High Point State Park - New Jersey

Address:1480 Route 23
Sussex, New Jersey

Located on the Little Diamond Pond in New Hampshire's North Country, Coleman State Park is filled with opportunities for water-based outdoor recreation. The pond and streams are an open invitation to go trout fishing and small boats are permitted on the water as well. Visitors are welcome to canoe and go hiking here, and in the winter, enjoy snowmobiling and cross-country skiing. There is a primitive campground here with 24 sites, complete with showers and a playground for overnight guests. Whether a boater, a fishing enthusiast or just looking to get away, Coleman State Park will make your day.

Imagine giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants. That's what you'll see at Elephant Rocks State Park. About 1.5 billion years ago, hot magma cooled forming coarsely crystalline red granite, which later weathered into huge, rounded boulders. Standing atop a granite outcrop, one of the largest elephant rocks, Dumbo, tops the scales at a whopping 680 tons! Visitors to Elephant Rocks State Park can easily view the granite boulders from the one-mile Braille Trail, designed to accommodate people with visual or physical disabilities. The trail passes by a quarry pond, which now supports a variety of animal life. A short spur off of the trail takes visitors to the top of the granite outcrop, where they can explore the maze of giant elephant rocks. A second spur brings visitors to a point overlooking an old quarry site. This red granite, first commercially quarried in the late 1800s, has been used as building material and as paving blocks for the St. Louis levee and downtown streets. Today, "Missouri Red" granite is cut and polished mainly for use as monuments. Thirty picnic sites allow visitors to rest and have a cool drink among the stone pachyderms. Come see for yourself why Elephant Rocks State Park is a place you'll never forget!