The view from Terrace Pond
| 28 Mar 2013 | 12:17
Photos by Pam Chergotis This is one of many beaver lodges in the wetland along the yellow trail. Beavers spend their winters sheltered in their lodges, which they build with mud and branches that they cut and drag to the site with their powerful teeth. The lodge's underwater entrances keep out other animals.
Terrace Pond, at 1,380 feet, has been a popular hike destination since the 1930s. No swimming is allowed.
Terrace Pond, at 1,380 feet, has been a popular hike destination since the 1930s. No swimming is allowed.
The bedrock in these ridges, at 1,150 million years old, is some of the oldest rock around. It's part of the Reading Prong, where prominences like the one pictured once towered at the height of Mount Everest.
WEST MILFORD — There are so many beautiful and different hiking trails in the township. Straus News editor Pam Chergotis is a frequent visitor to West Milford's trails. Last Saturday, March 23, she hiked on Bearfort Mountain, from the P7 trailhead, parking on Clinton Road. She followed the yellow trail then the red north to Terrace Pond, then white, and finally blue back down to the trailhead.
Long stretches of the yellow trail showed evidence of hard work on the part of trail volunteers, who cut and cleared dozens of big, heavy trees that had fallen across the trail during Hurricane Sandy. The views were spectacular at many points along the trails.