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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
The entrance to HIGH POINT PARK is at 59.5 miles. (Large restaurant
and cafeteria (L); campsites and open fireplaces free; hunting not permitted.) This is a 10,000-acre tract of wild forest land atop Kittatinny Mt.,
1922 by Col. and Mrs. A. K. Kuser of Bernardsville. Shaggy hemlocks,
ranging in altitude from 900 to 1,800 feet, presented to New Jersey in
spruce, cedar, and Scotch pine guard its maze of graveled roads; swift
brooks wind through the glens at greater altitudes than anywhere else in
the State. The High Point Park Commission, headed by Albert Payson
Terhune, has arranged tourists' attractions ranging from several ski runs to
numerous comfort stations, all of them clearly marked by rustic signs. The
park has reindeer paddocks (L) and a bear pit (R) at the southern tip of
LAKE MARCIA (swimming, free), the highest natural spring lake in
New Jersey.
Winding around the lake to the N., a steep graveled road leads to High
Point itself. A sharp intake of breath usually accompanies the first snatched
view through the forest (R) of the rolling miles to the N. and E.; and at
60.5 miles, at the 225-foot stone War Memorial, is the vista from the HIGHEST POINT IN NEW JERSEY (1,827 alt.). The memorial obelisk stands on
a great crag of a boulder directly overlooking Tri-State, the confluence of
the Delaware and Neversink Rivers, where New Jersey, New York, and
Pennsylvania meet. Just below is sizable Port Jervis, a toy town on the long
bathtub of the Delaware, with the Neversink, a narrow snake, twisting
along its eastern border. Far to the N. are the Catskill Mountains; to the
E. is the Want age Valley; to the W., Pennsylvania's Poconos; and beyond
northern.New Jersey's rolling hills, on the clearest days, Delaware Water
Gap, 80 miles south, is visible' Twenty-two towns and villages in three
States can be seen from High Point, forming a mosaic with mountains,
meadows, valleys, rivers, and lakes.
State 23 ends at the entrance to the park and a poor tar and gravel road
twists down the side of the mountain through wild, wooded country.
At 64.3 miles the road crosses the New York State Line, 1.2 miles southeast of Port Jervis.
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