Jenny Jump Trail



Jenny Jump Trail, Jenny Jump State Forest (4/9/2011)

One month ago we hiked the western part of Jenny Jump State Forest, traversing most of the Mountain Lake trail. Getting bagel egg sandwiches at the tiny deli in the town of Hope, New Jersey afterwards was one of the highlights of that day. On that day, in perusing the trail map in the state park service brochure, I noticed another trail the almost joins the two non-contiguous park sections. On the map it is labeled the "Jenny Jump Trail" (pretty original, huh) and it doesn't appear on earlier versions of the map. A new trail? The thought of hiking something new, and revisiting that tiny deli in Hope, set us off for another hike in this lovely state park today.

We parked in the large dirt lot off State Park Road, opposite the road to leads to the park office, at the eastern trailhead. We then headed west. While initially the trail is blazed in light blue, it almost immediately comingles with a white trail coming in from the left, and it remains comingled with this white trail for at least the next two miles (and is blazed only in white), at which point the white trail veers off to the right. As expected with the state map for this park, the white trail is not on the map, nor are the countless woods roads that we crossed and ran parallel to. The NYNJTC is coming up with a new map set that covers New Jersey parks not heretofore covered by their Northern NJ set. I believe it might cover this park. If so, thank you, NYNJTC! In any event, we headed west all the way to CR 611 before turning around and retracing our steps.

Total distance traveled was 5.2 miles in just under 3 hours.

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Trail head



Pond above trail


Beautiful green hue

Wizard of Oz tree!


Ruins of some sort

 


Tower on the mountain

Beautiful road ...

... lined with stone walls
 


White trail not on map

Saplings

Spring bud

Beautiful mossy boulder
 



Mushroom


More blooms
 




Starting the climb ...

... to the ridge
 


View from ridge

Hope, NJ below


Farm silo
 


View of hills ...

... to the south

West along the ridge

 


Taking a breather

Tiny blooms on ridge

Descending

 


Creek [photo by Laura]


Laura crossing

 


Continuing on blue

Lined with stone walls

Ascending to county road 611

 


Blow-down

Views north

Delaware Water Gap

Buildings in Hope, NJ
 





Hills to the south
 




NJ farm and Tammany ridge in distance

 




Poison ivy

 

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