• A waterfall in the park

    Delaware Water Gap

    National Recreation Area NJ,PA

  • Closures

    A section of US Rt. 209 and several other areas remain closed until repairs are complete. More »

Features: Cultural Hikes and Driving Tours

Most of these features were first published in the park's newsletter, Spanning the Gap (STG) or in the Cultural Resource Management magazine, CRM. STG and CRM features are pdf files.

For related pages in this website, and for links to other websites for each feature,
look up the feature under:

• NEWS: Park Newspaper-Features from Back Issues, by year (STG features) or under:
• NEWS: Park Newspaper-CRM Magazine, by topic (CRM features) 

Railroads (under Stories) | Roads, Bridges, and Ferries (under Stories)

Millbrook Village NJ

 

CULTURAL HIKES and DRIVING TOURS

Old Mine Road (under Stories)

"Drive-thru" History: A Self-Guided Auto Tour (under Stories)

History along McDade Trail I: Hialeah Picnic Area to Turn Farm (on River Road) (STG: Fall 2002 Vol. 24 No. 3) Sketches of history along the initial 5-mile segment of McDade Recreational Trail.
• Lime Kilns near McDade Trail

History along McDade Trail II: Milford Beach to Pittman Orchard (near Raymondskill Road (STG: Fall 2003 Vol. 25 No. 3) Sketches of history along an additional 2.7-mile segment of McDade Recreational Trail.

The "AT" Experience (under People: Recreating)

River Road Rehab: An Update (under Places: Cultural Landscapes)
Additional material
• A Historical Narrative of River Road and Freeman Tract Road
By park historian Susan Kopczynski.
• A Chronology of River Road and its Ferries

Military Trail. A guide to numbered signposts on this historic one-mile trail

Millbrook Village Map & Guide

 

Did You Know?

Sketch of a shiny, silvery, oval shaped fish with smallish fins

... that shad have made a comeback in the Delaware River, due to pollution control. This member of the herring family lives its adult life in the ocean, but travels up rivers and streams to spawn. Each spring, anglers follow the "shad run" up the Delaware River to catch these hard-fighting fish. More...