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The Batona Trail is a 53.5-mile (86.1 km) hiking trail through New Jersey's Pine Barrens.The trail is one of the longest in the state, behind the Delaware and Raritan Canal Trail, the section of the Appalachian Trail within the state, the Liberty-Water Gap Trail, and the completed section of the Highlands Trail in the state.
On October 19, 1920 local hiking clubs gathered in the Log Cabin atop the Abercrombie & Fitch sporting goods store in New York City.The meeting was proposed by Meade C. Dobson of the Boy Scouts of America and organized by Major William A. Welch, general manager of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission to plan a system of hiking trails to make Harriman-Bear Mountain State Park more ...
Appalachian Mountain Club has twelve chapters located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. The largest chapter is the Boston chapter, with over 20,000 members, [ 19 ] followed by the New Hampshire chapter with over 12,000 members, [ 20 ] and the New York ...
Schaefer and hiking club pal Al Getz followed the Long Path from Schenectady to Edward's Hill in the southern Adirondacks, near Bakers Mills, New York, in the late 1930s, but as Schaefer and Cady became involved in the war effort and drifted away from the hiking community, the idea of the Long Path as originally conceived quickly became part of ...
Tatum Park is a public park located at 351 Red Hill Road in Middletown Township, New Jersey. The 366-acre (1.48 km 2) park is operated by the Monmouth County Park System. The park was formerly an estate, originally purchased by Charles Tatum in 1905, a New York-based glass manufacturer and entrepreneur (who had a factory in nearby Keyport).
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Huber Woods Park is a county park located in the community of Locust, Middletown Township, New Jersey. [2] The 390-acre (160 ha) park, run by the Monmouth County Park System is situated in the Navesink Highlands and is primarily made up of preserved woodland and farmlands formerly owned by the Huber family.
Geography is typical of the Pine Barrens with sandy roads, pitch pines, cedar swamps, blueberry fields and tributaries of the Wading River. [3] The 53 mile Batona Trail runs through parts of the preserve [4] and the preserve provides habitat for rare, threatened or endangered species including bobcats, bald eagles, barred owls, northern pine snakes and pine barrens tree frogs. [5]