Sites of Interest Around High Point, New Jersey


There’s lots of intresting sites close to the Highpointers Convention headquarters at the Hunts Landing Best Western in Matamoras, Pennsylvania. They include:

Area sites of interest include:

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (site of 1969 Woodstock Festival)
Bethel, New York (35 miles north)
http://bethelwoodscenter.org/

Gifford Pinchot House Grey Towers (home of first director of National Forest Service)
Milford, Pennsylvania (13 miles west)
http://www.fs.fed.us/na/gt/

Franklin Mineral Museum (scavange for fluorescent rocks in the zinc pilings)
Franklin, New Jersey (23 miles south)
http://www.franklinmineralmuseum.com/

Zane Grey Home (early home of the adventure writer)
Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania (27 miles northwest)
http://www.nps.gov/upde/historyculture/zanegrey.htm

Mohonk Preserve (Legendary climbing in the Shawangunk Mountains (the Gunks))
New Paltz, New York (46 miles northeast)
http://www.mohonkpreserve.org/

West Point Museum (military academy)
Highland Falls, New York (50 miles northeast)
http://www.usma.edu/Museum/

Franklin D. Roosevelt Home (FDR’s Hyde Park Home and Library)
Hyde Park, New York (62 miles northeast)
http://www.nps.gov/archive/hofr/hofrhome.html


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