7 Books for Outdoor Fun

AMC’s Best Day Hikes in New Jersey

Four-season guide to 50 of the best trails in the Garden State, from the skylands to the shore.

Road Biking New Jersey: A Guide to the State’s Best Bike Rides

Thomas Hammell

This Falcon Guide focuses on the best places to ride your bike in NJ with directions and mileage included.

Quiet Water: New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania

Kathy Kenley

AMC’s canoe and kayak guide to the best ponds, lakes, and easy rivers.

New Jersey Walk Book

Full of ideas about where to take a walk in our state.

The Backyard Gardener

Kelly Orzel

Simple and easy gardening tips for growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

Rail-Trails New Jersey & New York: The Definitive Guide to the Region’s Top Multiuse Trails

All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Here, the experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present the best of these rail-trails, as well as other multiuse pathways, in New Jersey and New York. Explore four Hall of Fame Rail-Trails: the High Line, New York City’s famed aerial greenway, and a trio of connected rail-trails—the Hudson Valley Rail Trail, Walkway Over the Hudson, and William R. Steinhaus Dutchess Rail Trail—that form a seamless 20-mile pathway through New York’s scenic Hudson Valley.

100 Things to Do on the Jersey Shore Before You Die

R.C. Staab

While the Jersey Shore is known as a destination where salt water taffy and frozen custard were born, Miss America was crowned and “The Twist” was invented, there’s even more to the Shore just waiting to be discovered. With 100 Things to Do at the Jersey Shore Before You Die as your guide, you’ll find the best places to thrill, eat, fish, party and swim on the 130 miles of the New Jersey shoreline from the Sandy Hook Lighthouse to Cape May Point.

These books are available at the Library.