Hiking Patriots Path, Nj: Chubb Commons To Palmer Park

ABOUT THE PARKS:
Chubb Park - Chester Trails together with Parks
Patriots' Path - Chester Trails together with Parks
Tanners Brook Preserve - Chester Trails together with Parks

DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.781867, -74.704023

Patriots' Path Parking inwards Chester, NJ

TRAIL MAPS:
Chubb Park - Chester Trails together with Parks
Patriot's Path together with Tanners Brook Preserve - Chester Trails together with Parks
Tanners Brook Preserve - Chester Trails together with Parks
Patriots' Path West - Morris County Parks Commission

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HIKE DISTANCE: 8.75 miles

THE HIKE:

From the parking lot ...

... the white-blazed Patriots' Path follows a rails bed.

A duet on the left ...

... leads to Chubb Park.

We followed the paved path or therefore the lake ...

... together with then the chief green route instantly to ...

... where it meets upward amongst a red-blazed Patriots' Path spur along the champaign towards the playground.

The woods route volition come upward out on a paved route amongst no blazes where nosotros kept right.

There is a path inwards the ability cutting that leads dorsum to the white-blazed Patriots' Path where nosotros started but nosotros continued instantly through the ability cut...

... next the paved road.

A brusk distance after the ability cut, the blue-blazed Patriots' Path spur crosses over; nosotros turned right.

The bluish spur ends upward on the rails bed where instantly ahead would accept us dorsum to our automobile but that is the agency nosotros would hold upward finishing later.

We went to where the bluish trail ends together with the white-blazed Patriots' Path turns left leaving the rails bed.

The white-blazed Patriots' Path is at nowadays a footpath through pretty woods.

Raging waterfalls.

Uh oh. It had rained nearly ii inches overnight on top of nearly seven inches of recent snowfall melt therefore the trail was quite flooded together with this duet was completely nether water.

We bushwhacked or therefore to Furnace Road where the Patriots' Path crosses over at the far terminate of the guardrail.

Entering the Chester Furnace Historical Site which runs through Black River WMA.

There are overnice interpretive signs along the way.

The reference map inwards the kiosk is difficult to read together with I could non discovery it online.

The trail passes past times several historical ruins.

Central Railroad of New Bailiwick of Jersey duet over the Black River.

Black River

This red-tailed hawk had been sitting atop that snag but equally presently equally I got him inwards the viewfinder, he took off amongst no fourth dimension for the photographic tv camera to focus. It did capture that carmine tail, though!

A gorgeous pino grove.

The trail comes out on to Tanners Brook Road.

It's a brusk route walk to simply beyond where the pavement ends.

The Black River WMA is on the right, the left, where the trail heads, is Tanners Brook Preserve amongst dissimilar hunting regulations. (Hunting is allowed on Sundays inwards the WMA.)

There had been therefore many moisture together with muddied spots that crossing that sunken duet on the agency dorsum mightiness help construct clean us upward a bit.

I did non take in it spell I was taking this motion-picture demo but Brodie certain did - a wild turkey inwards the ability cutting simply out of sight.

The trail climbs upward to the top of a loma ...

... together with then descends on the other side into to a greater extent than wetness.

Crossing over the golf game class path ...

... together with then through Palmer Park. (After the hike I saw on the Washington Township spider web site that dogs are non allowed inwards whatsoever town parks. I saw no signs together with in that place were several other people walking amongst dogs.)

A paved path or therefore the park. The Patriots' Path continues out the green entrance but nosotros turned left together with continued on the paved loop.