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This is the Hike of the Week for 2/24/2004
as described on the NY-NJ Trail Conference website. It also happens to be a shortened version of Hike #29 "South Mountain Reservation" in the 3rd edition
of 50 Hikes in New Jersey. That
book describes an 8.5-mile figure-8, while this hike is the bottom 5-mile circle of that figure-8. There were so many interesting spurs, with
look-outs and ruins, that we ended up hiking nearly six miles as opposed to the estimated five.
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 Lenape trail head |
 Park is filled with old growth ... |
 ... and rocks ... |
 ... and ruins: old East Orange waterworks |
 Some autumn bloom |
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 Plaque at Washington Rock |
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 View from Washington Rock |
 Viewing platform |
 Example of traprock ... |
 ... which is all over ... |
 ... the mountain |
 View of Millburn |
 Church in Millburn |
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 Near Lilliput Knob |
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 Columns at Ball's Bluff |
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 Mine tailings |
 Bridge near falls |
 Hemlock Falls |
 Hemlock Falls |
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 Steps to top of falls |
 A bridge to nowhere over Rahway River |
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 Rahway River |
 Bridge over Rahway River ... |
 ... is our lunch spot |
 Rahway River |
 Autumn bloom |
 Exposed roots |
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 On the Rahway trail |
 Remnants of industry in river |
 Hiking pole tomfoolery |
 Another short damn over the river |
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 At Campbell's Pond |
 Ruins |
 Abandonded pumping station |
 Graffiti on station |
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 Pumping station |
 Rahway River |
 Graffiti on front of station |
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 Inside pumping station |
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 Graffiti inside |
 Another dam across the river |
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 Top of the dam |
 Rahway River |
 Blaze art (same as on pumping station) |
 Last bridge on Rahway trail |
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