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Has anyone else looked at google's new map service? http://maps.google.com/ Wow, this just blows me away. How do they update and scroll so fast? This is more responsive than most map software you load directly on your computer (assuming a fast internet connection of course). I don't see...

Was just out on Batso-Washington road today. Somebody has littered almost the entire length of that road with a bunch of newspaper inserts. I didn't stop to look closely, but they look like some sort of advertising supplements from the paper. I guess they might have been loose in the back of a...

A friend and I took a road trip down to Assateague a couple days ago which is right on the border between Maryland and Virginia. This was the first time I'd been anywhere around there and it really impressed me. It's a barrier island somewhat similar to Island Beach State Park in NJ, but with a...

In case you didn't notice, Spring officially began this morning somewhere around 7:30 AM :)

I never knew!... http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://www.njpinebarrens.com WARNING: the above link is not very politically correct, but is very funny ;)

http://web.archive.org/web/20020923162618/www.njpinebarrens.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=index I recently learned about the "wayback machine" at archive.org. Their webcrawlers have been archiving everything on the internet since 1996. The earliest NJpinebarrens site I could...

Over the weekend I found myself at Batsto where I noticed a nature trail marked with orange and yellow blazes that I hadn't seen before. So I hiked a couple miles out and was pleasantly surprised. That trail must have been built in the past few years and it's very nice. It's well marked and...

Such a beautiful day today! Walked around 4 miles in Belleplain state park, which was really nice - I had the whole place to myself. While I was there I saw a number of hunters just outside the main part of the park. I've seen this same sort of thing before in Wharton and Lebanon and always...

It isn't the pines, but it is in New Jersey... I've been spending so much time wandering in the pine recently that I needed a change of scene, so I made a trip up to Northern NJ to Wawayanda State Park. I had never been up to this part of the state before, and I'm glad I went. At times I...

I wandered awhile in the Pasadena Fish and Wildlife Management area today, and my Magellan GPS with the US Topo map told me I was on "Bloody Ridge Road". The Garmin GPS only showed a portion of this road and did not have a name. The DeLorme 3d Topo maps don't show a name, and neither do the USGS...

For years I thought a favorite spot of mine was called Spring Hill, but today I went out with my GPS and learned that it's actually the next hill to the south! Anyone know whether this place has a name? It seems to be an abandoned gravel pit...

As discussed in another thread, I've put some screenshots online in my gallery here: njpinebarrens.com/forums/modules.php?set_albumName=album122 Note: the NJPB Gallery is long gone, so here are the screenshots. They show the difference between the Garmin MapSource City Navigator and US Topo...

You guys are great... after reading some of the posts here I went to Brookbrae a couple days ago. I had always wondered about that place but never knew where it was, despite extensive wanderings through the Lebanon State Forest (I refuse to call it the Byrne Forest! :| ). Anyway, I decided to...

Does anybody know if the old Mansion described by Beck in "Forgotten Towns" (page 95 with photos on page 94) still exists? Any ruins? I gather it was somewhere on Chatsworth lake but have always wondered where. Is that area private property?

Not complaining or anything... but I haven't seen a single tick since the big rain storms. Have they all washed away and drowned? This spring and early summer they were horrible, as bad as I've ever seen. Now they're just gone. And this in spite of several long hikes through underbrush in...

Hello All, Just stumbled across this site today and it's terrific, what I had always hoped might exist someday! Bravo. Have spent the past 12 years extensively exploring the pines and have taken many thousands of photos since I got my first digital camera in 1999. Two years ago I got my own...