Our day started with a visit to Palisades Interstate Park along the Hudson. We were at the park early (for us) and the morning mist had not yet burned off. Its another of those places that takes you by surprise. TO get to the park, you can stop at a number of overlooks, check out the Hudson River and leave. If you actually walk the trail though, you enter an amazing world. We parked our car at a roadside pull-off, crossed the parkway and made our way along the trail.
The trail has remants of the past including a huge old pool, a stone castle, and huge tall cliffs. The morning mist that stole our views at the pull-offs paid us back with a serene walk along the trail. The Parkway is quite old. The first planning for the parkway began in 1900 as a means of protecting the 14 cliffs along the Hudson River. It has developed over the years and the road has grown to four lanes to allow for traffic growth, but the land between the northbound lanes and the Hudson River is an amazing environment. It is filled with birds. The elevation changes make for a fun hike.
After Palisades we headed for new counties to conquer. The swans swan past us about ten feet away as I was signing the log for a multi we found. In the late afternoon we arrived at Toms River. We were actually passing through town when we spotted a cemetery that looked as though it may have a Revolutionary War veteran. We were right about the cemetery. After our visit we were walking back to the car when an old car drove by; then another; and more. They had closed off the main street near where we had dropped the car. We decided to stay and visit the show (new waymark). Once we started walking around, Ali realized we can get a Lucky 7. Lucky 7's are part of waymarking. They signify that a player has found at least seven waymarks from different categories within a half-mile radius. Toms River has so much old history and interesting buildings and architecture that we had our Lucky 7 within 0.1 miles.
After Toms River, it was one more county and on to our final lodgings in New Jersey.
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