This part of Goffle Brook Park includes grills, handicapped accessible picnic tables, and a great view of Arnold's Pond, a former grist mill pond now used primarily for fishing. As part of the recent rehabilitation of the park, the pond has been dredged of sediment and the banks planted with native ground cover as well as many shrubs and trees.
Across Goffle Road you can see the Van Winkle house, built in the mid 1700's by John S. Van Winkle and added on to by his grandson, Judge John S. Van Winkle, in 1811. The old house is built of rough stone laid in irregular courses, and is covered by a steep gable roof extending in front to form an overhang. The main house has a cornerstone dated 1811; it is characteristic of the period, built of well-dressed stone, and covered by a gambrel roof which has a beautiful curving slope.
There is a little gruesome history here: Judge Van Winkle and his wife were murdered the night of January 9, 1850 by John Johnson, an English farmhand whom Judge Van Winkle sympathetically released from jail, where he had been lodged on some complaint.