Five years ago, I started a blog about hiking in South Jersey as an excuse to go exploring with my then one year old son. I expected maybe four people to ever read it, and that estimate included if my mom could figure out how to get to it to see pictures of her grandson (she hasn’t yet).
Five years (and two kids later), we’ve explored 166 trails in South Jersey and counting. We’ve made many new friends, been invited to part of some amazing experiences, and have had a total of ELEVEN people read our posts (okay, maybe more like fourteen people… wait, 700,000 hits so far!?).
So, in celebration of five years, we present the Top 20 Trails in South [...]
We had a quite a 2017. Adorable new baby to hike with, fancy new website, and some media attention starting with a feature in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He likes hiking too.
It was quite a year on the trails too. In 2017, we hiked about 780 miles, including hiking 31 new-to-us trails in South Jersey! So as we do each year, our 10 favorite trails that we hiked for the first time this year:
Allaire State Park Family Campground and Group Campsites Allaire State Park Wall Township, NJ
Type – Tent camping and cabins. Small camping trailers (no hookups)
Address: 4265 Atlantic Ave, Wall Township, NJ 07727 (address for the main entrance to the park) The family campground is nearby on Atlantic Ave. The Group Campground is several miles away on Squankum-Allenwood Road. Coordinates: Family campground – 40° 9’55.99″N, 74° 8’48.30″W Group Campground – 40° 8’2.06″N, 74° 7’20.11″W
Access: Paved road, easy for any reasonably sized vehicle.
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Goshen Pond Campground Wharton State Forest Shamong, NJ
Address: Atsion Road, Shamong, NJ 08088 Coordinates: 39°44’44.43″N, 74°45’34.52″W
Directions: On Atsion Road, turn onto the dirt road with the sign for Goshen Pond. Drive down and make your SECOND right where there is a small sign in the tree that says “campground”. The first turn also goes to the campground, but has a million bumps that your car will probably not appreciate.
Access: Dirt road, but accessible by most any vehicle under normal conditions (has passed my “1989 Toyota Corolla” test many times)
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