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September 26, 2022

Estell Manor Group Campground – Estell Manor, NJ

Estell Manor Group Campground Estell Manor County Park Atlantic County Parks Estell Manor, NJ

Address: Roughly at 225 NJ-50, Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Google Maps of where the turn is Coordinates for turn off N 39° 24.757 W 074° 44.539 Coordinates for campsite N 39° 24.910 W 074° 44.020

Directions: Turn off of NJ-50 onto the dirt campground road.  Note that you should use the Google Maps link for where the turn is off of Route 50.  Google will try to take you through the main park entrance, which has no way to get your vehicle to the campsite.

Access: Dirt road, but accessible by most any vehicle under normal conditions.  Make sure to check in with the [...]

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March 16, 2017

Six Pine Barrens Ghost Towns to explore!

South Jersey Trails is four years old!   In celebration, I highlight an area I’ve been blessed enough to spend the last 24 years exploring – the Pine Barrens.  I started with a post on the Best Hikes in the Pine Barrens.  But hiking isn’t what hooked me on the pine barrens all those years ago (and boy, what great hiking there is there), it was the history.

So when you think of ghost towns, you probably think like me: cowboys, swinging doors, tumbleweeds…

You know, this. (Note – Bodie State Park in California).

But the pine barrens have dozens of ghost towns of their own.  Sure, there [...]

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March 15, 2017

Best Hikes in the Pine Barrens

So today marks FOUR YEARS of this ridiculous blog.  I’ll type that again for dramatic effect- FOUR YEARS.

Four is an important number for this blog, because, when I started, I figured that was about top end estimate for how many people would ever look that this big, dumb prestigious project of mine (and that was counting on my mother being able to find it on the Internet to see cute pictures of her grandson). But my, oh, my, how we’ve grown up.  In the past four years, nearly EIGHT PEOPLE have read this blog.

Okay, it’s a few more than that, and sometimes I worry about you folks because of that.  But thanks just the same for coming along for [...]

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July 20, 2015

Swamp Trail – Estell Manor County Park – Estell Manor, NJ

Swamp Trail (Loop with Oak Ridge Trail and Artesian Well Road ) – Estell Manor County Park – Estell Manor, Atlantic County, NJ Distance: 2 mile loop (Can continue further on the Swamp Trail or can hike a lot more on the other 18 miles of connecting trails in the park) Type: Loop Difficulty: 2 of 10 Total score: 9  of 10

Website – Estell Manor Park Open – 7:30 AM to dusk

Terrain – Swamp and forest

Trailheads –  39°24’55.42″N,  74°44’0.31″W

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