Working to protect, enhance and expand
Jonathan's Woods.
Located in Denville, New Jersey
Jonathan’s Woods has become a valuable community asset for people from many surrounding towns who enjoy hiking, biking, walking their dogs, and observing nature on the trails. Over the past decade, we have offered free educational nature walks and hikes, enhanced the trails, maintained the land by removing invasive species and litter, and created a pollinator meadow.
OUR MISSION
We are a not-for-profit conservation organization and land trust based in Denville, New Jersey. Our mission is to protect the wetlands, woodlands and potable water supplies throughout the Beaver Brook watershed in Denville, Rockaway and Boonton Townships. We identify and support land acquisition, provide site stewardship and offer public education programs.
DID YOU KNOW?
635 ACRES
OF OPEN SPACE
To date POWWW in partnership with NJ Fish and Wildlife, the Morris County Park Commission, the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority (MCMUA), Denville Township and Green Acres has acquired 635 acres of open space that will be preserved in perpetuity for passive recreation.
POWWW creates and maintains trails within Jonathon's Woods through diverse habitats.
The hiking trails and forest at Jonathan’s Woods provide a direct connection to the 3,000+ acres of open space of Wildcat Ridge WMA in Rockaway Township, creating a vital greenway for wildlife.
15+MILES
OF TRAILS
BIRDERS LOOP / PURPLE TRAIL
Starting from the kiosk at Jonathan's Woods parking lot off Old Beach Glen Road, Rockaway the trail crosses the former Pines, now an 18-acre open habitat in the state of ecological succession. It then enters into the remaining pine forest with the Beaver Brook wetland skirting the forest to the right. The trail joins the White Trail for a short period before turning right and dropping into the scenic Beaver Brook wetland. A short ascent brings you to uphill
deciduous forest, and then back down along a woodland stream to a low wetland forest.
Mileage: 2.11 mile
WHITE TRAIL
Starting from the Jonathan's Woods parking lot off Old Beach Glen Road, Rockaway, the wide trail ( formally Ford Road ) crosses the lower section of Jonathan's Woods ending at the Ford Road entrance. About 1/2 mile in on the trail you can pick up the Red Trail just past a stream that crosses the trail.
Mileage: 1 mile
RED TRAIL
The red trail travels upslope along a babbling brook and through an upland deciduous forest before dropping down into the historic Hog Pen.
Mileage: 3 miles
ORANGE TRAIL
The orange trail begins within Jonathan's Woods off the red trail. The trail crosses Old Beach Glen Road and travels through the Sasso tract, over the Eagle Scout bridge and terminates at Meriden Road. Across Meriden Road is the start of the Blue Trail that is part of the Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area.
Mileage: 1.75 miles
