Happy 10th Birthday to us – today South Jersey Trails turns 10 years old!  In celebration of 10 long years, we are doing a series of birthday posts.  Look, here’s one right now!

Five years ago, we had hiked just over 160 trails in South Jersey, so we came up with our list of the Top 20 Hiking Trails in South Jersey.  Well, another 5 years and close to another 100 new-to-us trails, it’s about time for another Top 20 list!  That turned into a Top 25 list (and threatened to become a Top 30 list) because it’s too hard to leave so many great trails off the list!

Click on the name of the trail for a link to our full write up of that hike, which [...]

1808 Trail- Sand and Water Trail – Batona Loop – Wharton State Forest, Washington Township, Burlington County, NJ Distance – 7.2 miles total (can explore just the 1808 Trail with a shorter out-and-back from Buttonwood) Type – Loop Difficulty:  3 of 10

Updated March 25, 2023 – Added in info for starting at Buttonwood.

Website –  https://nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/parks/whartonstateforest.html Open – Sunrise to Sunset.

Terrain – Swamps, forest, meadows Surface – Dirt

Trailheads – 39° 38.620’N, 74° 38.812’W – Trail starts behind the Batsto Visitors Center.  Go through the gap in the rail fence to the [...]

Happy 10th Birthday to us!  In celebration of 10 long years, we are doing a series of birthday posts.  Look, here’s one right now!

One of those things that has always made us stand out from those other South Jersey hiking blogs is that we have more bad puns than… we have lower standards for our main writers than… we aren’t afraid to tackle the tiny trails.  Hey, being a small child, like many of my five small children have been in the past decade, can be hard when you are walking.  Heck, being an average sized adult with a hiking blog can be hard when you are walking.  So we don’t mind taking on the bitsy trails.  Here are a few of our favorites [...]

Ridley Creek State Park –  Delaware County, PA Distance – 13 miles total (we did 4.8 in a lollipop) Type – Various Difficulty: 3  of 10

Website – Ridley Creek State Park  Open – Day use areas open dawn to dusk.

Terrain – Forest, hills, stream, and woods Surface – Some paved, some dirt, some rocks

Trailheads – N 39° 56.727 W 075° 25.290

Directions – 598 Barrens Road, Media, PA

Parking – Very crowded on nice days.  Parking lot is at trailhead coordinates, additional parking along Chapel Hill Road.

Dog friendly? Leashed dogs allowed Stroller friendly? Some are, some are very much not Benches? [...]