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.

We couldn't find a site that had all the New Jersey hike info we wanted in one spot, so we basically created the site we wished existed and put it online in case anyone else was looking for the same thing.

The site went live in March of 2009. We've been amazed at the response and traffic to the site - we had no idea so many people were interested in hiking in New Jersey.

Tom hiking Mt. Tammany, 1981.

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've been testing GPS apps for the iPhone but haven't found one that we love yet.

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, and we've even climbed Mt. St. Helens.

Our most recent adventure was to Machu Picchu in Peru, where we hiked to the top of Huayna Picchu - the peak that overlooks the ancient Incan city.

We hope you find this site useful. If you really dig it, consider popping over to our store and getting a t-shirt we've designed... it helps support the effort we invest in the site.

You can contact us here.

–Tom & Dawn