Watchung Reservation Trails, Watchung, New Jersey
The Lenni-Lenape Indians referred to the area that lies between two ridges as the Wach Unks, meaning ?high hills.? We know them today as the Watchung Mountains. On the trails, you?ll be able to spot deer, birds, and wildflowe... trails.com
West Of The Hudson Urban Waterfront: Jersey City, Hoboken,...
This 7-mile hike begins in Jersey City, an old urban core under major renewal; continues through another being created out of an industrial landscape to the highly definable city of Hoboken; and finishes up with a million-dol... trails.com
Cherry Blossom Time, Newark, New Jersey
Most Americans imagine cherry blossom time to be celebrated only in Asia or along the Tidal Basin of the Potomac River. In fact, Newark?s Branch Brook Park boasts 2,700 cherry trees, and it out-blossoms Washington, D.C. every... trails.com
Sount Mountain Reservation: Hemlock Falls Trail, Newark, New...
Thanks to the Sierra Club and the Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs, the yellow-blazed Lenape Trail will eventually cover 30 miles and link dozens of county, municipal, and historical areas. T... trails.com
Mills Reservation Trail, Newark, New Jersey
Mythology tells of giants, demons, and dragons lurking deep in the heart of the woods. However, people have also found safety, food, and shelter in the forest. The same holds true today, thanks to a donation of 119 acres of w... trails.com
Garret Mountain Reservation Loop Trail, Albion Place, New Jersey
Garret Mountain Reservation is located on the northernmost tip of First Watchung Mountain. You and your dog can stand on its volcanic cliffs with exciting views of the surrounding wall-to-wall suburbia of North Jersey and all... trails.com
Dekorte Park And The Meadowlands, Secaucus, New Jersey
DeKorte Park is a place of environmental renewal. This land has been diked, farmed, and lumbered; crisscrossed by turnpikes, train tracks, power lines, and pipelines. But in the last three decades, it?s also become a spot ded... trails.com
Liberty Science Center
The all new Liberty Science Center offers hundreds of exhibitions in eight expansive new galleries and amazing films in the nation's largest IMAX Dome Theater with a screen 88 feet in diameter. Exhibitions include interactiv... visitnj.org
South Mountain And Rahway River, Springfield, New Jersey
This trail shadows the Rahway River, climbing up through the bottomlands, reaching the 25-foot-high Hemlock Falls before looping back on a bridle path. The nearly level hike has one steep rise and a river crossing that is a r... trails.com
Ramapo Mountains Loop
Take the orange blazed Schuber Trl. Then turn right on the white blazed Millstone Trl, which passes a decent view, then joins the Yellow Trl. Together they cross a road, then the Yellow splts to the right and climbs gentl... localhikes.com
High Mountain Summit Loop, North Haledon, New Jersey
The run up High Mountain is a great workout, vacuuming the air right out of your lungs. The view of Manhattan from the grass-and-granite graced peak is breathtaking, too, but there's more, including a small cascade, numerous ... trails.com
Pyramid Mountain Loop
Take the blue trail. It crosses a stream and turns right & crosses power lines cut and soon begins a short, but stiff climb to the top of Pyramid Mtn. There are nice views of the NYC skyline here. The trail then flattens ... localhikes.com
Lord Stirling Park Trails, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Children are often reluctant to walk one step farther when they get to the start of this trail. They?d much rather admire the antics of the Canada geese in man-made Branta Pond. Who can blame them? The beauty and constant hon... trails.com
Morristown National Historical Park: Speedwell Park To Jockey...
In addition to lush forests, farmland, and everglades, Morristown is steeped in American history. George Washington kept his military headquarters at the Ford Mansion. Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in Historic ... trimbleoutdoors.com
New York City: Prospect Park
A miracle of modern landscaping, Prospect Park holds some of New York City's rarest treasures: kettle ponds, the last remaining forest in Brooklyn, a network of streams beneath green canopies, gorgeous wetlands full ... trimbleoutdoors.com
New York City: Summits Of The Five Boroughs, New York, New York
Plotting our assault on the Five Boroughs from his upstate home in Westchester County, my friend Mike Foltin reviewed his life as a native New Yorker. He'd been brought up in the Bronx, so he was uneasy about the next day's t... trails.com
Flat Rock Brook Nature Center: Flat Rock Brook Trail,...
More than thirty years ago Englewood families volunteered their time to protect the city?s open space while making the land available to everyone who enjoys the beauty of the natural world. They scraped graffiti from an aband... trails.com