Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Some time next year I thought it would be cool to have a "Weird NJ" Cruise. Now, we would only do the things that we could drive by or the things that are open to public, like Lucy the Elephant and I believe Batsto is on there as well. Going up to these buildings on private property is a bad idea.  :police: I think it would be something cool to do, and a change of our ordinary cruises to car shows, camping trips, eateries. A few years ago when I just got my license, my friends and I went to "13 Bumps Road" it was pretty cool. I'll let you research that one. Some of you folks may even be old enough  ./// to remember some of this stuff!! Let me know what you guys think, and I'll pass it on to John for the approval.


A sample list of some of the places include: Won't be going to all of these, borrowed the list off a website.

Abandoned Mines of Sussex County
Old Nike Missle Bases of the Cold War Era (NYC Defense - Northeast NJ)
Blue Hole of Pines Barrens
North Arlington Collapsing Coal Mines
Miniature Castle of Liberty State Park
Fairview/Edgewater Tunnels
Tweed Mountain Tunnel
The Paulinskill Viaduct
Lehigh Valley Railroad Tunnel
Ice Tunnels of Byram
Manunka Chunk Tunnel
The Hermatage Tunnel
Indian Cabin Road
Evil Disney Land
Coytesvill, NJ Cemetery
Toxic City
The Mount Alter of Mount Holly
Runyon Bridge & Water Works Rd
Mary's Tower
Old Stone Remains
Kips Castle
Boiardo Estate House
Ramapo Mountain Indians (Jackson Whites)
Tank Girl Jet
Watchung Village
New Jersey's Stonehenge
The WWI Comcrete Ship
Abandoned Railroad Trolleys
Closed Railroad Station
The Giant Stairs of Alpine Lookout
Zabriski Point Ruins
Robert Cadgene's Estate Ruins
John Ringling's House
Mary Murray Ship (Huge Cruise Ship Grounded along NJ Turnpike)
Hampton Furnace of Pine Barrens
Federal Hill
Asbury Park Airport (Abandoned)
Small Stone Castle on Route 9W
Flemmington Speedway
Menlo Park Museum (Thomas Edison Labritory)
The Bates Motel
Hawthorne Boat House
Wolley Road Swimming Area (West Milford, NJ)
Van Syke Castle (Ramapo Mountain State Forest)
Helme Tobacco Company
Gerystone Insane Asylum
Ringwood Manor
Cape May Point Military Bunker
Curtis Wright Facility
Shades of Death Road
Stone Living Room
Dempsey House
Jet in the Woods
Rio Vista Tower
The Devil's Tree
Old Sanitorium near Cedar Grove
Behnke's Cemetery
Bernards Haunted Mansion
Lambertville High School
Gates of Hell
Lucy the Elephant
WWII Airplane in the Woods (Route 46)
Button Woods Flood Zone (Lincoln Park, NJ)
Lambert Castle
Abandoned Homes in Edison, NJ
Street Grib of Abandoned Town
Ancora Mental Asylum
Vereran's Retreat
Roebling Steel Plant
Pleasureland
Riverside Hospital, NYC
Bannerman Castle (New York City - Historic)
Waterloo 1970s Abandoned Houses
Doodletown Abandoned
North Prinston Developement Center
Demon's Alley
The Pines Hotel (New York State)
Marlboro Slaughterhouse
Kinnelon Castle (The Gate)
Jungle Habitat
Estellville, NJ
Quaker Bridge Road
Pleasant Mills, NJ
Pancoast's Mill
Martha, NJ
Long Pond Ironworks (Historical)
Hibernia Mining Town Abandoned
Hibernia Bat Cave
Hibernia Cemetery
Frendship, NJ (Abandoned)
Amatol, NJ
Batsto Village
Atsion, NJ
Asbury Park, NJ
Midgetville, NJ (There are no midgets!!! - This is where nice older people live)
Allaire Village

[6T5 square]

Nice list Greg!

Can you cut it down to say, maybe , the top 10?

[lovebus (jack)]

And make 1/2 of the top ten close to home so we get more members to go.

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Didn't make the list, that was from a website. Once I get a handful of people interested, I'll start my research.

[6T5 square]

The reason for the research is to decide on one or two places to choose. I cant get people to decide on a cruise if there are 30 places to choose from.
(I'm not sure who the people are that you need to get intrested but give me the two or three sites and I'll get the people intrested)

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Well we'd hit up a couple, more like a tour. 85 percent sure that Lucy will be one of them. Since we actually go inside.

[njgt-1]

If its any help I have the book "Weird NJ", there is a ton of spots and not that far
listed with good descriptions of each.

Hey living in NJ is weird enough without looking for more weirdness, just look at Trenton!  LAUGH@

 2CENTS

[Baha (Shawn)]

First off... The Atco Ghost isn't even on your list! It's on WNJ's though.
Right around the corner from my house! It's creepy...seeing all those people going down that road to do "Ghost time".


Not sure if I can volunteer her but my daughter is a WNJ fiend and probably knows where 20 in our (SJVWC's) area are located. I'll ask her when I get home.

[scarecrow]

Speaking for myself I'm all for it.  $61$ P#3 BO** Sight seeing cruises are more fun the any other thing that we do as a group. If it were up to me we would do one every month hiphop drive&& :icon_sunny: Ghug Count me out for Lucy though. it's at the shore & too mainsteam :icon_puke_l:

[matt]

        yea, a list is needed!

Matt

[skibumtgm]

i can help trim the fat on that list a bit i think it is a great idea.  some of the old castles and stuff are crazy look totaly out of place for NJ.  if we are trying to hit up more then one in a day i think it would be fun if we hit a gravity hill.  there are supposed to be a couple in the area but have never been.

the acto ghost would be cool but i think for that we would loose jack unless we camped there its a little past his bed time  LAUGH@

anyway i think its a great idea greg

[skibumtgm]

would even be cool to hit a couple up and end the cruise at the jersey devil camp out.

[Fire Lady (Michelle)]

Love the idea Greg!  I agree it should be in south Jersey so we can get more participants.  Looking at your list below, a lot is in north Jersey.

The weird NJ then Jersey Devil Campout is not a bad idea... but then we gotta wait until May.  We can certainly do one before that... in fact we could do both... save one of the scarier/Pine Barrens related one for May. 

[40FordKit]

Check out the Carranza Memorial - about 9 miles in the woods off 206 in Tabernacle

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2165

I haven't been there in 30 years... It's in the middle of no where but has a small parking area where we could gather...

[njgt-1]

Theres a completely round house listed in the book thats located in Glendora. My folks house is 1 block away and I grew up walking past it everyday. Its weird since its made of stone and is completely round ( like a basket ball ) with a small cone shaped roof. Stuff like that is all over So. Jersey you just have to know where to look.