Riverfront Park/Floodgates Road – Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, NJ
Distance – 2 miles (total out-and-back)
Type – out-and-back
Difficulty: 1 of 10
Total score: 6 of 10
Website – None (*GASP*)
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – along the Delaware River and marshes
Surface – Flat, gravel road
Trailheads – 39°49’53.24″N, 75°19’54.37″W
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., South Jersey, Wildlife.
Mill Pond Trail – Port Republic Trail System – Port Republic, Atlantic County, NJ
Distance – 1.9 miles total (does not include the cut through, nor the access trail to get to other parts of the wider trail system)
Type – Loop
Difficulty: 2 of 10
Total score: 7 of 10
Website – Port Republic Trail System (Facebook page, no website)
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – pine forest with a bit of swamp
Surface – dirt
Trailheads – 39°30’39.03″N, 74°30’15.30″W
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., pine barrens, South Jersey, Wildlife.
Corson’s Inlet State Park – Ocean City, Cape May County, NJ
Distance – Rail trail – 0.75 total out-and-back. Yellow Trail – 0.25 miles one way. Red Trail – 0.4 miles one way. We did 2.4 miles total covering all three of these and a beach walk back from the Red to Yellow Trail. Can also extend this beach walk around the tip of the island.
Type – Series of out-and-back trails that can be looped off with beach walks if you choose.
Difficulty: 2 of 10
Total score: 7 of 10
Website – Corsons Inlet State Park
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – beach and dunes
Surface – gravel (rail trail) or sand (Yellow or Red Trails)
Trailheads –39°13’1.92″ N, 74°38’45.74″ W (Rail trail from parking lot)
39°12’59.56″N, 74°38’46.87″W (Yellow Trail from parking lot)
39°13’7.57″N, 74°38’20.26″W (Red Trail from end of Central Ave just past intersection with 59th Street)
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., South Jersey, Wildlife.
Eldora Nature Preserve – Delmont (Maurice River Township), Cumberland County, NJ
Distance – 2.8 miles of trails (official). We did 3.0 miles of trails (with slight overlap).
Type – Series of loops.
Difficulty: 3 of 10
Total score: 5 of 10
Website – The Nature Conservancy
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – Woods, marsh, and a bit of swamp.
Surface – Mostly dirt.
Trailheads – 39°13’2.81″N, 74°55’18.94″W (at back of parking lot)
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., pine barrens, South Jersey, Wildlife.
Cape May Point State Park – Cape May, Cape May County, NJ
Distance – 3.2 miles of trail total
Type – Series of loops
Difficulty: 2 of 10
Total score: 9 of 10
Updated – March 3, 2017
Website – Cape May Point State Park
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – Mostly tidal marshlands with small patches of forest
Surface – boardwalks and dirt
Trailheads – 38°55’59.64″N, 74°57’30.34″W or
38°55’57.43″N, 38°55’57.43″N or
38°55’55.04″N, 74°57’32.34″W
Filed under Hiking, History, Outdoors., South Jersey, Wildlife.
Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve – Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, NJ
Distance – 6 miles of trails total (we saw most of the preserve with a hike of 3 1/4 miles)
Type – Web of trails
Difficulty: 3 of 10
Total score: 8 of 10
Website – https://sites.google.com/site/ehtnatres/
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – forest, marsh, lakeside sand.
Surface – mostly dirt surfaces
Trailheads – 39°21’32.48″N, 74°39’4.46″W (parking lot on Zion Road)
39°21’41.77″N, 74°39’21.16″W (parking lot by nature center)
Filed under Hiking, History, Outdoors., pine barrens, South Jersey, Wildlife.
Lochiel Creek County Park – Barnegat, Ocean County, NJ
Distance – 2.3 miles total including the cut through and the plus access trail to the Barnegat Rail Trail
Type – Loop
Difficulty: 1 of 10
Total score: 4 of 10
Website – Lochiel Creek County Park
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – pinelands and swamp
Surface – dirt
Trailheads – 39°46’18.46″N, 74°13’7.51″W
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., pine barrens, South Jersey, Wildlife.
