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