Crystal Springs
47-51 R, Washington Township, Morris County and Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Directions:

(From Route 78 East/West or Route 31 North from Trenton/Flemington) From the Route 31/Route 78 Interchange, proceed on Route 31 North for approximately 6 miles. You will go though 5 traffic lights. (You will also pass town boundary signs for Lebanon Twp and Glen Gardner. Shortly after the 5th light in Glen Gardner you will see a red McDonalds billboard straight ahead. Slow down because you will be making a sharp right hand turn onto Main Street, Glen Gardner (a short distance beyond mile marker 38 on Route 31) and just before this billboard.

Make this right onto Main Street, which is unmarked. (Again, it is a very sharp right turn, and there is a large farm and barn at the corner). Proceed on Main St. for 1/2 mi. and make a left onto Hill Rd (628). Go through the tunnel and follow the road for 5.5 miles until it ends. Now make a left onto Sliker Road and proceed for .9 miles. Make a right onto Pleasant Grove Road

Proceed up Pleasant Grove Road for 2 miles. As you drive along Pleasant Grove Road, you will pass various marked entrances to the Mountain Farm/Teetertown Ravine on the right. Do not turn into the park, but rather proceed straight along Pleasant Grove Road, which becomes Califon Road at Morris County line, until you reach an intersection with a residential street marked "47-51 R" (2 miles from the Sliker/Pleasant Grove Road intersection), or shortly after the Centenary College Equestrian Center. Make a left onto "47-51 R".

Proceed down "47-51 R" through a new development for about .1 mile. At this point, the pavement ends. Drive straight, on to what now becomes a dirt road. This is the entrance to the Crystal Springs/Pelio Property.

NJDEP PRESS CONFERENCE - SPRUCE RUN LAND ACQUISITION Date: 10 August 2004 From: "Dan Van Abs" {[email protected]}

NJDEP PRESS CONFERENCE - SPRUCE RUN INITIATIVE LAND ACQUISITION NJDEP will hold a press event at 11 AM, Thursday, August 12, with the New Jersey Water Supply Authority and various partners to announce the preservation of the 290-acre Crystal Springs (Pelio) property in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County. The preservation of this Highlands property will create a contiguous preserved landmass of over 900 acres of parkland and protect the Category One-designated Spruce Run Stream. This acquisition is one part of an ongoing partnership between NJDEP, NJWSA, Hunterdon County, local municipalities, land trusts and the Environmental Infrastructure Financing Program to protect the Spruce Run Reservoir in the Raritan Highlands. We invite you to join us at this event! Directions are below.

Daniel J. Van Abs, PhD, PP/AICP Manager, Watershed Protection Programs NJ Water Supply Authority 74 East Main Street Somerville, NJ 08876-2312 Phone: (908) 685-0315, Ext. 22 Fax: (908) 685-0195 email: [email protected] Web: http://www.raritanbasin.org

http://www.gsenet.org/library/11gsn/2004/gs040811.php

6/04/2005.  Rosemary Cooney, Ceferino Santana, dog Sonar and I went for a walk.  After touring Teetertown Ravine, we drove north on Pleasant Grove Road into Morris County where the road becomes Califon Road.  0.3 of a mile north of Middle Valley Road, we turned left onto 47-51 R Road.  We drove past the McMansions and onto the dirt road.  We continued until a chain crossed the dirt road and parked nearby.  We crossed over the chain heading west and walked along the dirt road.  We passed a pond on the left.  We then came upon an abandoned farm building with silos.  Near here is a fork in the road that heads uphill (we did not follow it).  We came to another pond, also on the left.  Next along the road were a second and third abandoned house.  Turned left heading south, leaving the dirt road.  The path heads along the second pond.  Reach another abandoned house.  A fellow is fishing for bass.  This is where the trail sort of officially ends because from here it is hard going.  The sides of the pond are very wet and it is no easy matter to walk farther with just tennis shoes.  We did it for awhile, but the gang did not like it.  So we turned back.  Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

date  =  plants booming on date of field trip, 6/04/05

Trees:
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Juniperus virginiana (red cedar)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)  6/04/05
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Ostrya virginiana (eastern hop hornbeam)
Picea abies (Norway spruce)
Prunus avium (sweet cherry) 
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Pyrus malus (apple)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Salix alba var. (weeping willow)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Ulmus americana (American elm)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepper bush)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Cornus racemosa (gray dogwood)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Rhododendron periclymenoides (pinxter flower)  6/04/05waning
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus hispidus (swamp dewberry) 
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)  6/04/05
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)  6/04/05
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow) 
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)  6/04/05
Arctium sp. (burdock)
Arisaema triphyllum (jack in the pulpit)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Barbarea vulgaris (common wintercress)  6/04/05
Bidens sp. (beggar ticks)
Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse) 
Cardamine rhomboidea (springcress)  6/04/05
Cerastium arvense (field chickweed)  6/04/05
Cerastium vulgatum (mouse-ear chickweed)  6/04/05
Cichorium intybus (chicory)
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (ox-eye daisy) 6/04/05
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)  6/04/05soon
Coronilla varia (crown vetch)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Erigeron annuus (daisy fleabane)  6/04/05
Eupatorium rugosum (white snakeroot)
Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
Galium aparine (cleavers)  6/04/05
Galium circaezens (wild licorice)
Glechoma hederacea (gill-over-the-ground)  6/04/05
Hydrocotyle sp. (pennywort) 
Impatiens sp. (jewelweed)
Lemna sp. (duckweed)
Linaria vulgaris (butter and eggs)
Lycopus sp. (bugleweed)
Lycopus virginicus (Virginia bugleweed)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)  6/04/05
Matricaria matricarioides (pineapple weed)  6/04/05
Medicago lupulina (black medick)  6/04/05
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed)
Plantago major (common plantain)
Polygonum arifolium (halberd-leaved tearthumb)
Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed)
Potentilla canadensis (dwarf cinquefoil) 
Potentilla simplex (common cinquefoil)  6/04/05
Ranunculus acris (tall buttercup)  6/04/05 
Ranunculus recurvatus (hooked buttercup)
Rumex crispus (curled dock)
Senecio aureus (golden ragwort)  6/04/05
Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet nightshade)  6/04/05
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)  6/04/05
Thalictrum dioicum (early meadowrue)
Trifolium pratense (red clover)  6/04/05
Trifolium repens (white clover) 6/04/05
Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail)
Urtica dioica var. procera (tall nettle)  6/04/05
Viola cucullata (marsh blue violet)  6/04/05
Viola sp. (violet)

Rushes:
Juncus effusus (soft rush)

Sedges:
Carex crinita (fringe sedge)
Carex lurida (sallow sedge)
Carex vulpinoidea (fox sedge)
Eleocharis sp. (spikerush)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)

Grasses:
Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
Bromus inermis (smooth brome grass)
Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass)
Holcus lanatus (velvet grass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue panic grass)
Phalaris arundinacea (canary reed grass)

Ferns and Fern Allies:
Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda claytoniana (interrupted fern)
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)