heads up, heard back from NPS/NWT.Appreciate and thanks to everyone who is helping the application along. Material submitted back to NPS/NWT folks as requested. Tacked on “beta” from HERO (Heritage is Opportunity) database. Corrected letters of endorsement across the board. Paddle down
Please enjoy with our compliments a photo album of the Rancocas Creek Water Trails.
Explore a 360 square mile watershed with 80-plus miles of water trails spanning exemplary tidal and non-tidal reaches of South Jersey’s western plain. Enjoy kayaking out of the Pine Barrens, a green and blue repository of “wet and wild” along the southern reaches of the Delaware River Valley. Glide through backwaters traversing the Rancocas Greenway past municipal, county and state parks. Here one can escape the super-charged maelstrom of daily life. Float along the tide through the Rancocas Natural Area, with some of the region’s remaining wild rice fields. Cruise across old cranberry bogs or travel into historic Smithville Village, headquarters to Burlington County Parks, and home to a 19th century industrial village. Explore the confluence of the Creek’s north and south branches at dusk, as sunset fades into moonlit nights with refreshing breezes rippling through tranquil tidal marshlands. Enjoy discovery along this emerald and amber gem of a waterway that is hiding in plain sight.
Photo guide presents a few of the different areas and paddling tours explorers can enjoy. Due to the tides, daily excursions are tailored accordingly. Launch sites and landings at Mt. Holly, Westampton, Lumberton, and Hainesport allow paddlers an opportunity to capture the tide for a fun and memorable experience. Check out our website and paddling book. And please remember that we are fully committed to your safety throughout your day on what we believe is one of the best recreational secrets in the Garden State.
N Branch Mt, Holly Channel cleared by folks today. Concerted effort. Large volume of trash cleared and hauled into Monroe Park Dumpster, fallen tree’s and debris removed. Tip of the ole wearing of the green to Bobby L. St. Paddy’s hat. Special thanks to Lippincott’s allowing access to creek bank. Note Lippincott’s has been in the present location smack dab in the middle of the Oxbow since 1901. Back in the day they moved Rancocas Sand products and other extractive resources. Today, sand, brick, fuel, stone, gravel and the like. Heritage business on the Rancocas. Support Local Commerce.
Spring is spring.
Migrants moving up the creek. Fish, early spring warblers, spring peppers, hawks, killi-fish all over the place, crawfish awakening. Spring is sprung, though note last year end of March there was a snow-fall,
Out and about, Pseudacris crucifer a peeping away. The little spring peeper, its chorus echoes off of marshy wetlands and riparian buffer ponds of RCrk watershed. here under the N Branch Cedars a peeping away, likewise down at Melpine, Hainesport, Rancocas Natural Area. be way quiet when your out and about the peepers whose call is strongest after dusk. Elusive little folks. The Northern Spring Peeper only achieves snout-vent lengths of 1.9 to 3.2 cm (3/4 to 1 1/4 inches). The defining characteristic of this frog is the dark “X” on its back. Sometimes this pattern is unclear. The skin is smooth and the ground color of the Northern Spring Peeper is some combination of yellow, brown, tan, reddish, or olive. Small discs are present on each toe. A faint line extends across the crown between the eyes. Males have a midline vocal sac. photo is from Monmouth County Parks Frogs in the Park brochure. If you catcth full orchestra sit back and enjoy the “ride”. Truly one of natures NJ’s wonders…
Infor link to conserve NJ info sheet on spring peeper. https://www.state.nj.us/…/ensp/pdf/species/spring_peeper.pdf