Sunday, September 15, 2024

Norvin Green State Forest, NJ - Otter Hole to Wyanokie High Point to Buck Mountain Loop

ABOUT THE PARK: 
Norvin Green State Forest - New Jersey State Park Service

DIRECTIONS: 
GPS Coordinates 41.04581, -74.35043
Otter Hole Parking Lot

TRAIL MAP: 
Northern New Jersey Highlands Trail Map 151 - New York New Jersey Trail Conference


HIKE DISTANCE:  7.4 miles

THE HIKE: 
The trail starts just to the east of the parking lot.
Otter Hole
Heading to Chikahoki Falls via the Highlands Trail...
... with a little detour on an unmarked trail I wanted to check out.
I was trying to get to yellow but was having a hard time finding it.
No wonder!  It was not obvious at all.
Back on the blue trail/Highlands Trail.
White trail to the falls.
I was surprised the falls were running at all with as dry as it has been.
On the yellow Carris Hill Trail.
On the blue trail/Highlands Trail again.
Wyanoki High Point
From Wyanokie High Point taking blue to the right.
We passed by white a short distance to the overlook then retraced.
The white Macopin Trail which appears to be very lightly used based on the spider webs.
At the end of white, a few steps right on green then left on unmarked.
There are some faint white blazes on the unmarked trail.
I had intended to go left on red dot on white but ended up continuing on unmarked which led to...
... the yellow Wyanokie Crest Trail.  That was fine, just a little different than planned.
The Highlands Trail joins in.
At the overlook the trail descends VERY steeply over this rock surface.  It's a sit-down-and-scootch-on-your-rear-end kind of downhill.
New York City was almost visible on a hazy day.
Right on the green Otter Hole Trail.
Falls at Otter Hole.
Arriving back at the parking lot, I was quite horrified when I turned to the right and saw my car.
It takes a special kind of stupid to do something like that.  That is asking to get your car keyed.  He is lucky that is not something I am capable of doing.  I am however capable of calling the police and having the car towed but it didn't come to that, although it would have served him right.  There was a women sitting in the blue car next to mine.  She pulled out of her spot and I was able to wiggle out. A very angry note was left on the windshield of that car.

4 comments:

  1. Yes, that Jeep driver is beyond stupid. He/she is the kind of person that evidently has no sense of decency and consideration and probably is beyond rehabilitation. One of these times if "it" keeps doing such things"it" will run into the wrong person and learn a lesson. If I am not mistaken, there appears to be NY plates.

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    1. Yes, NY plates. I hope they learn a lesson someday. That is just unacceptable.

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    2. you should see how many violations they have in NYC, lookup by plate # https://www.howsmydrivingny.nyc/

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    3. Oh wow, that is great. I did not know there was such a thing. And you totally know I took a pic of that plate, LOL. So he has: 5/28/19 - failure to stop at red light in Brooklyn; 1/28/20 - school zone speed camera violation in Queens.

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