View Full Version : where is sunfish pond and this lovely sunset picture
WOW...saw these gorgeous photos of sunfish pond and the sunset picture. where are they found? in maine?
This stuff really gets my mouth watering for the at thru hike I am planning for starting spring 06!
Lone Wolf
10-09-2005, 19:13
In New Jersey.
Kerosene
10-09-2005, 19:56
I seem to recall that this may be the southernmost glacial pond in the U.S., located about 4 miles trail north of the Delaware Water Gap and I-80. Here is a link to a loop hike: http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/stackpole/mida_mohic3.htm
saimyoji
10-09-2005, 20:10
Yeah, Sunfish Pond is about 3.75 mi north of the Dunnfield creek parking lot at DWG. A pretty good hike, not too strenuous, no major ascents. Don't swim in the pond (when anyone is looking) or you're likely to get a ticket (20-30$). Try it in winter for a really different experience. I met a guy with two dogs that just ran straight out onto the frozen ice. I thought they were goners. It was about 70 at the parking lot that day in Nov. and about 40 when I got up to the pond. It started snowing on the way down. I had about a 1/4 inch of snow on me by the time I got back down. Big difference between the lot and 1200' up on the ridge. Hike prepared for anything: rattlers, bears, skunks, even ran into a youth group with a blind woman one day....
Its the most popular hiking spot in NJ. If you don't like crowds, do it at a time that most normal people don't hike.
Lone Wolf
10-09-2005, 20:16
I have a photo of myself blue-blazing ON the pond in 2000. It was December.