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.
So, a certain South Jersey hiking blog was written about on the front page of the South Jersey section of the Philadelphia Inquirer today.
“South Jersey man’s hiking blog has half million fans, and climbing”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/south-jersey-mans-hiking-blog-has-half-million-fans-and-climbing-20170611.html
Big thank you to Kevin Riordan for taking interest in our little blog here, and for writing such a nice article about it! Big thank you to Kevin and Elizabeth (who managed to get nice pictures of me) for schlepping two miles through the woods with me last Thursday, and then still have nice things things to say!
And, of course, thank you to everyone who comes to read what I have to say about the dirt paths through the woods, meadows, marshes, and swamps of the greatest state in the Union, South Jersey.
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., South Jersey
Scotland Run Park – Clayton , Gloucester County, NJ
Distance – Unknown miles of trails total ( we covered 2.8 miles by doing the outside loop behind the nature center, the Nature Trail, and the road walk to the boat ramp road, plus the distance between the trailheads).
Type – Loops/out-and-backs
Difficulty: 2 of 10 – trails unmarked
Total score: 5 of 10
Website – Gloucester County Parks
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – Lake, woods, fields
Surface – Part paved, part grass, part dirt
Trailheads – Nature Trail – 39°39’27.27″N, 75° 3’9.80″W
Trails behind Nature Center – 39°39’20.19″N, 75° 3’6.17″W
Road walk down to boat ramp (closed to traffic) – 39°39’27.09″N, 75° 3’7.11″W
Filed under Fishing, Hiking, Outdoors., South Jersey
Melvin and Florence Levin Nature Conservancy – Mt. Laurel, Burlington County, NJ
Distance – a little over 2 miles of trails (we did 2 1/4 miles with some backtrack and only missed one cut-through trail) total
Type – Loop with a cut-through and a spur
Difficulty: 1 of 10
Total score: 5 of 10
Website – None
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – woods and swamp with a bit of grassland
Surface – some parts are boardwalk, some parts crushed stone dust, and some parts grass and dirt (or in our case, mud. Thanks rain)
Trailheads – 39°56’51.50″N, 74°52’40.67″W – this is the main one off of the parking lot, although there are others along Hainsport-Mt Laurel Road, and along Hartford Road (this is the best spot to park)
Filed under Hiking, Outdoors., South Jersey
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.
A. Jerome Walnut Nature Trail – Barnegat Light, Long Beach Island, Ocean County, NJ
Distance – 0.25 miles total (one way), but paths off this trail can greatly extend your hike (we did 1 1/2 miles and could have extended it more)
Type – U trail (ends do not connect, must backtrack or walk around the block)
Difficulty: 3 of 10 – sand can be such a pain to walk in.
Total score: 6 of 10
Website – None
Open – Sunrise to Sunset.
Terrain – dunes and beach
Surface – Boardwalk and loose sand
Trailheads – 39°45’12.95″N, 74° 6’20.78″W OR 39°45’10.43″N, 74° 6’23.32″W
Filed under Hiking, History, Outdoors., South Jersey
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.
