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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 66 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!

The Partnership for Public Paths is a community service venture that supports development and maintenance of local trails. Blue Ridge Mountain Sports in Princeton is a charter member. Please stop by and thank them for their support of local trail creation!

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:

• D&R Greenway Land Trust
• Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
• Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space
• Kingston Greenways Association
• Hunterdon Land Trust Alliance
• Friends of Princeton Open Space
• Lawrence Township Conservation Foundation
• Montgomery Friends of Open Space
• New Jersey Conservation Foundation
• Mercer Walks
• West Windsor Friends of Open Space
• Friends for the Marsh
• Garden State Greenways

New Jersey Trails Association is grateful for the support of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection Division of Parks and Forestry, Office of Natural Lands Management for funds to make this work possible. <more>

Updated trail guides

Hopewell

Ted Stiles Preserve at Baldpate Mountain

High Bridge Borough

Columbia Trail

Lawrence Township

Mercer County NW (Pole Farm)

New Updates: 
May 29, 2009

WALK ALONG
D&R CANAL
IN KINGSTON

Spotlight on Columbia Trail
High Bridge Borough, Hunterdon County, NJ

The Columbia Trail is a multi-use path that follows an abandoned railroad corridor for just over 15 miles.  The trail runs from the border of Mt. Olive and Washington Townships in Morris County southwest to downtown High Bridge in Hunterdon County.  Each county section is managed by its respective County Park Systems.  Named for the Columbia Gas Line that follows the railroad corridor alignment underground, the trail passes through some of the most scenic landscapes in the Highlands region.  The South Branch of the Raritan River is a steady “companion” along this trail as it meanders alongside, over or under the trail’s length.<click here to go to trail guide >