662. Wanda's Wanda-rings: NY/NJ Trails
A short stroll near the NY/NJ border to represent the many backpacking "warm-up rings" I once made throughout this area

I wasn't quite sure where I would want to leave this stamp carved by Arf! of MA for marking my "wanda-rings" throughout NY/NJ when backpacking as many trail loops as I could find in preparation for some of my longer backpacking excursions in the early 1980's. I'd considered planting in several places I'd hiked, from the Batona Trail in the Pine Barrens to the many loops of the Harriman-Suffern-Bear Mountain area, but decided that Ringwood would be about as appropriate and accessible as anywhere around for these particular "wanda-rings"…

So, to find this box, make your way south from NY via Sloatsburg Road or north on NJ 511 to the appropriately named state park near the border. There is also a nice manor house here that you can tour for a small fee. From the cannon on the south side of that house, head west across the lawn through the "stand-alone iron gates" to pick up the yellow trail by crossing a culvert, turning right, then quickly left and bearing left to continue towards the treeline. Soon inside the woods you should see several double yellow blazes and on the left near the stream historical marker #14. After reading the information on that plaque, take about 18 steps at 30 degrees to a 2-trunk tree with a small tilted sitting rock in front of it and look behind the tree for the box tucked under a discreetly placed stone and some leaves.

(More extensive info on my backpacking background can be found at Wanda's Wanda-rings)

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