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Summary: The title is misleading...
Review: A more discriptive title would be, "Ride Guide Mountain Biking the Counties of Northern and Central New Jersey." For those of you living in the southern part of the state...look elsewhere. All of Southern New Jersey is ignored. Wharton State Forest is the largest single tract of land within the New Jersey State Park System. It covers part of Atlantic, Burlinton, and Camden counties and has some great off road riding. Lebanon St. Forest is historic and includes a major section of the 50 mile Batona trail. A major mountain bike publication listed Lebanon St. Forest in an article called "Five Great Places to Ride Double Track." These areas' as well as the rest of Southern New Jersey are completely ignored in "New Jersey Mountain Biking" Hey Josh, buddy. Come on...if you're going to write a book about riding in New Jersy, how about including the rest of us!
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Summary: The title is misleading...
Review: A more discriptive title would be, "Ride Guide Mountain Biking the Counties of Northern and Central New Jersey." For those of you living in the southern part of the state...look elsewhere. All of Southern New Jersey is ignored. Wharton State Forest is the largest single tract of land within the New Jersey State Park System. It covers part of Atlantic, Burlinton, and Camden counties and has some great off road riding. Lebanon St. Forest is historic and includes a major section of the 50 mile Batona trail. A major mountain bike publication listed Lebanon St. Forest in an article called "Five Great Places to Ride Double Track." These areas' as well as the rest of Southern New Jersey are completely ignored in "New Jersey Mountain Biking" Hey Josh, buddy. Come on...if you're going to write a book about riding in New Jersy, how about including the rest of us!
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Summary: The Guide to the Best Trails in the Garden State
Review: For those who have enjoyed the Ride Guides for New Jersey but wished they included more off-road rides, Anacus Press is pleased to present the latest addition to our popular series. Whether you're a recreational cyclist looking for a low-impact, scenic tour or a hard-core mountain biker fond of careening through rock gardens, you'll find a good selection of rides in the first mountain biking guide to the Garden State. From Hartshorne Woods Park near the Monmouth County shoreline to Ringwood State Park in the mountains of the Skylands, you'll find sixteen rides encompassing some of the most spectacular and varied terrain in the state. "Sweet! Sixteen rides in New Jersey--spelled out in gory detail in one concise guidebook. All the good stuff is here: maps, cue sheets with mileage, trail difficulty ratings, trailhead directions and so on ... With the Ride Guide, you should be able to extract the maximum amount of fun from the available trails." -- Dirt Rag magazine
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Summary: Wish I read the other reviews first!
Review: I gave this book a token 2 stars because I wasn't actually able to try any of the trails for myself...So, I don't know how good the trail maps or descriptions are. All I can report is that there isn't anything here for those of us in the soutern part of the state! For mountain bikers in S. Jersey, I recommend Bob Di'Antonio's "Mountain Bike America: Greater Philadelphia Area." This book covers some S. Jersy rides as well as nearby Philadelpha and Eastern Pennsylvania.
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Summary: One of the best NJ trail books around!
Review: I have many trail guides/books, but this one beats them all. First, the trail maps are accurate and clear. From my experience, accurate trail maps are hard to find. The author not only provides accurate maps, but he also provides distances at key intervals and often draws alternate routes. Second, each trail map is accompanied by a text version of the trail, describing the terrain and the exact mileage at regular intervals. This data is useful if you are riding with a cycle computer. Although the book covers only 25 trails, this book is a must-have for all NJ MTBikers. Directions to the park, history, and other information is also provided. Also, the book is relatively small, so it will fit in your Camelback.
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Summary: One of the best NJ trail books around!
Review: I have many trail guides/books, but this one beats them all. First, the trail maps are accurate and clear. From my experience, accurate trail maps are hard to find. The author not only provides accurate maps, but he also provides distances at key intervals and often draws alternate routes. Second, each trail map is accompanied by a text version of the trail, describing the terrain and the exact mileage at regular intervals. This data is useful if you are riding with a cycle computer. Although the book covers only 25 trails, this book is a must-have for all NJ MTBikers. Directions to the park, history, and other information is also provided. Also, the book is relatively small, so it will fit in your Camelback.
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Summary: Who knew?
Review: I took up mountain biking last summer (1999). It has been a great source of challenge and pleasure to me. Finding this book has made such an adventure out of biking in NJ! It is well-written, has great maps with the mileage and turns and a good rating system so you know what you are getting into before you leave. Driving directions to the spots and explanations of where to park, whether or not there is a fee... it's got everything you need to know. He really did a good job of researching the book and a nice touch is the inclusion of other nearby sites (relevant to the place you pick). One possible improvement: There's a map of NJ showing all the sites, it would be nice if the page numbers were listed there and the trail ratings were also included on the map. As it is now, you need to go to 3 different pages to find all of that info. Hardly worth mentioning, but if there was one thing to make it better, that would be it, in my opinion.
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