Best Hiking in New Jersey

This list represents the most popular hiking in New Jersey (learn more about Top Trails). Use this list to plan your next New Jersey hiking trip. Select a state and/or activity below to find even more top trails.

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#1. Appalachian Trail: Sunfish Pond & Mount Mohican

Sunfish Pond is one of the most popular hiking destinations in New Jersey, with good reason. The rocky shores of this crystal clear glacial lake are postcard perfect. Get an early start for this hik…

From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Columbia , NJ - Hiking - 8.8 miles

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#2. Palisades Interstate Park and the Long Path, NJ

This 7- or 17-mile hiking route takes you across the George Washington Bridge, north atop the Palisades high above the Hudson River, then down to either the Englewood or the Alpine Boat Basin, south t…

From the guidebook "Outdoor Escapes: New York City"
Englewood , NJ - Hiking - 17 miles

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#3. Appalachian Trail: Sunrise Mountain & High Point

The northern Kittatinny Ridge rises in an uninterrupted rampart, climbing to 1803 feet at High Point, the greatest elevation above sea level in New Jersey. This rugged AT ridge walk is punctuated by…

From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Sussex , NJ - Hiking - 17 miles

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#4. Mount Tammany

The Kittatinny Ridge (meaning “Endless Mountain” in the Lenape Native American language) comes to an abrupt, spectacular end at Mount Tammany. The 1,527-foot ridge plunges 1,200 feet into the Delaware…

From the guidebook "Nature Walks in New Jersey"
Jacksonburg , NJ - Hiking - 3.5 miles

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#5. Appalachian Trail: Catfish Mountain to Flatbrookville Road

The Kittatinny Ridge stretches northeast from the Delaware Water Gap for 43 miles to High Point, New Jersey, and is topped the entire way by the Appalachian Trail. When you look down from this precip…

From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Jacksonburg , NJ - Hiking - 7.1 miles

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#6. Apple Pie Hill Fire Tower

There are no natural vistas from which to overlook the vast pine and oak wildlands overlaying the Cohansey formation aquifer. But 205-foot-high Apple Pie Hill with its firetower offers a stunning man-…

From the guidebook "Nature Walks in New Jersey"
Tabernacle , NJ - Hiking - 8 miles

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#7. Delaware & Raritan Canal

There are two excursions described in this escape. First is an 8-mile hike mostly along a leafy canal towpath from Bound Brook to New Brunswick, New Jersey. And there’s a 20-mile hiking and cycling wo…

From the guidebook "Outdoor Escapes: New York City"
New Brunswick , NJ - Hiking - 20 miles

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#8. Beaver Brook Trail

This rugged, 6.2-mile-out-and-back hike ascends to a beaver colony. While the animals are nocturnal, daytime visitors will be rewarded with proof of the beavers’ engineering feats. The hike also climb…

From the guidebook "Nature Walks in New Jersey"
Marcella , NJ - Hiking - 6.2 miles

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#9. Appalachian Trail: Wawayanda Mountain to Warwick Turnpike

Wawayanda State Park extends across 13,000 acres of wild land. It is a remote plateau covered by rhododendron bogs where bears forage, craggy cliffs where coyote and bobcat make their dens, and hemlo…

From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Vernon , NJ - Hiking - 6 miles

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#10. Allamuchy Natural Area Amble

Whether the quarry is birds, the backwoods, or beautiful bodies of water, Allamuchy has what it takes to make your outing a success. In fact, the combination of a wild, untended woodland with countles…

From the guidebook "60 Hikes within 60 Miles: New York City"
Hackettstown , NJ - Hiking - 7.5 miles

#11. Terrace Pond

Twelve thousand years ago, a tundra environment of lichen, moss, dwarf birch, and Arctic willow existed around the pond. Browsing mastodon and caribou may have drunk from its waters, while saber-tooth…

From the guidebook "Nature Walks in New Jersey"
Butler , NJ - Hiking - 4 miles

#12. Appalachian Trail: Wallkill & Vernon Valleys

It would be hard to find a New Jersey AT hike offering greater variety than this one. While most of the state's trail hugs the ridgelines, this 9.8-mile walk crosses the eastern half of the Wallkill…

From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Glennwood , NJ - Hiking - 10.1 miles

#13. Appalachian Trail: Rattlesnake & Bird Mountains

This strenuous 11-mile day hike tops the most remote and wild section of the 43-mile-long Kittatinny Ridge. While this is a ridge walk with few climbs, much of the trail goes through rocky, ankle-wre…

From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Millbrook Village , NJ - Hiking - 11 miles

#14. Great Falls of the Passaic River

Two hundred million years ago lava surged out onto the surface of the earth in eastern New Jersey, burying Piedmont sandstone and tropical jungles. That forty-story-high magma wall cooled into erosion…

From the guidebook "Nature Walks in New Jersey"
Paterson , NJ - Walking - 1.5 miles