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Renee's post about making a wall sized topo map of the pines got me thinking... what are everyone's definition of the pines? Exactly where do they begin and end? Most people say that the Pines begins in South Toms River. I actually believe that it starts in extreme southern Monmouth County -...

So anyway, I'm spending less and less time in Jersey as my company flies me all over creation to work. Right now I'm in Denver setting up a new office out here. I was fortunate to have this weekend free, so I decided to find some ghost towns out here. The ghosttowns.com website has been my...

Now THIS is a tree: I had the un-enviable task of closing up my company's office in San Jose, CA this weekend. I worked for a while on Sunday, and then decided to find a place to go hiking and explore. The "Welcome to the Bay Area" guide in my hotel room mentioned Big Basin Redwoods State...

I was taking a look through some old CD-RWs of mine when I found a folder that I must have saved almost five years ago. It was a (somewhat) working template of the Pine Barrens related site I used to run, called "New Jersey Crossroads" I put it up on this server so you could get an idea of...

http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,921029,00.html Published in the Asbury Park Press 3/08/04 JOE ZEDALIS TOMS RIVER BUREAU BERKELEY -- They may be off-road, but many favorite four-wheeling sites are still off-limits. Berkeley police have pooled resources with the Ocean County...

Today I decided to visit a spot that has been nagging at me for a long time. I've been all over the Forked River Mountains, but never to the ruins that are located near the Chamberlain Branch. Since the weather was good, I decided it was a good enough excuse to take the new Jeep out and see how...

Today I didn't have a lot of free time, but I did manage to get outside to do some hiking. There is a trail near me that is part of the Edwin Forsyche Wildlife Refuge. It's not terribly long - maybe 2 or 3 miles, but eventually it brings you out to a huge salt water marsh on Barnegat Bay. It was...

Horray for easy credit. ;)

Sweeping changes considered for Pinelands zoning Published in the Asbury Park Press 1/21/04 By KIRK MOORE STAFF WRITER PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP -- New homeowners and pine snakes could co-exist in the woods of Jackson and Manchester, according to a plan by a Pinelands Commission task force...

http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,886152,00.html Published in the Asbury Park Press 1/12/04 By ED PRINCE STAFF WRITER Call it the incredible shrinking township. Once a geographic giant encompassing most of present-day Monmouth and Ocean counties, Shrewsbury Township has been whittled...

So anyone do any good exploring this weekend? I've been so tied up with stuff over the last few weekends that I haven't been out in the woods in three weeks. I'm starting to get withdrawl symptons. All I can do is look at old maps and dream... :( So I guess I have to live vicariously...

I had been meaning to go back out to Colliers Mills for some time now. Having recently picked up some software that will let me calculate longitude and latitude on the historic maps (with some degree of innacuracy, though) I wanted to load the GPS up with some spots to look at and do some...

I just finsihed scanning & making a PDF of this rare out of print book. You can grab a copy of it here: http://www.njpinebarrens.com/UpDownload+index-req-getit-lid-515.phtml It's a contemporary look at the life and history of James P. Allaire and the Iron Works in Monmouth County that...

I'm a huge fan of the Cook Topo Map series. Not only is it pretty accurate and easy to reconcile with modern topo maps but it shows a lot of things that most other maps don't. Case in point, Boyd's Hotel. Out near Whiting, near the border of Fort Dix, is where the hotel was located...

I think someone was looking for this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3573861252&category=41513

I was just looking around on the old Beers atlas map of Camden Co. that I uploaded to the map gallery a few days ago trying to see if I could find out anything about Parkdale. It's marked on the map as "Cranberry Park Station" so I assume that Parkdale is a newer name, and that this place was...

Fast food is bad for you.

I just got the plates for my new Jeep today. I got the Pinelands plates. Cost me an extra $50, but now I have the cool frog and pine needles to show everyone.

Back in the woods near the old Dover Forge, the Cook Atlas (number 13) places Ten Mile Hollow. Reading over an old post by Bob on the PBE site, and encouraged by descriptions of a "Pet Cemetary" in Bamber that matched Bob's description in Weird NJ (issue 19) we decided to seek it out today...

Anyone know what - if anything - is to be seen at Camp Columbus? Is it still in use? It's located in Lacey Township right on Bamber Lake.