Just took a ride and some pics...

[LPJR]

...in Bigfoot country.

Took a ride before dark just now to one of my favorite parts of the state to just go and clear my head.....Walpack...

Got some pics of different spots including the old abandoned "Ghost Tree" farm as I called it when I was a kid because of the bone white trees,  to the campground that is still going strong just past the Walpack Inn, to the white house, now dilapidated that we used to stop at and pick up night crawlers for fishing as kids on the way to Flatbrookville with my Dad, Uncle Mimi, Uncle Joe, and Uncle Gin.....It is the old white house just before the gun range on the right side of the road, where we used to get night crawlers in the small section to the right of the building...

And there are always some cool old cars at the Old Layton Garage being restored on the way back like the one in the pic...

Edited March 14, 2019 by LPJR

[ithaca10]

My uncle steve who is late 80's shot one of the two white ringnecks that the state stocked up in the pines across from the trap field. The state awarded him $100.

[Rusty]

Cool pictures Lou.  

[electric10162]

Brings back memories camping at Mrs B's and hunting off Old Mine Road in Layton.

[Live to Hunt]

10 minutes from my house 

[Live to Hunt]

33 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Cool pictures Lou.  

[MGHunter66]

16 minutes ago, Live to Hunt said:

Me too

[LPJR]

55 minutes ago, ithaca10 said:

My uncle steve who is late 80's shot one of the two white ringnecks that the state stocked up in the pines across from the trap field. The state awarded him $100.

That is so cool to have had a family member with that type of history pheasant hunting there. Great info! Thanks for sharing ithaca 

Edited March 14, 2019 by LPJR

[KBfishing]

Which is the correct spelling? Walpack or Wallpack? 

[LPJR]

19 minutes ago, KBfishing said:

Which is the correct spelling? Walpack or Wallpack? 

Funny you noticed that....When it was established in the 1700's it was spelled "Wallpack"....

I have known it only as Walpack, maybe someone on here would know when it officially was changed...I can also ask the postmaster in Augusta (who also was the postmaster in Walpack before it closed) who said she is part of the Walpack Historical Society...

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/christopher-maag/2018/10/11/nj-ghost-town-walpack-nj-tocks-island-dam-project-walpack-abandoned-nj/1284502002/

Edited March 15, 2019 by LPJR

[KBfishing]

I thought Sussex County Bridge and sign spelled it wrong. 🤣

[3Blade]

Nice pics Lou!

[Woodsman416]

Interesting that the area was originally part of Hunterdon County. After doing some checking I found out that it was actually LOANED to Sussex County. We'd like it back now please.

Edited March 15, 2019 by Woodsman416

[TDietz]

Nice trip down memory lane Lou, it's great when a person is able to do that in this state were so much has changed, been developled, "improved".  My first excursions into that area were pre-Tocks Island in the early 60s, we used to camp on Old Mine Road close to the copper mine.  I still have some Indian artifacts that we used to search for in the nearby fields.Then in the 70s my brother and I were lucky to be involved in some of the first turkey surveys with Bob Erikson, (might have been 1980 now that I think about it). Very few places of my youth haven't changed drastically.

[Greybeard]

It's always a nice ride in the country.  Pics brought back memories if hunting pheasants back in the 70's.