{"id":245,"date":"2006-06-19T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/archive\/2006\/06\/new-jersey-rock-climbing-featured-in-amc\/"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:35:29","slug":"new-jersey-rock-climbing-featured-in-amc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/new-jersey-rock-climbing-featured-in-amc\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey rock climbing featured in AMC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Appalachian Mountain Club<\/a> has an article on rock climbing in New Jersey<\/a>. I knew there was climbing there, but not to the extent that this article covers.<\/p>\n Standing at the base of a 150-foot cliff fronted by a field of car-sized boulders, it\u00e2??s hard to shake the feeling that this area just doesn\u00e2??t seem like New Jersey. Even though I\u00e2??m only a few miles from the interstate, there aren\u00e2??t any smoke stacks and the landscape is decidedly more interesting than the smelly, sprawling flatland that we\u00e2??ve all seen from the Turnpike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The article also lists some of the main climbing areas including:<\/p>\n Allamuchy State Park: Easily the most “developed” climbing area in the state, Allamuchy has been popular with local underground craggers for years.<\/p>\n Wawayanda State Park: The most remote park in the New Jersey state park system is also home to some surprisingly good climbing.<\/p>\n Green Pond: Overlooking the swampy, overgrown Green Pond outside of Butler, NJ is what Anderson calls “some of the best climbing in the state.” Aside from a few scattered boulders, Green Pond offers a 150-plus foot vertical wall that stretches some 200 yards end to end.<\/p>\n