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Print Friendly MapThe West Morris Greenway is envisioned as a 25-mile rail-trail, whose route would make use of three former railroad corridors: the Chester Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western; the Mount Hope Mineral Railroad; and the Wharton and Northern Railroad.
Currently, the West Morris Greenway is 5 miles long with a stone dust surface. At its northern end, the greenway connects to the 1.65-mile paved bike path that circles through the Horseshoe Lake Recreation Complex (72 Eyland Avenue, Succasunna). Connect to the West Morris Greenway at the bike path's southeast corner (behind the Roxbury Day Care Center, where the bike path parallels railroad tracks).
Heading south into Randolph, the trail crosses Righter Road by Midland Park and begins following a former railroad corridor. Distantly paralleling the Black River, the majority of route winds through the woods.
Crossing Pleasant Hill Road in Randolph, the path continues through the Black River Wildlife Management Area and overlaps with both Black River WMA Trail and the main spine of the Patriot's Path (white blazes). The southern trailhead is on Pleasant Hill Road in Chester, where there is a parking area and an informational kiosk.
The Morris Co. Parks Commission recently resurfaced section of trail from the parking area on Pleasant Hill Road in Chester north to the 0.75 mile-marker. Mileposts were placed every 0.25 miles as part of a scout project, although some have fallen.
At the northern end, parking is available in several lots at the Horseshoe Lake Recreation Complex (72 Eyland Avenue, Succasunna).
At the southern end, parking is available at the trailhead on Pleasant Hill Road in Chester.
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Trail will take you from Horseshoe Lake Park down to Chester. Flat, cinders and dirt. Couple of trees down on the route but easy to scale over. Good shade. With a good pace you can make it down and back in about an hour. Great option for local riders or for a stroll in the woods.
Started at Horseshoe Park, a County Park, to warm up for about 2 miles around. Pretty park, with a beach, however, not open to non-residents of the town. Overall, the riding surface varied too often. Biked the 1st mile or so south, on a wide cinder path, which was excellent, however, as you went further south, it changed to dirt, which was fine when it was dry mostly the case on a hot July weekend. Then it narrowed, then went through what felt like wagon, wheel,ruts, where you can only bike in narrow channels and hen widened at a few points. once or twice it was mud for a short distance. On a hot July day, it provided great tree cover, but was slightly buggy. You could tell that if it rained, it would be very buggy. was a very pleasant ride but not many varied things to see so it became a bit monotonous.
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