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What to expect when visiting N.J.’s state and federal parks in the spring and summer of 2021
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People walk their dog along a trail at Double Trouble State Park in Berkeley and Lacey Townships in May 2020. Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Last year, when the coronavirus pandemic drove an unprecedented number of people to parks across the state, it was exactly what state officials wanted to see even if they weren’t prepared for it.
“No one I think imagined just how intense . the increase in visitation would be,” Shawn LaTourette, the acting commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, told NJ Advance Media. “Not because any agency or apparatus of government wasn’t ready to help its citizens, but because the spaces themselves don’t hold all the people that wanted to partake in them.”
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Get the New Year off on the right foot with a First Hike
Remember April?
I know, I know it was a million years ago, and it was also the day before yesterday.
I m not the first to mention that time has lost all meaning this year, but April was when the state park system was shut down to help flatten the curve.
And when those parks opened again, we all hit the trails, masks at the ready, grateful to get out of our backyards, absorb some nature and work off some pandemic pounds,
This year marks the 10th anniversary of First Hike, a New Year s Day tradition whereby we roll out of bed after a night of revelry and lace up our hiking boots and make the most of the first day of the year out among the trees.