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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Places: 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, Roads and Bridges (under Stories)
Millbrook Village NJ

 

CULTURAL HIKES and DRIVING TOURS

A Ride Down 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 Pitman 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 Guide to numbered signposts on this historic one-mile trail

Millbrook Village Map and Guide

 

 

Photo Galleries on all subjects
Architect's aerial view of an earthen dam stretching across a wide river  

Did You Know?
... that the reservoir of the proposed Tocks Island Dam would have inundated 30 miles of the Delaware River and 30,000 acres of its river valley (now part of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.) The defeat of the dam was an early victory of the environmental movement in this country.
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Last Updated: August 27, 2009 at 17:36 EST