• Reenactors maintaining soldier huts in Jockey Hollow

    Morristown

    National Historical Park New Jersey

Park Fun

Cover of Junior Ranger booklet with Rev War soldiers standing in front of snow covered huts

NPS

Cover of Junior Ranger booklet

Morristown National Historical Park is happy to help educate children about the natural, historical, and cultural aspects of the park.

Stop by the Visitor Center or the Museum gift shop and ask the Ranger at the desk for a park- Junior Ranger booklet, which includes a scavenger hunt, a maze, a crossword puzzle, word searches, and other fun things. Kids can complete activities in the booklet and become a Junior Ranger. Or maybe you like to try an on line park activities like a word search, a crossword puzzle how about a recipe used by the revolutionary soldiers. .

Kids can find other fun park activities here, or become a Web Ranger here. 

 

Did You Know?

Dr James Thacher

“We reached this wilderness, about three miles from Morristown where we are building log huts for winter quarters. The snow on the ground is about two feet deep, and the weather extremely cold.” – Dr James Thacher, Continental Army Surgeon, 1779.