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I found that railroad bridge over the Basto River yesterday, Guy! On the road where I turned right just before the graded sand road bridge crosses the Basto to Hampton Furnace I encountered three puddles. Two of them I drove through/around but I didn't try to drive past the third one. It...

Great photos, Guy! Good detail and framing on the lizard and the bridge photo clearly shows it's a fairly large bridge. It's got me interested in visiting it. Maybe this week. When I visited the Parkdale railroad bridge I too picked up ticks and found lizards. I sprayed a little "Off"...

Thanks, Guy. Man, there are so many streams, bogs, and roads that you really have to have exact measurements and directions to find things in the Pine Barrens! I think I know where I went the other day and where I sat down for awhile. I see on the map you provided the Basto running parallel...

It's times like this that I think I want to go back to my manual typewriter and paper. At least this way you don't have to worry about your hard thought out writings being trashed and swallowed up it the black hole of cyberspace! I just lost my post. On this stupid laptap, I must have hit a...

Yesterday I took the road off of route 206, just past the Atsion Ranger Station if you're heading north and I turned right. I stayed on the main, graded road, and I drove over a small bridge over a small running body of water, which I believe was the Basto River. Continuing on the best road, I...

Thanks for the information, Ed and Guy. I have mixed feelings about making areas more accessible. It allows someone who doesn't have an off road vehicle to explore more places in the Pine Barrens. But, it seems that making places less accessible keeps out the undesirables who trash places out...

Wow!, Guy. You did a great job of documenting that RR bridge over the Basto, artfully showing different perspectives. There's no way that could have been the bridge I walked across! You've peaked my interest in this bridge, as you and others have about the abandoned railroad tracks in...

So, Guy, the bridge I found then was probably not over the Basto but over a smaller body of water. I guess I didn't walk far enough to reach the bridge over the Basto. One reason I thought it was the Basto was that the Wharton State Forest map shows the Basto flows under the railroad tracks...

I walked the tracks from Quaker Bridge Road towards Chatsworth about a month ago, Guy, and came upon a bridge that I believed crossed the Basto River. What I saw was a small stream of water that went through two large pipes, barely large enough to craw through that ran under a bridge. The...

Thanks for the information, Guy. I knew that Parkdale wasn't far from the junction of the old railroad tracks and Rt 206. I'm thinking about visiting Parkdale in the near future. I'll check out that cornerstone of the bridge and report back. I haven't gotten into digital photography yet...

I haven't been to the Pine Barrens since my last post, but I've been exploring on the Internet. I found a ghost town named Parkdale, which is said to be 1 and a half miles from Atsion. The author of the site where I found it, South Jersey Unpaved, wrote that he/she could only find one...

Yeah, good story, Bob. It's nice sometimes, as Robert Frost wrote, to take the path less traveled. Interesting, that we have Quaker Bridge as a landmark, that I found a blurb about Quaker Bridge in Marilyn Schmidt's guide EXPLORING THE PINE BARRENS OF NEW JERSEY. Marilyn's book says that...

I just read your message, German, and I'm a bit wearing, having to leave my house at about 6:30 this morning to go to Easton, PA on business. I'll have to see what's happening and am thinking about going to the cleanup Sunday. I got a kick out of seeing Soupy Sales, as well as the parade and...

The cleanup sounds like a good project. I just heard about it now. I had not checked this site for several days, as I suddenly became busy. Saturday morning I cancelled my earthlink account, because, for one reason, it took more than ten minutes to log on (this wasn't the first time over a...

Evidently, over the years wise management has kept a balance between sections of continuous, mature woods and open areas in the Pine Barrens, maintaining the mosiac of forest and field typical of much of this part of the county. I too am partial to areas where there are mature stands of pine...

I don't remember traveling left heading towards Quaker Bridge from 206, Guy, but interesting you should mention that area, because I was looking at the Wharton State Forest Map recently and noticed that an unpaved road goes to the river across from the campground at Lower Forge. By the way...

Yesterday I took a hike to revisit Lower Forge, parking away from the road just past Quaker Bridge. It is quite a nice area, with a rise above the Basto River and bog and swamp islands in the stream, good material for a landscape painter. But after enjoying Lower Forge, I decided to explore...

All of us who have posted agree that overdevelopment stinks! You make a good point, German, that the best way to keep developers from overdeveloping an area and keeping open space, easing traffic congestion, etc, is to have a community aquire an area and designate it for a use that would...

The guy up in the Apple Pie Hill Fire Tower, Guy, sounds alot like the guy who invited me and a friend up this past summer. He told me he was involved in maintenance of the specially equipped fire fighting vehicles. I've also been to the Basto tower. Both forest service guys were hospitable...

Wow! They sure didn't waste any time archiving the article, Guy! I clicked on it just now, 10:45 am. and it was already sent to the morgue! You have the right idea, German, to find a place where ATV's won't damage an area and won't mess things up for the rest of us. That's what the...