Blue Holes

A New Jersey "Blue Hole" is a sand quarry that has filled with water from the aquifer below. These are very dangerous places. This is because, although the visible part may look like a Caribbean beach, the underwater sides of the quarry are steep and unstable, and merely walking near the edge can cause a collapse into the hole. The water is deep and cold, and the victim is quickly overcome by shock and hypothermia and drowns.

I have marked a few of the bigger and more notorious Blue Holes that might look like good places to go on a satellite image. They are not. Most Blue Holes are either state-owned or private property, and strictly illegal to trespass.


Cooper River
( 39.89015, -75.04902 )

  1. Cooper River - Haddonfield ( 39.90090, -75.02056 )
  2. Cooper River Lake - Collingswood ( 39.92432, -75.07123 )
  3. Cooper River Park - Haddonfield ( 39.92561, -75.05672 )
  4. Kirkwood Lake - Cooper River ( 39.83637, -75.00105 )

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