Mapleton Preserve

Visitors to the preserve will be able to use the trails to go hiking, and it has also been touted as an ideal site for bird-watching. There are several branching paths for walking, with straight walls of trees lining the sides of many of them, though whether to allow bikes is still being debated. The property will also be used as the headquarters for the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, which sits nearly adjacent to the Mapleton Preserve. The management of the preserve itself will be in the hands of the newly created Mapleton Preserve Commission. - The Sentinel