What is the
New Jersey Trails Association?

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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. Walking is fun, healthy, and part of an active lifestyle. There are over 75 trail walks listed on the attached pages. Walking also helps the planet by reducing the number of vehicles on the roads, thereby reducing the amount of fuel emissions going into the air we breathe!

Click here to learn about a wonderful Trail Guide called WALK THE TRAILS IN AND AROUND PRINCETON. Funds from the sale of the books help create trails for the public to enjoy!

Dry Run Creek Trail, Hunterdon County
Dry Run Creek Trail

NJTA is a cooperative project of land preservation and conservation organizations spearheaded by D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, New Jersey. The group's 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 also work with state, county, local, non-profit land preservation groups and parks agencies to plan more trails. NJTA is made up of representatives from the following organizations:

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Updated trail guides

West Amwell
Dry Run Creek Trail
Princeton Township
Institute Lands & Rogers Wildlife Refuge
Hopewell
Eames Preserve
Updated on:
February 8, 2010

HUNTING SEASON: Deer hunting is often going
on during the week. Wear bright orange or red
when hiking in the woods from now until Mid-February.
Tread lightly on the trails- Leave No Trace.


Spotlight on Dry Run Creek
West Amwell Township
,
Hunterdon County, NJ

Trail Description: Signs of earlier land usage are evident along this walk. Old stone walls slice down the slopes toward the creek, and along the valley sides, suggesting earlier property boundaries and perhaps field clearances. Parts of the trail follow or cross an old woodland road, and at one point the trail, skirting an old wall, passes a line of ancient oaks. Origins of the earthen dam near the northern end of the trail are unclear; the presence of nearby Lake Drive to the east suggest that the housing there was developed when a lake still backed up behind the dam. <click here to go to trail guide >