Knoll community stays connected with a periodic newsletter, email blasts, the members-only section of this website as well as a list of neighbor contact information that is distributed regularly.

 

There are many recreational opportunities within close proximity to the Oak Knoll neighborhood, all offering ample parking.  Here's a listing of just a few:

 

• Mendham Township-owned Wysong Park, offering hiking trails, a large playground, baseball and soccer fields, is located across the street from the main entrance to the Oak Knoll neighborhood on Mendham Road/Route 24. 

• India Brook Park and the historic Buttermilk Falls Natural area, with playing fields, spectacular  hiking trails, a lovely natural swimming hole and pre-Revolutionary remains, are less than 2 miles away.

• An entrance to Patriot’s Path, offering many miles of well-maintained off-road hiking, walking, biking and horse trails which follow the right-of-way of the historic 1913-expired Rockaway Valley Railway, is located less than one-half mile from the Oak Knoll neighborhood.

• The brooks that begin behind Oak Knoll and North Gate roads form the headwaters for the North Branch of the Raritan River, which runs through Natirar, the jewel of the Somerset County Park system located in Peapack-Gladstone, approximately 6 miles from Oak Knoll. 

• Jockey Hollow National Park, the site of the winter encampment of Washington's Continental Army, less than 6 miles form the entrance to Oak Knoll.