Closing West Mill Road
- Thread starter Broke Jeep Joe
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A recent article in BusinessWeek describes a similar, but much worse, situation with access to Montana's Crazy Mountains.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land
Interesting article. Fortunately, for the most part we have a multitude of access points to get where we want to go making it less likely we will have to deal with the problems they do. We are lucky.
It's a mixed bag in Europe, with more freedom, but our country is pretty much on the side of landowners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
We took a ride down West Mill Road (Sycamore) on Sunday, but didn't get very far. A new gate has been installed here:
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.69788903846056&lng=-74.74525976579667&z=17&type=hybrid&gpx=
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.69788903846056&lng=-74.74525976579667&z=17&type=hybrid&gpx=
On Monday morning, start of deer week, there were 5 vehicles parked at the entrance at 206. Men, obviously hunters milling about. Surprise!
I hope the sound of shotguns being fired into the air (in anger) are heard in Trenton.
All,
I want to update everyone on a couple things I have learned about the West Mill Road gate and other items concerning Paradise Lake. RednekF350 has been using aerial photos to watch the progression of the construction of a bridge on the Paradise Lake property across the Albertson Brook or the Nescochague, whatever you prefer to call it. I think we all can be confident that a permit and approval may have been required do this and I doubt the state gave one. What does this bridge mean? Well, there is now access from West Mill Road to the southern side of the Paradise Lake property completing what must have been the end goal all along. If you have Google Earth you can see it yourself or just look at the photos below and notice the date on them.
9/6/2013 the dike is in full vegetation.
4/16/2016 shows what appears to be debris pushed into the brook and the dike cleared.
10/26/2017 the bridge appears to be complete.
As for the gate, I won't go into too much detail but I can tell you that legal documents between the owner of the property and the town of Hammonton are clearly stated below concerning pedestrian access to West Mill Road at his gate and anywhere else along West Mill Road. Unfortunately, the document allows him to block the road from vehicles. I am pretty certain the state is still working on that one.
For all pedestrians.
Guy
I want to update everyone on a couple things I have learned about the West Mill Road gate and other items concerning Paradise Lake. RednekF350 has been using aerial photos to watch the progression of the construction of a bridge on the Paradise Lake property across the Albertson Brook or the Nescochague, whatever you prefer to call it. I think we all can be confident that a permit and approval may have been required do this and I doubt the state gave one. What does this bridge mean? Well, there is now access from West Mill Road to the southern side of the Paradise Lake property completing what must have been the end goal all along. If you have Google Earth you can see it yourself or just look at the photos below and notice the date on them.
9/6/2013 the dike is in full vegetation.
4/16/2016 shows what appears to be debris pushed into the brook and the dike cleared.
10/26/2017 the bridge appears to be complete.
As for the gate, I won't go into too much detail but I can tell you that legal documents between the owner of the property and the town of Hammonton are clearly stated below concerning pedestrian access to West Mill Road at his gate and anywhere else along West Mill Road. Unfortunately, the document allows him to block the road from vehicles. I am pretty certain the state is still working on that one.
For all pedestrians.
Guy
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who is this bridge for? Is it going to be for the public? It goes right through Paradise lakes property does it not? This would give only the owner access to the public road that the rest of do not, vehicular access anyway.
If we can not vehicle access the road beyond paradise lakes He should not be allowed to access it either.Either the state is complicit in this as a way to deny access to the rest of us or the state has been neutered by the City of Hammonton or said property owner.