Great Canal Walk -- Cross-Jersey Challenge

Start: Turning Basin Park, Princeton

Finish: New Brunswick station

Distance: 28mi

Terrain: gravel, flat

Transit: Princeton Jct Station to Turning Basin Park is approximately a 2-mile walk. Walk out of the train parking lot to Vaughn Dr. then turn Right on Alexander Rd, go two miles and turn left into Turning Basin Park.

Return: NJ Transit

Parking: at the station

Difficulty: Advanced

Category: nature, scenic

Coordinator: David Ascher

Exit the tow path at Easton and Demott and walk on sidewalks to the New Brunswick Train station. Do not continue past this point as you CANNOT CROSS THE SPILLWAY...

FreeWalkers: This is a self-supported walk, so please bring your own food/water. Just in case you take longer than planned a headlamp is suggested. There are (limited) bathroom options along the way. Port-a-johns may be there but are seasonal as to when they are put out.

Partners:

The East Coast Greenway Alliance is a non-profit organization developing a public multi-use 3,000 mile trail from Canada to Key West through New Jersey and New York. Donations and memberships help make this dream trail a reality.

Circuit Trails is 800 miles of interconnected trails in Greater Philadelphia in the making, already one of America's largest trail networks. Once connected, the Circuit Trails will be one of the nation's premier urban trail networks and it will provide multiple benefits to neighborhoods, communities and the region as a whole.

The 9/11 National Memorial Trail is a network of over 1,300 miles of trails connecting New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in tribute to the heroes who perished on September 11, 2001, and the heroes who, in response, answered the call for their country.