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Though technically not what many would consider a "hike" (you won't see many trees or lakes, or climb any hills), this walk is one of the hikes included in the book
Hiking New Jersey: A Guide to 50 of the Garden State's Greatest Hiking Adventures (1st edition).
It's hike #48 ("Liberty State Park"), and it is quite spectacular in its own way. The first third includes a small walk through a nature area, and then a stroll through the heart of Liberty Park
which passes the beautiful Columbus Monument, and then continues through the pretty Remembrance Grove (where a stone bears the names of every New Jerseyan who died on 9/11).
The second third includes a walk through the marina at the Morris Canal Big Basin before joining the Liberty Walk at the historic CRRNJ Terminal. The last third
continues along the Liberty Walk for a spectacular mile and a half that affords constant views of the Hudson River, lower Manhattan, Ellis Island and Lady Liberty.
Total mileage today was 5 miles in about 3 hours.
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 Lady Liberty from Nature Path |
 Nature Path |
 Lady Liberty through dense vegetation |
 Interpretive Center |
 Field of flowers behind the center |
 Swan in salt marsh |
 Duck and ducklings |
 Salt marsh behind center |
 Walking path through park |
 Laura and Manhattan |
 Lower Manhattan |
 Empire State Building across river |
 In the circular garden |
 It was hot today! |
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 Heading north |
 Columbus Monument from rear |
 Columbus Monument from front |
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 Ellis Island |
 Liberty Walk boardwalk |
 Flag of New Jersey |
 Beautiful flowers on ... |
 ... the Grove of Remembrance trail |
 The NJ casualties from 9/11 |
 Flowers on Remembrance path |
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 Near Morris Canal Big Basin |
 Old boat in the marina |
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 Cormorant in marina |
 Old parade float |
 Boats in marina |
 Heading east |
 [Photo by Laura] |
 Jersey City skyline |
 Bride and groom at Liberty House restaurant |
 Morris Canal Big Basin |
 Circle Line |
 Jersey City skyline |
 Boat heading to the Hudson |
 On the Liberty Walk |
 Historic CRRNJ terminal |
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 New York water taxi |
 Empire State Building |
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 Sailboat on the Hudson |
 25 cents for a view |
 Lamp posts |
 Clock of CRRNJ Terminal |
 Very old pier |
 Lower Manhattan |
 A lone gull |
 Mid Manhattan |
 A lone cormorant |
 Boats near Ellis Island |
 Verrazano Narrows Bridge in rear |
 Old schooner in distance |
 Liberty Walk looking east |
 Resting pigeon |
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 Vehicle bridge to Ellis Island |
 [Photo by Laura] |
 "Saving is Easy" over Lady Liberty |
 Liberty Walk looking south |
 Liberty Walk looking north |
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 Reading about ducks |
 Lots of benches |
 Salt marsh near Interpretive Center |
 Lazy fishing |
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 Cormorant in the distance |
 Verrazano Narrows Bridge |
 Brooklyn Bridge in distance |
 Military helicopter near Lady Liberty |
 A lone sentinel cormorant ... |
 ... is joined by another |
 Visitors to Lady Libery unboarding |
 Liberation Monument |
 Huge cruise ship |
 Gorgeous sycamores in picnic area |
 Flag Plaza frames Lady Liberty |
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