Wharton Trip PICS - NJFBOA - Home of New Jersey's Camaros and Firebirds

B4C · 02-15-2009, 10:42 PM

Took a trip thru wharton today and figured I would share some pics. We were mainly looking for the Paper Mill.
We started at atson ranger station and headed toward basto. We came upon this old foundation off of washington turnpike.

On our quest for the paper mill we saw this fire an extinguished it...smokey would be proud.

We coudnt find the mill but we did find this cranberry pumping station very neat.

Whoops wrong turn

BAD!!! USAF bombing and gun range

We the headed over to bear swap hill where in 1971 a supersonic jet traveling at 1300mph struck a fire tower while buzzing the trees. The wreck slid thru the swamp for about 1/4 of a mile.

We decided to look once more for the mill and found it.

Frosty · 02-15-2009, 10:45 PM

Cool pics, I love seeing stuff like that.

NJ Torque · 02-15-2009, 10:53 PM

any weird storys about this one?

B4C · 02-15-2009, 10:55 PM

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any weird storys about this one?

Huh???

B4C · 02-15-2009, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Frosty

Cool pics, I love seeing stuff like that.

I have tons more Ill post more up if you guys want

madness410 · 02-15-2009, 10:58 PM

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I have tons more Ill post more up if you guys want

yeah man why not. they are very interesting. how did you find out about these places? weird new jersey?

B4C · 02-15-2009, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by madness410

yeah man why not. they are very interesting. how did you find out about these places? weird new jersey?

Internet searches, and some of my friends. Some stuff we just stumble upon while were out there. More pics tomorrow.
Heres a link to a friends site he has alot of pics of stuff that out there. The brick factory was very interesting.
http://docsrealm.com/recenttrips.html

NJSPEEDER · 02-15-2009, 11:02 PM

Very cool pics

NJ Torque · 02-15-2009, 11:08 PM

I mean, any info on the old mill or anything... like wierd nj history/lore?

maroman88 · 02-15-2009, 11:20 PM

awesome.... i love this stuff too

69BirdX · 02-15-2009, 11:50 PM

I want to go looks like fun

bad64chevelle · 02-16-2009, 09:18 AM

Next time you go to those places, let me know, I would really like to see them for myself. Nice pictures.

B4C · 02-16-2009, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by NJ Torque

I mean, any info on the old mill or anything... like wierd nj history/lore?

I dont know too much of the history. Bear swamp hilll was destryoed in 71 when a super sonic jet struck the fire tower at 1300 mph and slid 1/4of a mile thru the swapt taking out 900 trees along the way the wreck was left in the woods and that langing gear is all that is left now but is slowly sinking into the swamp. The mill I have no idea. The cranberry pump was used to pump cranberries up from the bog. The old foundation was a tavern. Wharton state forest was purchased by Mr. Wharton because it has natural springs and he wanted to pump the water ti Philly so I could be sold, but he was not permitted to do so, so he donated the land to the state.

ar0ck · 02-16-2009, 09:56 AM

Pretty cool stuff, I remember seeing a bunch of foundations for buildings when we we're in that area wheeling. I'd love to do some exploring there someday!

B4C · 02-16-2009, 10:01 AM

Basto Villiage Pics

ar0ck · 02-16-2009, 10:07 AM

What kind of glass are you using on your Rebel?

Jersey_TA · 02-16-2009, 10:18 AM

Very nice pics man

B4C · 02-16-2009, 10:44 AM

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What kind of glass are you using on your Rebel?

I have a 75mm-300mm lense and 18-55mm lenes.

I like the way this one looks

Crazy tree like 4 growing out of one.

Mill

Latrine at bear swamp hill

Fire tower site

How we got to the landing gear

FBODS4EVER · 02-16-2009, 11:18 AM

???? no jersey devil pics??? nah j/k nice pics. looked like a nice outing

Scrat's_Camaro · 02-16-2009, 12:24 PM

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I have tons more Ill post more up if you guys want

yeah me and my parents went and found the mill when we went trailin awhile back it was definetly cool as hell. where is that plane wreckage at?! Do you know the coordinates to get there? my dad would be excited as hell to see that.

Tru2Chevy · 02-16-2009, 04:34 PM

Nice pics.

Do you have coordinates or general directions for any of these?

- Justin

B4C · 02-16-2009, 07:12 PM

My friend has all the coordinates but people generally wolnt share them out of fear that they will fall into the wrong hands and then no one will be able to enjoy these places because of vandals. Some of the stuff is already fenced in and the brick factory is littered w/ paint ball stuff.

Teds89IROC · 02-16-2009, 08:36 PM

awesome pics! I love seeing this stuff as well

FIcamaroRE92 · 02-16-2009, 10:13 PM

Dude, id love to go there one day, thats is sick.
what kind of camera were you using?

B4C · 02-16-2009, 10:31 PM

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Dude, id love to go there one day, thats is sick.
what kind of camera were you using?

Cannon reble eos XTi

Heres another that I liked, thought I posted it already but didnt.