Have you thought about how far you walk with your dog? If you walk just 15 minutes a day you will walk very far in the life of your dog to cross the United States. With all that walking ahead of you, are not ready for a new place to take a hike with your dog in New Jersey? These are the best roads of the Garden State for hiking with your best friend …

1. Stokes State Forest

What are you looking for in a walk with your dog – a variety of short, hiking alone? A vigorous, multi-one-hour trek that will take your dog to sleep the whole house? Hits memorable? Lagos? Torrents? Stokes has it all.

2. Wills Mills County Park

You say you want to experience the great Pine Barrens but Dona't want to lose yourself with your dog in miles of unmapped, unmarked sand roads? This park will get you into the pines of paw-friendly trails through diverse habitats and, yes, throw a little change in elevation in the way.

3. Pyramid Mountain Natural, Historic Area

If this park has just given the points of interest in the Pyramid of the trails mountain that would be sufficient to reach high rank, but on the whole system there another way across the road!

4. Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

The climb Mount Tammany leads to the most famous view of New Jersey, but lowering your dog will love Dunnfield Creek cascades in even more. If you come when the mountain laurel is in full swing it really is in one of the best hikes in New Jersey dog.

5. Norvin Green State Forest

There are plenty of places in northern New Jersey to disappear into the mountains with his dog, but Norvin Green noted for its variety of peaks and a couple of waterfalls and mines played out for flavor.

6. Clayton Park

Walking for canine unadorned you just jump the car and in a natural, in the forest with few people with their dog is hard to beat the Monmouth County Park.

7. Worthington State Forest

Long trips in canines are on the menu here, star-studded destinations: Sunfish Pond, the Appalachian Trail, the swamp rattler, Van Campens Glen, Coppermines ….

8. Wharton State Forest

What dog loves these planes wonÂ't, paw-friendly, hiking bags on the surfaces of sand, the Pine Barrens? And there are 500 miles of them! Pure tea colored streams seep through sandy soil with excellent swimming dog.

9. Island Beach State Park

You can bring your dog here to swim in the ocean in the middle of the summer. Nuff said!

10. Parvin State Park

The main place to take your dog for a walk in South Jersey. There are hills and not opinions, but your dog wonÂ't wonÂ't complain and be able to clear the joker off the tails of these paw-friendly forest trails. Parvin Lake is a great place for your dog to jump too.

Doug Gelbert is the author of over 20 books, including The Canine HikerÂ’s Bible. To subscribe to his FREE Newsletter on hiking with your dog and receive a copy of Rules for Dogs in 100 of the Most Popular National Park Service Lands, visit http://www.hikewithyourdog.com In the warmer months he leads canine hikes for hikewithyourdog.com tours, guiding packs of dogs and humans on hiking adventures. Tours, ranging from one-day trips to multi-day explorations, visit parks, historical sites and beaches.

Mullica River Dec ’06

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