Tamarack Hollow in April

Hiked:
Tamarack Hollow

The trails at Tamarack Hollow Preserve are relatively new and I’d read about their creation a few years ago.

Since there are only a little over 2 miles of marked trails here, we’d just never gotten around to checking them out.

For detailed hike directions visit our main Tamarack Hollow Preserve page.

Miles: 2.2

Route: WHITE (Tamarack) – BLUE (Fresh Ponds) – WHITE (Tamarack) to just before its end at the power line cut – ORANGE (Hidden Holly) – WHITE (Tamarack)

While out-and-about this weekend we managed to get in a short hike on the Green Trail at Cheesequake S.P. on Saturday, and another brief hike in at Tamarack Hollow Preserve in East Brunswick on Sunday.

Standing in the parking lot, looking over towards the trailhead.

There are three blazed trails: Fresh Ponds Spur (.3), Hidden Holly (.6), and Tamarack (1.0). There are some other unmarked trails we did not check out.

Trailhead

By traveling the perimeter and doing an out-and-back on Fresh Ponds we were able to get a 2.2 mile hike in.

Tamarack trail

For the most part, the easy trails are mostly wide, flat, and likely old existing trails that have now been blazed.

Hidden Holly was more of a forest trail that possibly was created for the Preserve.

Fresh Ponds Spur is an out-and-back that leads to Fresh Pond Road:

the end of Fresh Ponds

The trails were mostly well blazed with a few unclear spots: Along Tamarack (WHITE) in an area of several downed and cut-up trees and multiple Private Property signs in view of a house, it is unclear which trail to take – curve to the right to continue on Tamarack (WHITE).

Think this was Fresh Ponds trail

Later along Tamarack there is no ORANGE blaze for the turn we took onto Hidden Holly – if you end up at the power line, you missed it and just need to backtrack a bit to spot it.

Hidden Holly trail

Though certainly not something to drive far to get too, this was an easy local leg-stretcher of a hike that seemed to have a decent amount of birds, including at least one hawk that kept flying nearby.

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