Before you go make sure
you check
our list of hiking and walking tips.
Want to enjoy the outdoors near home? Take a walk! New Jersey Trails Association (NJTA) provides places to walk and gives you all the information you need. The organization is spearheaded by D&R Greenway Land Trust with input from other land trusts and local open space groups.
Walking is fun, healthy, and part of an active lifestyle. There are over 78 trail walks listed on the attached pages. Walking to your destination reduces the number of vehicles on the road, thereby reducing the amount of fuel emissions going into the air we breathe!
Click here to learn about a great guidebook called: WALK THE TRAILS IN AND AROUND PRINCETON.
Funds from the sale of the books help create trails for the public to enjoy!
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Special thanks to Blue Ridge Mountain Sports at the Princeton Shopping Center in Princeton, NJ for their financial support of local trail building! Since 2003, NJ Trails Association, spearheaded by D&R Greenway and local partners, has created over 19 miles of trails in the central part of the State! Click here to go to the BRMS website.
Our mission is to make accurate information and maps on preserved lands accessible to the public. NJTA assembles information on trails open to the public, and posts the information on this site. We work in partnership with state, county, local, non-profit land preservation groups and parks agencies to plan more trails. NJTA consists of representatives from the following organizations:
HIKING TIPS... (LEARN MORE)
Calling all web designers!
D&R Greenway and New Jersey Trails Association are looking for proposal submissions to redesign this website (www.njtrails.org). The full RFP can be found here. Please send submissions to Deb Kilmer via email by April 1 or call 609.924.4646 for more information.
Spotlight on
Hamilton-Trenton Marsh/Watson Woods Trail,
Hamilton Township,
Mercer County, NJ
The Watson Woods trail starts at the base of the bluff just below the Watson House. It follows an old carriage road to the Abbott Bluffs trail at the creek crossing. Take the left fork and climb to the top of the bluff. Walk through the grass field to Independence Avenue and pick up the trail (red blazes on trees) again on the right. This leads to the cellar hole of the Abbott house. The trail continues along the bluff and rejoins the Watson Woods trail at the creek... <click here to go to trail guide >
To report a trail or maintenance issue of a trail listed on this website, please email
trailreport@drgreenway.org.