Hidden New Jersey

I've long been of the mind that keeping a historic building in continuous use is the best way to keep it from deteriorating. An impressi...

If we've learned anything in our travels, it's that the terms "first" and "oldest" are often up for debate when ...

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 ...

A few months ago, we made a virtual visit to one of New Jersey's most obscure historic sites, the Ship John Shoal Lighthouse in Delawar...

Like many of New Jersey's county seats, Bridgeton walks the thin line between historic and kind of rough around the edges. Some of the b...

Drive around rural Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties, and you'll be struck with the number of small yet vibrant churches you...

You've got to get into a boat to find the Ship John Shoal Lighthouse, making it one of our most remote and hardest-to-access Hidden New ...

With increasing frequency, a drive around New Jersey countryside will have you riding past a vineyard or two, particularly in the southern p...

Few realize it, but New Jersey's southern counties could take a legitimate place among the pantheon of influential sites in preserved fo...

Sometimes in our travels we drive through places that just feel as if they have a history but don't give it up with historic markers or ...

A trip to the Delaware Bayshore isn't complete without a visit to Bivalve and Shellpile, and I wanted to share both locations with Ivan,...

My Cumberland County jaunts always bring me to Bivalve and Shellpile, a phenomenon I explained in a post last December. This time, with Ivan...

One of the best things about visiting Down Jersey is also one of the most challenging. Unlike the Atlantic shore that most state residents a...

To many people, the 'end' of New Jersey is Cape May Point, punctuated by the lighthouse. To me, it's East Point, in Heislervil...

If you're sick of congestion and crowds and noise, have I got the place for you! Years ago I found Shellpile and Bivalve, twin communi...

I was once at an event in Cumberland County where a woman complained to a local that it had been a long trip from, as she pronounced it, ...

Given the choice of where to wander in New Jersey, I'll always go for the Delaware Bayshore region. Miles and miles of mostly flat surfa...