Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area News

File Photo by Anna Murphey/New Jersey Herald The Peters Valley Craft Center, in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, will have nearly $67,000 in general operating support grant funds frozen for the foreseeable future as a result of the state funding to the arts.

MILLBROOK a ' The annual Victorian Christmas at Millbrook celebration will be held next weekend at Millbrook Village in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

The Montague Association for Restoration of Community History will celebrate the season by hosting an extended offering of its annual Holiday Weekends.

The Pocono Environmental Education Center, a residential environmental education center in partnership with the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Lehman Township, recently hosted more than 70 military kids and their families during an Operation Purple Family Retreat, a program of the National Military Family Association and funded by ...

This is a spotted knapweed flowerhead as seen on November 6 at the summit of Sunrise Mountain in New Jersey.

Participants in the 5-mile Aardvark Aamble take off at Smithfield Beach on Sunday, Nov.

A Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission recommends approving a proposed power transmission line through a part of northeastern and central Pennsylvania.

Do you know the difference between the great horned owl and the barn owl? You might have heard of a spotted owl, but did you know there was a spectacled variety, too? These birds will be featured at "Fall Family Fun Day: Investigating Owls," which is part of the Friends of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area's Lecture Series.

Here's a preview to what you'll find in Friday's edition of Weekend: If you think the art scene is dead during this tough economy, think again.

8, is the premier of a new walk or run event called the Aardvark Aamble. And as it turns out, the hardest part of being able to participate is spelling the word Aardvark.

The northern brown snake was once named DeKay's Snake after 19th-century naturalist James DeKay.

Work has begun to rehabilitate one of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area's most significant historic structures: the Ramirez Solar House.

Photo by Bruce A. Scruton/New Jersey Herald Andy Shurmer, a Vernon mason, works on the stonework at a storm water retention pond at the new swim beach on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the Walpack Historical Society will hold the annual Van Campen Day at the historic Van Campen Inn from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday.. The day's events include guided hikes along Military Trail, apple cider making, craft demonstrations, and tours of the Van Campen Inn .

The National Park Service will formally open about 10 miles of hiking trails through the Cliff Park area of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Saturday.

Almost all of my "Trail of the Month" picks have been in the Poconos, but this one is in New Jersey, just across the Delaware Water Gap.

The Eastern Monroe Regional Parks Commission will hold a dedication ceremony for the campsite within Mount Nebo Regional Park on Saturday Oct.

I only wish someone had come up with this idea when I was a competitive runner: a 5-mile road race with an accompanying 5K walk) in the beautiful Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

A dose of Professor Smith's Wonder Worker will cure your sore throat, cough or whatever else ails ya'. Just ask Professor Calvin Roary, a traveling medicine salesman who peddled bottled antidotes Saturday to passersby at Millbrook Village, a historic site nestled in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness of New Jersey has developed a training program and video to provide mental illness awareness for law enforcement officers.