Spring Ahead Walk: XNJ

Kicking off the Cross-Jersey Challenge with an old favorite. Time to get moving again! Part of the 100-mile Cross-Jersey Challenge.

Start: Trenton Transit Center

Finish: Princeton Station, Princeton, NJ

Distance: 14mi

Return: train or bus

Coordinator: Charles Updike,916-225-0569

Transit: Arrive via NJTransit or Septa. Return via NJTransit. Walkers finish at about the same time and hop on the train or walk into town and return to Trenton on the 606 bus.

This year we will head north after Calhoun Street, cross the Roebling pedestrian bridge into Stacy Park, and enjoy a more natural course through Trenton.

A 14-mile walk from city to country. This half day event along with the 28-mile Great Canal Walk covers the distance from Trenton to New Brunswick along the D&R Canal which one can choose to complete in one day on the Great Canal Walk. This first leg, the Spring Ahead Walk traditionally is a casual walk to size up the trail and get back into your walking groove. The walking event, like nearly all FreeWalks, is free and open to anyone.

Free parking is available at the Princeton train station. Best parking in Trenton is across the street at the Riverline parking lot, $7.

The FreeWalkers are again offering the Cross-Jersey Walking Challenge, with a goal of walking the 100 miles of the East Coast Greenway across the entire state at any time during the year. This walk is part of the ECG trail from Trenton to New York City. You have the option of completing the challenge over three to five days. Option 1: Complete the 40-mile Great Canal Walk from Trenton to New Brunswick in one day, or walk the Spring Ahead to Princeton and do the 28-mile Great Canal Walk from. Princeton. Option 2: Complete the 50-mile Big Walk in one day, or walk 24 miles of the Big Walk to Elizabeth and complete the remaining 26 miles on the Staten Island Marathon Walk.

Highlights:

-Mill Hill Park

-Old Barracks

-State Capitol

-Roebling pedestrian bridge

-Stacy Park

-Battle of Trenton Monument

-D and R Canal towpath

Spring 2025 Cross Jersey Challenge

Mar 22 Spring Ahead Walk (optional) 14mi

Apr 5 Great Canal Walk 28/40mi

Apr 26 Kruimer Walk 13mi

May 17 Paul's Big Walk 24/50mi

May 31 Staten Island Marathon Walk (optional) 22/26mi

Partners:

The East Coast Greenway Alliance is a non-profit organization developing a public multi-use 3,000 mile trail from Canada to Key West through New Jersey and New York. Donations and memberships help make this dream trail a reality.

Circuit Trails is 800 miles of interconnected trails in Greater Philadelphia in the making, already one of America's largest trail networks. Once connected, the Circuit Trails will be one of the nation's premier urban trail networks and it will provide multiple benefits to neighborhoods, communities and the region as a whole.

The 9/11 National Memorial Trail is a network of over 1,300 miles of trails connecting New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in tribute to the heroes who perished on September 11, 2001, and the heroes who, in response, answered the call for their country.

The FreeWalkers are again offering the Cross-Jersey Walking Challenge, with a goal of walking the 100 miles of the East Coast Greenway across the entire state at any time during the year. This walk is part of the ECG trail from Trenton to New York City.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Trenton Transit Center, 72 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton, United States