Sourland Mountain Preserve
43 Trails
32 POIs
2 Peaks
Description
The Sourland Mountain Preserve is located on Sourland Mountain, in the Sourlands region of New Jersey. It is within Hillsborough Township and Montgomery Township of Somerset County. The main feature of the preserve is the 5-mile (8.0 km) Ridge Trail [white squares], suitable for hiking and off-road biking. There are two shorter routes [white circular and white triangle blazes] and "connector" trails [white "C" blaze]. The trails have been well blazed by the Somerset County Park Commission. The Park Commission supplies with trail maps, in the map box just off the parking lot. A complete circuit of the Ridge Trail for an experienced hiker can take about two and one-half hours. While located in a suburban section of central New Jersey, Sourland Mountain is a heavily wooded and rocky place. The Ridge Trail can be quite difficult and technical in spots. At the top of the ridge, there are some very large and beautiful exposed boulders. Roaring Brook passes through the southern edge of the preserve. While not officially a part of the preserve, hikers often visit the brook to see one of the finest boulder fields in New Jersey.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- Blue
- Blue Trail
- C
- Connecting trail
- Featherbed Lane
- Green Trail
- Orange Trail
- Orange Trail / Green Trail
- Pipeline
- Red
- Rocky Brook Trail (blue)
- Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail
- US General Services Admin Res
- White
- White circle
- White square
- White square, circle and triangle
- White triangle
- Yellow
- Yellow Trail
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- Amwell
- Cedar Ridge Preserve
- Dutchtown
- Fairview
- Linvale
- Montgomery
- Pheasant Hill
- Plainville
- Rileyville
- Rock Mill
- Skillman
- Snydertown
- Sourland Mountain
- Sourland Mtn Cnty Preserve Parking
- White triangle
- Zion
Copyright
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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Ekem https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sourlandpk.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
