The BioBlitz hub is at the Helen C. Fenske Visitor Center, 32 Pleasant Plains Road, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 (star on map below).
Directions:
From I–287:
- Take exit 30A (Basking Ridge/North Maple Avenue) and bear right onto North Maple Avenue.
- At the traffic light turn left onto Madisonville Road.
- Continue on Madisonville Road — it becomes Lees Hill Road — about a mile until you see the sign for Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge.
- Turn right into the Refuge and continue to the Helen C. Fenske Visitor Center on the right.
From I-78:
- Take exit 40, (Gillette) and turn right onto Hillcrest Road (County Road 531) from 78W, left onto Hillcrest from 78E.
- Go to stop sign (1 mile), cross Mountain Avenue, staying on Hillcrest Road (CR 531). (Hillcrest Road becomes Mountain Avenue after passing over the Passaic River Bridge.)
- Go straight through the traffic light at the intersection with County Road 512, and continue on Mountain Avenue (aka County Road 638).
- Go 1.3 miles to the top of the hill and cross over Long Hill Road onto Meyersville Road.
- Go down Meyersville Road 0.8 miles to circle, turn left onto New Vernon Road.
- Travel on New Vernon Road — it becomes Long Hill Road — through the Refuge, about 4 miles, to the intersection with Lees Hill Road.
- Turn left onto Lees Hill Road and continue 1.7 miles to the entrance to Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge on the left.
- Turn left into the Refuge and continue to the Helen C. Fenske Visitor Center on the right.
BioBlitz 2007 (Loantaka Brook Park) • BioBlitz 2009 (Great Swamp NWR)