For Philadelphians
The resident of Philadelphia can cross the Delaware and find solace in the woods of South Jersey. The “Penn State Forest” of the South New Jersey group is five miles east of Chatsworth on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and consists of 2,700 acres of pine and cedar forest in one of the wildest sections of that state. In his own state the Philadelphian will find not far away the ranges of the Blue Ridge Mountains running northward toward the Pocono and the Delaware Water Gap, and even these last are not altogether beyond reach of the motorist faring forth for a week-end.
At Baltimore there is right at hand the Patapsco Forest Reserve on the outskirts of the city where camp sites are given free to any who apply for them. Permits are required, but no fee is charged. The State of Maryland maintains a series of camp sites along the National Pike between Baltimore and the Pennsylvania State Line. These camps are free and are “established for convenience, comfort and use of the people of Maryland and tourists who come into the state.” The nearest of these camp sites to Baltimore is Conococheague, seventy-nine miles west of the city.