Post Tagged with: "Hiking"
Branch Brook Park Bird Hike
The New Jersey Audubon Society is holding a birding hike in Branch Brook Park on Thursday, June 24 at 9 a.m. It says you’re likely to see a variety of birdlife, from forest birds to ducks and herons. Hikers should meet at the Cherry Blossom Welcome Center at the north end of the park. The [...]
Walk For A Walking Path
Our friends at Baristanet have alerted us to an unusual event on Sunday. Dubbed “The Big Walk”, it’s a 50-mile walk to raise money for the East Coast Greenway, a plan to create a 3,000-mile traffic-free trail from Maine to Florida. New Jersey’s section of the Greenway will be 94 miles long and it’s already [...]
Day Trip: Pyramid Mountain
As the days grow long and the spring sports schedules draw to a close, you may actually have some free family time on your hands. MyVeronaNJ.com is going to have some suggestions on how to fill it, beginning with today’s idea: Pyramid Mountain. Despite the name, this outing takes place in Morris County, not Egypt. [...]
Help New Jersey’s Hiking Trails
The future of New Jersey’s two most unique trails will be discussed at a special presentation on Tuesday night at the Essex County Environmental Center. Steve Marano, director of the Liberty Water Gap Trail Committee, and Ed Goodell, executive director of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, will talk about the important of Essex County’s [...]
Spring Break Mini-Trips
Back during Verona’s winter break, we gave you ideas for a few day trips and long weekends. Some of those options, like skiing and the Titanic and Leonardo Da Vinci exhibits, are gone. But several of our earlier ideas are still viable options. Like the Liberty Science Center, Crayola Factory and New York Hall of [...]
South Mountain Bird Hike
This coming Saturday, April 24, let the New Jersey Audubon Society take you on a birding hike through South Mountain Reservation. The NJAS will help you see early spring migrants and the last of the winter sparrows. The cost is $6 for NJAS members and $8 for non-members. Space is limited and you’ve got to [...]
Stuck Home For The Break? We Can Help
Talk about timing. For the first time in several years, Verona’s public schools have a full week for February break. Unfortunately, it coincides with the worst economy in years, so trips to Disney and the Bahamas may not be in the cards. It can be enough of a challenge to juggle kids, activities and work [...]
Bird-Watching Hikes
The New Jersey Audubon Society is holding a series of bird-watching hikes in parks around Essex County. The first one is Thursday, January 14 at Becker Park, which you may remember from your childhood as Becker Farm. The hike starts at 9 a.m. and the Audubon folks want everybody to meet in the parking lot [...]
Winter Walk At Eagle Rock
Verona is blessed with several great venues for walkers, like the West Essex trail, which we wrote about early this month. But in my book, the best place for winter walks is Eagle Rock Reservation, a 408-acre oasis of county-owned woods straddling the borders of Verona, West Orange and Montclair. On bitter cold days when [...]
Hike Verona: The Old Railroad Trail
Once upon a time, a railroad ran through Verona. It was called the Erie Lackawanna, dubbed by some old-time residents the “absence of desire” railroad. (To understand that, pretend you’re in an episode of “Mad Men” and say lack-of-wanna.) The trains are long gone, leaving us with Depot Street and a nice flat rail bed [...]