August 28, 2026
My Column: State Line Hawk Watch
A view of State Line Lookout and the Hudson River beyond in Alpine. By Jim WrightSpecial to The Record |…
Johnsonburg Swamp is one of The Nature Conservancy's preserves in western New Jersey, out by Blairstown.
The preserve has a deer exclosure several acres in size, and the forest under story there looks like what an understory should look like, filled with plants and saplings.
I took some photos there earlier this week. As you may have gathered, it is one scenic place — even if the beautiful body of water pictured above is the not-so-elegantly named"Mud Pond."
More on the Johnsonburg Swamp Preserve here.
It is roughly an hour and 15 minutes from the Celery Farm.