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Wawayanda State Park is a 34,350 acres (139.0 km 2) state park in Sussex County and Passaic County in northern New Jersey. The park is in Vernon Township on the Sussex side, and West Milford on the Passaic side. There are 60 miles (97 km) of hiking trails in the park, including a 20 miles (32 km) stretch of the Appalachian Trail.
Wawayanda Mountain stretches over 7,500 acres (30 km 2) of land, which consists of deciduous forest with areas of scrub-shrub and coniferous woods. [1] Wawayanda Mountain and Pochuck Mountain to the west, form the borders of the Vernon Valley, an important farming and mining area of New Jersey drained by Pochuck Creek. The mountain is a ...
Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain, [1] is a mountain ridge extending from Wawayanda State Park northward through Abram S. Hewitt State Forest in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey. [2] It is a continuation of Bellvale Mountain in New York. The Appalachian Trail crosses along the ridge into New York. [3]
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2 )—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
Pochuck Mountain is a ridge in the New York-New Jersey Highlands region of the Appalachian Mountains.Pochuck Mountain's summit and most of its peaks lie within Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, although the south-western portion of the ridge lies within Hardyston Township, and the north-eastern tip of the ridge extends over the New York state line into Orange County.
The trail continues north, climbing near Fitzgerald Falls, passing through Sterling Forest State Park, and then entering Harriman State Park and Bear Mountain State Park. In Harriman State Park, the trail passes through the famous Lemon Squeezer, a narrow crack between huge boulders.
The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route extends along eastern and southern coast of New Jersey for nearly 300 miles (480 km). [1] It travels along the Raritan Bay from Perth Amboy to Sandy Hook , along Jersey Shore at the Atlantic Ocean to Cape May , and along the Delaware Bay to the Delaware Memorial Bridge .
The town of Wawayanda was established in 1849 from the town of Minisink.It had been first settled after the American Revolution.The name Wawayanda had historically been more broadly used to describe the region, even earlier than a 1769 map, [4] which also shows the line of partition used to resolve the 50-years long New York – New Jersey Line War.