Norvin Green State Forest - New Jersey State Park Service
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 41.04581, -74.35043
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| 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:
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| The trail starts just to the east of the parking lot. |
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| Otter Hole |
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| Heading to Chikahoki Falls via the Highlands Trail... |
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| ... with a little detour on an unmarked trail I wanted to check out. |
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| I was trying to get to yellow but was having a hard time finding it. |
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| No wonder! It was not obvious at all. |
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| Back on the blue trail/Highlands Trail. |
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| White trail to the falls. |
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| I was surprised the falls were running at all with as dry as it has been. |
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| On the yellow Carris Hill Trail. |
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| On the blue trail/Highlands Trail again. |
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| Wyanoki High Point |
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| From Wyanokie High Point taking blue to the right. |
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| We passed by white a short distance to the overlook then retraced. |
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| The white Macopin Trail which appears to be very lightly used based on the spider webs. |
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| At the end of white, a few steps right on green then left on unmarked. |
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| There are some faint white blazes on the unmarked trail. |
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| I had intended to go left on red dot on white but ended up continuing on unmarked which led to... |
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| ... the yellow Wyanokie Crest Trail. That was fine, just a little different than planned. |
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| The Highlands Trail joins in. |
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| 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. |
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| New York City was almost visible on a hazy day. |
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| Right on the green Otter Hole Trail. |
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| Falls at Otter Hole. |
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| Arriving back at the parking lot, I was quite horrified when I turned to the right and saw my car. |
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| 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. |
