Hope everyone got a chuckle! These pictures are from a six day backpacking trip to Grand Teton National Park in 2012.

Kent Manderville Preserve – Barrington, Camden County, NJ Distance – 6 miles total Type – Loop trail Difficulty:  6 of 10

Website – Kent Manderville Preserve Open – Sunrise to Sunset.

Terrain – Field, swamps, hills Surface – Dirt

Trailheads – 43°59’33.81″N, 102°14’30.03″W

Directions –

Parking – Good sized lot

Dog friendly? Very dog friendly Stroller friendly? Very dog friendly Benches? Yes Facilities?: None

Markings – on [...]

Grave of Henry Charlton Beck Harleigh Cemetery 1640 Haddon Ave Camden, NJ 08103 GPS Coordinates – 39°55’27.20″N,  75° 5’19.56″W

It started with a slow news day…

“…the foreman of a newspaper composing-room, always ready with ideas for making busy people busier, proposed that an honest effort should be made to locate the town still indicated on maps of New Jersey by the mysterious name of Ong’s Hat,” (Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, 1936)

Henry Charlton Beck, a reporter for the Camden Courier-Post, was the one sent out in an old car down suspect roads with a photographer who could also [...]

Merchantville Bike Trail – Merchantville, Camden County, NJ Distance –  1.1 miles one way (2.2 out-and-back) Type – Out-and-back Difficulty:  1 of 10

Website – https://merchantvillenj.gov/ Open – Sunrise to Sunset.

Terrain – Flat Surface – Paved

Trailheads – East trailhead –  39°57’10.61″N,  75° 2’36.87″W West trailhead –  39°57’3.00″N,  75° 3’46.54″W

Blue Trail (Eastwick Drive Bike Path & Old Egg Harbor Road Bike Path) – Gibbsboro Greenway – Gibbsboro, Camden County, NJ Distance – 1.1 miles one way (about another 0.2 miles if you park where we did) – we did 3 miles total on our hike along this trail Type – Out-and-back Difficulty: 1 of 10

Website – Gibbsboro Greenway Open – Sunrise to Sunset.

Terrain – Woods, meadows, and suburbs Surface – Paved trail

Trailheads –  39°49’48.24″N,  74°57’20.17″W