Best Hiking Trails in Batsto, NJ

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A pinewoods hike and preserved village are among the highlights of the huge Wharton State Forest, in New Jersey?s P...

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Wharton State Forest lies in the heart of the Pine Barrens. Its 114,000 acres encompass typical pineland habitat, l...

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Wharton State Forest makes up the largest undeveloped tract of land in New Jersey, part of a 1.1-million acre expan...

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You won?t get ?bogged down? hiking along the perimeter of Batsto Lake, but you will find spongy sphagnum moss in th...

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- Information provided by New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry Throughout Wharton are rivers and streams fo...

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The state began acquiring land in 1905, when Gov. Edward C. Stokes established the Forest Park Reservation Commissi...

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You might not notice it unless you return year after year, but the beach at Holgate is constantly shifting and grow...

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A maze of sand roads, with names like TNT Road, crisscross the park, allowing for hikes of different lengths. For a...

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Wharton State Forest?s second mostdeveloped campground has little in common with its first (Atsion) aside from the ...

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There are no natural vistas from which to overlook the vast pine and oak wildlands overlaying the Cohansey formatio...

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The heart of the Outer Coastal Plain has been known as the Pine Barrens since colonial times. In the public imagina...

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The best time to explore this barrier island is between Labor Day and Memorial Day, when the crowds are gone and pa...

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This is a very nice Day hike with the reward of a swim in the Wenonah lake when your finished, the Lake is open...

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- Information provided by New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry Today, hikers can follow the sandy trails an...

Batsto Village, Hammonton, New Jersey