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I'm not laughing. I've been to some scary places but the Pines at night is just downright spooky. I don't know whether it's all the Jersey Devil stories I heard as a kid or what, but as beautiful as it is out there once the sun goes down it's a much different place, that's for sure.

I didn't realize that Al Capone was involved in Atlantic City back then, but regardless it was a pretty happening place in the 20s and 30s, especially with the Philadelphia and New York socialites who would have been thumbing their noses at Prohibition. With the Pines being so close and even...

Interesting topic...honestly I've not done enough exploring of the more remote areas to really weigh in but I think partially you're right. I mean let's face it-it's not like the Pines can be compared to somewhere like Alaska where the most efficient way to reach some places is by hiring a bush...

Oh well...it was an idea. Durn Revenooers!

Right now I'm working on my term paper for my U.S. History II class and my topic is the how the New Deal affected Appalachia in the 1930s. I've been using a lot of primary sources for my paper and I've learned an awful lot about moonshine in the process. The production and distribution of...

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Tell me about it...When it comes to Chevy trucks it's tough to find anything newer than say '88 with a manual and 4wd. The SM465 is an awesome transmission, I don't know why they didn't offer more of them. Even the Cheyenne or W/T (Work Truck) line were mostly automatics, or at least it seems...

I guess I've had too many bad experiences with 2wd in the pines. Never in my own car but in others'. Once my friends and I attempted to explore with a Volvo wagon and it didn't go so well. We spent an awful lot of time searching for downed branches and jacking the car up out of ruts. Of...

Yeah...The Toyota 2F inline six is a beast. The head is cast iron which adds a lot of weight. I'm pretty sure even the Ford 300 has an aluminum head. Anyway, once I'm done with school for the summer I'd love to hook up with some people here and do some exploring. I'll still be up in north...

It is. If you take a right off of Hawking Road (I think) instead of going straight you'll find yourself on a road that Bruset and TeeGate had posted about. You'll eventually find yourself along the fenceline of the base itself. My grandfather used to tell us that the deer glowed in the dark...

http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=12&Z=18&X=689&Y=5542&W=3&qs=%7cColliers+Mills%7cNJ%7c Right now I'm looking at this view which is basically Lake Success right in the middle of the closest resolution. The road that goes around the east side of the lake kinda scares me since it's...

I know...I guess everyone else is out exploring while I'm stuck in a crappy apartment in North Jersey wishing I could get a weekend off and a 4x4 to get around in. On the bright side once I'm done I'll have all summer every summer to drive aimlessly through the sandroads (I'm going to teach...

I've thought about that before...I actually checked out terraserver and looked at the area around Lake Success in Colliers Mills WMA because I wanted to see if there was a way around it. With the way people talk about the parks being understaffed I'm sure the WMAs are even moreso, especially...

Friendship is definitely the place-Bruset found it for me on the Superpages. I should have mentioned that in my other post. It'll be the perfect starting point for building an exploration buggy. With all the stuff they have in there I could build myself some beastly sort of iron version of...

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201965 Cummins 4BT swap into an FJ55 Land Cruiser...very cool

I actually just posted about this...should have done a search first.

Has anyone explored a lot of this area? I used to pheasant hunt there as a kid, but I haven't been back there in about 4 or 5 years. We used to head back by Lake Success and try to find a way around the lake, but I was always to afraid to get anywhere near the shoreline. The sugar sand looked...

You bet...the stock Land Cruiser inline six is a cast iron monster that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 lbs. I don't have the link handy but I saw a really clean swap (4BT into a Land Cruiser FJ55) a couple of weeks ago on a messageboard. I think the pines are what convinced me...

Thanks a lot...I've always heard the Superpages advertised but never had the brains to use them...lol That looks like the place though, I remember New Road now. The only thing left to do is convince the girlfriend to go on a little road trip. Thanks, Matthew

When I was a kid (about 13 or 14, so around 10 years ago) I went with a group of older guys I used to hang around with to a junkyard down in the pines because somebody needed some parts for a truck. It was a hell of a place with everything from old 1930s-40s Mercurys, Hudsons, Chevys, etc...to...