The Batona Trail — A promenade through pine barrens

Hiking · US · 93 km · 4 stages

Settled in sand and shaped by fire, the New Jersey Pine Barrens are the state’s most unique and enchanting ecosystem. 1,700 square miles of matchstick-straight pitch pines rise out of the silty earth and shelter carnivorous pitcher plants, cranberry bogs, and cedar swamps. I grew up near the Albany

by Zachary