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April 27 - May 4
The Merry Month!
Photo: Bob Thompson
The month of May invokes a certain emotional and sensual liberty, summoning waves of Spring
Fever and the happy feeling that this most stirring season still lies
largely before us. Time to hug a tree! And what better
place to do your hugging than New Jersey’s Great Northwest Skylands?
Choose among dozens of natural attractions, outdoor activities or day trips and tours suggested on our website.
Give me fever!
Identified Flying Objects
The first of several aerial extravaganzas planned this year by Flying Festivals of Warren County will launch this Saturday, April 29 at Warren Community College. The event is rain or shine.
Area 57 and the Uncrewed Systems Programs is a showcase for the College’s nationally-acclaimed curriculum for piloting, design and development, and the maintenance and repair of drones, as well as AI and Robotics. In addition to Drone Demonstrations, Area 57 will feature Combat Robots, Drone Light Show Demos, Drone Soccer Demos, and a scavenger hunt.
Planned hot-air balloon activities include presentations on How a Balloon Works, and special shape hot-air balloon, Fred G Monster. 475 State Route 57, Washington.
Meet Me in the Borough
What is Steampunk? Gather up your funky Victorian sensibilities and find out at Washington Borough's Steampunk Music and Art Fair this Saturday, April 29(10am - 5pm). Come in costume and enjoy an industrial strength assortment of live music, artisan vendors, street performers, retro-futuristic costumes and general steampunk shenanigans. Live music will be provided by Hi-Rev Combo, This Way to the Egress, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys. Routes 31 & 57 in Warren County. Click or call 908/689-4800.
Beauty, Peace and Power
The Black River is only about twelve miles long from beginning to end, but on the way it slices through the lives of tens of thousands of New Jerseyans. It hits them where they live, work and play. The river highlights the natural beauty of this corner of the state, and it flows through many of its major controversies about how land and water should be used. In its middle, as it roars through the hemlock groves of Hacklebarney State Park in Morris County, the Black River puts on a show of beauty, peace and power that can make a visitor forget where he is or why he came and cease to care.
Glowing Recommendation
The Essence of Fluorescence. A thirty-two-foot-long pageant of rocks at the Franklin Mineral Museum that includes many of the ninety-plus fluorescent minerals found here, comes alive under ultraviolet light.
Is it the bronze statue of the miner on the front lawn greeting the visitor or perhaps the full-size replica mine inside the building? Or could it be the lure of dinosaur footprints from New Jersey, the world's largest polished slabs of petrified wood, scorpions, dinosaur dung, and over 3000 specimens of local minerals that brings a steady stream of visitors to the Franklin Mineral Museum each year. The Museum, a non-profit educational institution which opened in 1965, is located at 32 Evans Street in Franklin (Sussex County).
Them Thar Hills
The Marshall House in Lambertville
California's overabundance of rain and snow this winter has resulted in both an exceptional wildflower bloom and a rejuvenated hunt for gold this spring. The man who started the original California Gold Rush was James Wilson Marshall, from Lambertville, NJ, who joined a wagon train in 1844 hoping to make a fresh start way out west. On January 24th, 1848, Marshall found some gold flakes near Sutter's Mill, and thus began the onslaught. As California was developing a state park in his honor, the Marshall family home in New Jersey was almost lost to demolition until it was rescued and restored by the Lambertville Historical Society. Amble down any Sunday afternoon to visit the Marshall House
where you will learn of Lambertville's fascinating connection with them thar hills.
Tap our calendar for the best events for you and your family, or check our current stories.
Pick from a multitude of daytrip itineraries and watch out for our virtual efforts to keep you informed.
For the more aerobically inclined, the Outdoor Map shows the way to go, or
choose among dozens of natural attractions or outdoor activities suggested on our website. Choose your own adventure!
Northwest New Jersey and destinations just beyond those borders, in Pennsylvania and New York, offer brilliant ways to get out and enjoy the pleasures of the season.
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