Spring Ahead Walk -- Cross-Jersey Challenge
Event Information
About this event
Start: Trenton Transit Center
Finish: Turning Basin Park, Princeton, NJ
Distance: 13mi
Return: train or bus
Coordinator: Charles Updike
Transit: Arrive via NJTransit or Septa. Return via NJTransit. Walkers finish at about the same time and carpool to the nearby station, or can walk into town and return to Trenton on the 606 bus. Let us know if you need/or want to offer carpooling.
This year we will head north after Calhoun Street, cross the Roebling pedestrian bridge into Stacy Park, and enjoy a more natural course through Trenton.
A 13-mile walk from city to country. This half day event along with the 28-mile Great Canal Walk covers the 40 miles from Trenton to New Brunswick along the D&R Canal. This first leg, the Spring Ahead Walk traditionally is a casual walk to size up the trail and get back into your walking groove. The walking event is free and open to anyone.
Metered parking is available at the Princeton Junction train station which is less than two miles from where our walk ends. Free street parking is available in Trenton near the Transit Center.
The FreeWalkers are again offering the Cross-Jersey Walking Challenge, with a goal of walking the 100 miles of the East Coast Greenway across the entire state at any time during the year. This walk is part of the ECG trail from Trenton to New York City.
Highlights:
-Mill Hill Park
-Old Barracks
-State Capitol
-Roebling pedestrian bridge
-Stacy Park
-Battle of Trenton Monument
-D and R Canal towpath
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.
