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Paddlin' in the Pines
( 39.70208, -74.42738 )

  1. Batsto Lake - Batsto ( 39.64682, -74.65327 )
  2. Batsto River - Wharton State Forest ( 39.71014, -74.66747 )
  3. Cedar Creek - Berkeley ( 39.90248, -74.24513 )
  4. Cedar Creek - Lanoka Harbor ( 39.86936, -74.17065 )
  5. Great Egg Harbor River - Penny Pot ( 39.57547, -74.82239 )
  6. Great Egg Harbor River - Weymouth ( 39.51339, -74.77889 )

This map shows the three trips described in this article

by Andrée Jannette

New Jersey Outdoors
Spring 1998
$4.25

If you don't know how to turn your canoe on a dime when you put in at your first Pinelands river, you will by the time you finish. These are narrow, winding rivers, full of sweeping curves and sharply angled switchbacks. Yet these twists and turns are very much a part of the mystique and the delight of paddling in New Jersey's Pinelands.


Raritan Bay
( 40.45615, -74.14226 )

  1. Lake Lefferts - Matawan ( 40.41563, -74.23362 )
  2. Raritan Bay - Atlantic Highlands ( 40.41858, -74.04652 )
  3. Raritan Bay - Cliffwood (E) ( 40.45089, -74.22033 )
  4. Raritan Bay - Cliffwood (W) ( 40.45216, -74.22269 )
  5. Raritan Bay - Cliffwood (Whale Creek) ( 40.45090, -74.22274 )
  6. Raritan Bay - Highlands (E) ( 40.40340, -73.98494 )
  7. Raritan Bay - Highlands (W) ( 40.41023, -74.00359 )
  8. Raritan Bay - Keyport (E) ( 40.44095, -74.19534 )
  9. Raritan Bay - Keyport (W) ( 40.43921, -74.20160 )
  10. Raritan Bay - Laurence Harbor (E) ( 40.45877, -74.24622 )
  11. Raritan Bay - Laurence Harbor (W) ( 40.46223, -74.25482 )
  12. Raritan Bay - Leonardo ( 40.42375, -74.06122 )
  13. Raritan Bay - Middletown ( 40.44463, -74.11175 )
  14. Raritan Bay - Port Monmouth ( 40.43800, -74.08955 )
  15. Raritan Bay - Sandy Hook ( 40.41555, -73.98161 )
  16. Raritan Bay - South Amboy (N) ( 40.48343, -74.27059 )
  17. Raritan Bay - South Amboy (S) ( 40.47946, -74.26831 )
  18. Raritan Bay - South Amboy Ramp ( 40.48401, -74.27416 )
  19. Raritan Bay - Union Beach (E) ( 40.44787, -74.16598 )
  20. Raritan Bay - Union Beach (W) ( 40.45479, -74.17517 )

The exclusion zone around the Navy pier is strictly enforced. Stay away.


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