An online directory and discovery platform featuring unique, unusual, and interesting places to visit throughout New Jersey.
The highest spot in New Jersey isn’t a mountain peak with a dramatic summit scramble. It’s a 220-foot granite obelisk sticking straight up out of the woods in the state’s far northwest corner, and you can drive right up to its parking lot. High Point Monument sits at 1,803 feet above sea level in Sussex…
Apple Pie Hill is a 205-foot rise in Wharton State Forest, the highest point in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, topped by a 60-foot fire tower you can climb (when it’s open) for a 360-degree view stretching from the Philadelphia skyline to Atlantic City. It’s one of the strangest little summits on the East Coast:…
Tripod Rock is a roughly 180-ton glacial boulder perched on top of three much smaller stones, sitting deep in the woods of Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area on the Kinnelon/Montville border in Morris County, New Jersey. It’s been balanced there since the last ice age, it looks like it should have tipped over centuries ago,…