I spent a week in New Jersey for business a few years ago. All I can remember is trying to find the right exit of a highway. Everything was off of a highway - my hotel, the building where I worked, the restaurants... There was a grocery store on ther other side of the highway that I wanted to get to, but I couldn't get off the highway at just any exit, I had to find one that also had a u-turn bridge. It was frustrating.
But, it seems that New Yersey is not all about highway exits (well, maybe I shouldn't go that far - check the name of the park!). Here is a beautiful hike that I have to check out the next time I am in Jersey or New York: Palisades Interstate Park (from NYTimes today). Also check the slide show.
...for today’s New Yorkers and New Jerseyans, especially those who like to hike, the Palisades’ resort-to-forest transformation has been a good thing.
It has resulted in terrain that has a range of pleasant and not-too-strenuous hikes across a roughly 11-mile-long swath, and whose sharp ridges sometimes soar 52 stories above the river below. And the trails can be reached by a short bus ride from Manhattan.
This season seems to be best to explore the Palisades. Compared with the height of summer, when I first visited, the paths late last month were quiet, almost empty...
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