Hidden New Jersey

Here at Hidden New Jersey, we’re big fans of lemonade makers – entrepreneurial spirits who make the most of what some less creative folks mi...

January is always a great time for birders, despite the prevailing cold weather in New Jersey. Those of us who keep lists of species we see ...

It's Halloween, and New Jersey-based websites are having a field day with posts citing the state's top scary and haunted places. If ...

We may have found New Jersey's first legitimate road tripper, and she was a woman with moxie. Hackensack-born Alice Huyler Ramsey was ...

You might remember that a couple of years ago, we discovered the East Coast Greenway  and wondered what it would be like to take the full 93...

Of the 1563 fallen service members commemorated on the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Holmdel, only one is a woman: Captain Eleanor...

Take a drive around Bergen County, and you're likely to pass a few Dutch Colonial houses that predate the founding of the United States....

Substantially industrialized rivers can hold a lot of secrets. Sometimes they're regrettable, in the form of pollution and blight that t...

Quick! Who was the first woman film producer? Back in April we learned about Fort Lee's hidden but critically important contributions ...

After a visit to the State Line Lookout hawkwatch in Palisades Interstate Park, we took an exploratory drive literally down the cliff to Alp...

Not far from the early 20th century  film studios of Fort Lee was once a thriving artists' colony named Grantwood, nestled in the Palis...

After an impromptu trip to Lake Tappan, Ivan and I found ourselves wandering just north of the state border in New York, looking for the sit...

I love it when a Hidden New Jersey story reveals another, equally as obscure story about an accomplished individual who's somehow evade...

You wouldn't know it by the lack of traffic in recent years, but the Hackensack River and its tributaries were once important shipping r...

I love a good border dispute, and New Jersey has had its share. The most recent reached the U.S. Supreme Court, when New Jersey won bragging...

A secret corps of paratroopers from New Jersey were instrumental in the Allied victory on D-Day, during World War II. Their story was brief...

Hidden New Jersey has taken real or virtual visits to a lot of New Jersey airfields and historical aviation sites like Hadley Field in Sou...