Hidden New Jersey

After a recent trip to Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, we turned westward on county roads in the hopes of finding something interesting. ...

A few weeks ago we were knocking around Phillipsburg when we came upon the curious sight of several weathered old train cars sitting along w...

Drive eastbound on the Turnpike's Newark Bay extension, and as you approach Exit 14B for Liberty State Park, you might notice the road w...

Today marks the 166th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park and the most interesting of Jersey guys. Bring a k...

You might recall that a few weeks ago, we were a bit surprised to see a brown pelican flying past us at Barnegat Light . They're not an ...

Below Newark's Raymond Boulevard and University Heights, there's a step back in time that many people outside of the city don't ...

Sometimes it pays to keep old stuff in the car. You never know when you'll need it. Longtime Hidden New Jersey readers know that we c...

Fresh off our Clara Barton discovery , Ivan and I drove to downtown Bordentown to see what other treasures were there for the finding. What ...

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art contains one of the world's finest and most diverse collections, thanks in large part to a cra...

While I was researching after my recent Hopewell trip, I discovered that the mascot of the town's elementary school is Freddy the Frog. ...

Go to Liberty State Park today and you’ll see the remnants of its most immediate former use. The Jersey City terminal of the Central Ra...

First it was the railroad hub for the Pinelands. Then it became a popular resort. Then it was the site of the nation's first interna...

Go to the downtown business district in many of the older towns on the Raritan Valley railroad line, and you'll see a Victorian era buil...

Several eagles from New York left Manhattan in 1963, taking a strange migration to places far afield. Some roosted and remain in the same lo...