Parks and recreation thumb|Bergen County Zoo at Van Saun County Park thumb|A welcome sign in Paramus, celebrating its status as a social stigma-free borough and home of the 2011 New Jersey State Little League Baseball Champions Paramus is the home to two county parks. 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 County Park , Bergen County Parks. Accessed June 1, 2015. 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.Revolutionary War Sites in Paramus, New Jersey , Revolutionary War New Jersey. Accessed June 19, 2016. The Continental Army is reported to have utilized the old spring at the base of these slopes during the September encampment west of the Hackensack River.
Parks and recreation thumb|Bergen County Zoo at Van Saun County Park thumb|A welcome sign in Paramus, celebrating its status as a social stigma-free borough and home of the 2011 New Jersey State Little League Baseball Champions Paramus is the home to two county parks. 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 County Park , Bergen County Parks. Accessed June 1, 2015. Va.n 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.Revolutionary War Sites in Paramus, New Jersey , Revolutionary War New Jersey. Accessed June 19, 2016 The Continental Army is reported to have utilized the old spring at the base of these slopes during the September encampment west of the Hackensack River.