Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Rockaway Townships Blazed Trails,10/7/08

NOTE: per a 10/7/08 conversation with Rockaway Parks & Recreation Chief RT does NOT maintain any trails.

1 – MOUNT HOPE HISTORICAL PARK, http://www.morrisparks.net/aspparks/mhmain.asp
Property Owner & Trail Maintainer: Morris County Parks Commission


2 – FARNY HIGHLANDS TRAIL NETWORK, there are several landowners in the Rockaway Township part of this region, e.g., NJ DEP Wildcat Ridge WMA, Farny State Park, access easement from Jersey City, Newark Watershed, Rockaway Township, Morris County Park Commission,
Overview: (http://www.mtnlakes.org/Environment/farny.htm)
Marked up topo map(s):
· Southern End Map
· Middle Map
· Northern End Map
a) Wildcat Ridge WMA Trails in the vicinity of the Hawk Watch - http://f.vanderburgh.home.att.net/imap/wcrtrails.html . The NJ DEP site for this area is @ http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/wmamaps/wildcat_ridge_so.pdf
- The WHITE Trail is part of the Four Birds Trail and the Blue trail is part of the Split Rock Loop Trail. Both of these trails are maintained by the http://www.nynjtc.org/ and are described in the NJ Walk book published by the NYNJTC.
- The other blazed trails on this map are the YELLOW trail that goes out to Graffiti Rock and the RED, ORANGE & YELLOW trails that in conjunction with the White trail make a loop hike to the Hawk Watch. I do not know who maintains these trails.
- What looks like black trails are woods roads & are unblazed.
b) Trails in the vicinity of Splitrock Reservoir - http://f.vanderburgh.home.att.net/imap2/sr-trails.html
- The WHITE & BLUE trails are parts of the Four Birds Trail and the Split Rock Loop Trail.
- There are several BLAZED Trails covered by this map not shown on the map:
1 - There is a YELLOW connector trail from the parking area in Farny State Park on Timberbrook road that goes to the Four Birds Trail. It is west of and parallel to Timberbrook road.
2 - The Four Birds trails has a bypass for its portion that goes over the Timberbrook Lake dam. It uses Timberbrook road north to the Wharton & Northern rail bed and then west to where the Four Birds Trail crosses the W&N.
3 – Winnebago road is blazed red from the Scout Reservation to Misty Pond. The scout reservation does not want hikers using its property.
4 – There is a LAVENDER blazed trail west of the Four Birds trail that goes from Splitrock road to Camp Marcella or Winnebago. There is a connector trail (YELLOW) off of it to Camp Lewis. The Camp Lewis trail, my guess would have been done by them. The Lavender trail, my guess would have been done by both BSA camps. When on the Lavender trail you do not see white blazes and when on the white trail you do not see lavender blazes. There are several spots where there are woods roads that can be used to go from one trail to another to make loop hikes.
3 – Miscellaneous
a) White blazed trail at Craigmeur (http://www.craigmeur.com/ ). It uses part of a woods road that goes to Notch road & the Four Birds Trail. It is blazed from the water slide to the stream. Blazed & maintained by Craigmeur. This would make a good additional trail head to access the Greenpond Mountain part of the Four Birds trail.
b) RED blazed trail that starts on Snake Hill road just west of Lake Ames parking area. This trail follows Hibernia brook until it leaves the woods road & goes to a private house south of Lake Telemark. Unknown origin.
c) White Blazed trail from the former site of the Hudsonia Girl Scout Camp to the Lake Telemark – Oreland junction woods road. This trail is being worked on but the blazing is ancient. Unknown origin.

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