Pleasant Valley Lake

Pleasant Valley Lake features a 50,000 sq. ft. beach and waterfront with sugar-like sand and a pristine 36 acre lake. This signature of Pleasant Valley Country Club is complete with a pavilion, barbecue grills, rest room facilities, volleyball court, playground and horseshoe pits. The beach is also bordered by two full size boat launch ramps, a 200... foot long boardwalk, and storage racks for 40+ boats and canoes. Red Cross certified lifeguards are on duty from June to September. PVL also features a 3,800 sq ft club house and office facility which is available for rent throughout the year. It is complete with restrooms, full kitchen amenities, banquet tables and seating for up to 120 people. Pleasant Valley Lake is located off Route 94 in McAfee, NJ, 5 minutes North of Route 23, approximately 40 minutes from Rt. 287 and 75 minutes from NYC. Officially established as a residential community in 1957, ads could be found in a number of newspapers boasting homes starting at under $3,000 and were geared toward city-folk hoping for a piece of the country. Today, nearly 500 families call Pleasant Valley Country Club their home. Our community continues to maintain its rich and storied history one that actually began nearly 125 years earlier. McAfee History (circa 1833): Early-day McAfee would see one of our original property owners, Mr. Joseph Sharp, selling his land (now East Shore Dr.) to Mr. Nathan Smith. Mr. Smith would soon discover a precious natural resource highly sought after in those days Iron Ore. Shortly thereafter, this property would become known as The Pochuck Mine. Pochuck was a surface cut mine that was estimated to be 600 feet in length and about 40 feet in depth. Its Limonite (or brown hematite) produced a superior grade of iron compared to the other mines in the area and as industrialism and capitalism would have it, made many men wealthy. These future PVL properties would change hands nearly a dozen times over the next 40 years; with each of its owners hoping for a piece of the American dream. And ...Read More