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 (and stupid) to trespass.


Pequest River
( 40.88752, -74.97546 )

  1. Pequest River - Allamuchy ( 40.92160, -74.84089 )
  2. Pequest River - Belvidere (E) ( 40.83055, -75.06737 )
  3. Pequest River - Belvidere (W) ( 40.83097, -75.07068 )
  4. Pequest River - Bridgeville ( 40.83408, -75.02735 )
  5. Pequest River - Hackettstown ( 40.86630, -74.90540 )
  6. Pequest River - Pequest ( 40.83722, -74.95327 )