Five hiking, biking, trails & trees for the Garden State
and its PA suburbs...
1. AMC Best Day Hikes near Philadelphia: four season guide to best trails
in Eastern PA, NJ and Delaware, glossy 2010 edition over 250 pages. Want more?
2.) 25 Bicycle Tours in New Jersey (over 800 miles of scenic history)
by Arline & Joel Zatz
Vintage, 1988 paperback. assuming all trails are still there, unless NJ has dug up the roads
and returned them to wilderness.
3.) Trees of New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic States
by NJ Dept. of Parks and Forestry (no joke)
spiral bound, lays flat, over 100pages.
Easy to read and learn that a tree is not a tree is not a tree...
4.) Hikes and Bike Rides for the Delaware Valley and southern New Jersey,
with emphasis on the Pine Barrens by Bert Nixdorf
endorsed by Delaware Valley Council of American Youth Hostels
5.) Third revised paperback printing, 1982. Old school font, hand drawn maps, sketches, b/w photos
from the Bicentennial era. Probably some hidden gems in here
Woodnt recommend these if you ride a self driving ebike, directed by Starlink GPS, that tracks
every Starbucks along the way. Leave them at home and hit the road like Americans once did in
the patriotic pedaling days of yore.
5.) Off the Turnpike: Rediscovering wild New Jersey feature issue of APPALACHIA, Summer/Fall 2011