President: Woodrow
Wilson
Start Point: Asbury - 10km Walk (YR736) Jan 1-Dec 31
New Jersey
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President: Woodrow
Wilson |
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Start Point: Asbury - 10km Walk (YR736) Jan 1-Dec 31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0776, Princeton Area Walkers |
| History Lesson: Asbury Park was the summer presidential headquarters of Woodrow Wilson when he ran for re-election in 1916 while on the high school's athletic grounds, the city hosted one of the earliest racially integrated baseball games to be played when the New York Yankees pitched against the Brooklyn Dodgers and the recently signed Jackie Robinson." |
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President: YR1412, 0944: Ulysess S. Grant, Chester Arthur, Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin
Harrison, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and James
GarfieldPresident: YR1981: James Garfield |
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Start Point: Long Branch - 10km Walk (YR1412); 12km Walk (YR1981) Jan
1-Dec 31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0776, Princeton Area Walkers |
| History Lesson:
YR 1412: Trail is an ocean trail along the boardwalk and promenade in Long Branch. It is a flat walk with simple out and back directions. Good for practicing speed and technique. Route passes Seven Presidents Park where seven US Presidents have vacationed. YR 1981: The walk is the Monmouth Route which visits Monmouth University with the 130 room mansion used as the home of Daddy Warbucks in the movie, Annie. It winds through the seaside towns of Deal and Elberon with their unique homes. Spot where President Garfield died is the checkpoint. YR0944: This bike route passes Seven Presidents Park where seven US Presidents have vacationed. |
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President: Grover
Cleveland |
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Start Point: Princeton - 10km Walk (YR736) Jan 1-Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0776, Princeton Area Walkers |
| History Lesson: The historic trail includes Princeton University, exclusive residential areas, gravesites of Grover Cleveland and Aaron Burr and the home used by Albert Einstein. Numerous sculptures and historic sites lie along the walk route. Includes Nassau Hall, the first capitol of New Jersey. |
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President: George
Washington |
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Start Point: Titusville - 10km Walk (YR1642); Jan 1-Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0776, Princeton Area Walkers |
| History Lesson: The trail follows a revolutionary walk through New Jersey Washington Crossing Park to the Delaware River and visits the Victorian town of Titusville listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The trail returns via the Delaware and Raritan Canal path that leads over the footwalk of the Delaware Bridge into Pennsylvania. It continues along the river through the Pennsylvania Washington Crossing Park with its own Visitor Center/Museum/Film and landmarks of the famous crossing site of 1776. Veering through a quaint, residential area, the trail returns to the Delaware River bordering the historic, colonial town of Titusville. |
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Updated January 12, 2008