Results tagged “hiking” from 25-7
I spent a week in New Jersey for business a few years ago. All I can remember is trying to find the right exit of a highway. Everything was off of a highway - my hotel, the building where I worked, the restaurants... There was a grocery store on ther other side of the highway that I wanted to get to, but I couldn't get off the highway at just any exit, I had to find one that also had a u-turn bridge. It was frustrating.
But, it seems that New Yersey is not all about highway exits (well, maybe I shouldn't go that far - check the name of the park!). Here is a beautiful hike that I have to check out the next time I am in Jersey or New York: Palisades Interstate Park (from NYTimes today). Also check the slide show.
...for today’s New Yorkers and New Jerseyans, especially those who like to hike, the Palisades’ resort-to-forest transformation has been a good thing.
It has resulted in terrain that has a range of pleasant and not-too-strenuous hikes across a roughly 11-mile-long swath, and whose sharp ridges sometimes soar 52 stories above the river below. And the trails can be reached by a short bus ride from Manhattan.
This season seems to be best to explore the Palisades. Compared with the height of summer, when I first visited, the paths late last month were quiet, almost empty...
My husband and I love to travel. However, instead of visiting the most popular places (we do those too, but briefly), we like to go "off road" and find less known, less crowded places. And there are so many that are worth seeing! But they are not so easy to find (especially right before your trip!). We used to keep newspaper and magazine cutouts in a folder, but that became unmanagable. So I am movimg to an electronic format...
First up is Bamfield, BC, Canada. I have long wanted to visit Vancouver area, and this will be on the list of places to see when we find our way up there. Bamfield was featured in today's Escapes section of The New York Times. It s a small fishing town with a lot of history and beautiful places to see and fun things to do, including hiking trails, beaches, kayaking... Here is a short excerpt from "Where the Sun Set on an Empire" article, and a few pictures to go with it.
A town so tight knit and far from mainstream society is full of hidden intrigues and eccentrics, and the longer one stays the more engaging are its complexities. Bamfield, with its extraordinary history, seems the perfect subject for a novel, though whether by Stephen King or Carl Hiaasen or Patricia Cornwell depends on how long you stay, and whom you meet.
But it is also the perfect place just to read a novel — by the fire, in the quiet, with no more than the sibilant sea in the background, and the high Pacific winds sweeping gently over the trees. Its abiding peace is just a part of its charm. Once it was known by all the schoolchildren of Britain; now it is an all-but-forgotten little sea-girt village, no more than an insignificant dot at the southern end of a tiny notch in a Canadian Pacific cliff — and all the more delightful and memorable for being so.
