About NJ Hiking

Why We Created This Site

We've been hiking in New Jersey for many years, and just when we think we've hiked every trail – we find a new one. It took us some time to figure out where to hike when we started, but over time we've collected a lot of great resources. This made it much easier when the weekend came around to figure out where to hike.

After constantly bumping into people on trails that were looking for the same information, we decided it would be a good idea to put together a NJ hiking site. That way we can share our information and resources with other hikers. When on the trail, now we can just tell people to check out our site.

Who We Are

We are a married couple with roots in New Jersey and a love of the outdoors since we were kids. Tom is from central Jersey, Dawn is from south Jersey, and we met at college in north Jersey.

We spend a lot of time in front of computers for our graphic design business (shameless plug: OpaqueDesign.com) but any chance we get, we hit a trail.

We're into technology and photography, and tend to carry a variety of tech gear such as GPS to keep track of our hikes, plus a digital SLR camera, and a compact video camera.

We also love to travel, especially to National Parks and other natural areas. In the last few years, we've been fortunate enough to visit Glacier, Yosemite (and climbed Half Dome), Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion (and hiked Angel's Landing), The Redwoods, Crater Lake, Lassen Volcanic, Shenandoah, Smoky Mountains, Acadia, Haleakala on Maui and Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. We've even climbed Mt. St. Helens.

We hope you find this site useful. You can contact us here.

–Tom & Dawn