The OFFICIAL Trans NJ Trail Thread

[inteck]

Hey everyone. I just joined the forum because I stumbled across this trail and am super interested in it. I have a stock 2002 Ram 1500 and have been wanting to get into some light off-roading / overlanding and I thought this would be a good "intro" if you will.
I told my wife and daughter about it and they are both super interested, so we are trying to figure out a time to make the run. If we do, we would do the full run over the course of a long 3-day weekend.

I will go poking around other areas of the forums as from a quick look it seems like there is going to be a lot of great information. However, for this trail, what would be a recommendation for what gear to have, aside from our camping gear, that may be necessary / useful? Or is the majority of this run pretty straightforward with no special equipment really necessary? From a couple of posts on here, I may pick up a battery chain saw as a just in case, but if anyone has a short list of "must haves", I am all ears.

Once I have a time-frame firmed up, I will post my dates here and maybe I will see someone else on the trail. Note: We would be going North to South.

Thanks in advance for any and all information.

 

[tkraak]

@inteck please do post your dates once you have them. I would love to join. Thx.

 

[Ethan N]

Hey everyone. I just joined the forum because I stumbled across this trail and am super interested in it. I have a stock 2002 Ram 1500 and have been wanting to get into some light off-roading / overlanding and I thought this would be a good "intro" if you will.
I told my wife and daughter about it and they are both super interested, so we are trying to figure out a time to make the run. If we do, we would do the full run over the course of a long 3-day weekend.

I will go poking around other areas of the forums as from a quick look it seems like there is going to be a lot of great information. However, for this trail, what would be a recommendation for what gear to have, aside from our camping gear, that may be necessary / useful? Or is the majority of this run pretty straightforward with no special equipment really necessary? From a couple of posts on here, I may pick up a battery chain saw as a just in case, but if anyone has a short list of "must haves", I am all ears.

Once I have a time-frame firmed up, I will post my dates here and maybe I will see someone else on the trail. Note: We would be going North to South.

Thanks in advance for any and all information.

As for gear, the number 1 problem throughout the Middle section is water. So I highly suggest a winch (+tree saver / d-rings / snatch block), they've been doing a lot of maintenance and hole fill-ins lately but no guarantees to what it looks like after a rain. Other than the puddles you're correct in thinking it's otherwise pretty straightforward. There's a trail in the North section with a "no through" sign that gets pretty tight and was washed out pretty good last time I went but it's passable. You'll know when you get there, it's a regular T intersection beside some type of administration building and the trail will look like someone's driveway.

Tag me and I might join the South most section depending on schedule.

 

[Rob Frank]

a few of are planning on doing the route South to north in July, full camping trip, I assume no disperse camping, just at camp grounds?

 

[MuckSavage]

Yup, no dispersed camping around. The primitive campgrounds aren't bad though