Not really a whole lot to say about this one. This is the highest point in New Jersey, and to celebrate this fact, they built a large phallus on it. High Point is 1,803 feet above sea level, and the tower is an additional 220 feet. Unfortunately, the...
It’s a zoo! It’s a museum! Lemurs. Bears. Leopards. Kangaroos. Coffins. Indian artifacts. Preserved animal embryos. Old cars. Throw together Popcorn Park Zoo with the Shelburne Museum, add a pinch of the Mutter Museum, and you get something like Space Farms. Most of the property is a zoo,...
Located just a few miles north Walpack is the area known as Peter’s Valley. Like Walpack, much of the area was forced to vacate when a reservoir was to have been built. While some developments and buildings were revived or put to different uses (such as the Craft...
Original Visit April 2003 This is why I don’t give out directions. I can’t believe what’s happened to the place since the last time I was there. Nearly every window has been broken. It looked like people tried setting fires inside in more than one spot. The shape...
History buffs will love this place. Waterloo was a canal town in its heyday. Most of the buildings have been restored, and like many of the other towns in state parks, people reenact the crafts & dress of the time period. The buildings are from the 1700’s &...
Not far from the ravine, cemetery, & Walpack Center is an abandoned house. I walked by it back in October or November, but there were 2 carloads of old people walking around and going inside. I figured someone had bought the house, or they were fixing it up....
Photos by Stu (2002-03) and John (2005) Walpack is a town that was abandoned in the 60’s when the government bought it. They bought many small towns near the Delaware Water Gap and kicked everyone out because they were planning to create a new reservoir. Well, it never...
