Ridley Creek State Park

I love hiking at this place. They do a great job keeping the trails maintained and the Gary the ranger always has a cheerful attitude. You can tell he really enjoys being there. The paved trail has plenty of points of interest which someone thoughtfully labeled and there is a bathroom at one of the parking areas that’s open year round.

This is a great park to take a walk through. My love and I have been there a number of times, for power walks, strolls, or to give the dogs a long walk. There are plenty of mature trees along the walking path which meanders alongside the gentle stream... our favorite. We haven't explored the entire park yet, but I do recommend a visit. It's especially awesome in fall.

Ridley Creek is a beautiful place to spend the day. With many walking trails, both paved and unpaved on 2,606 acres for walking, jogging, biking and dog walking. Fishing in the creek is aloud {check permit requirements}. Bring lunch and take advantage of the many picnic tables or benches, or grill in designated areas. The park is open seven days a week, with some parking and restrooms. Their hours are sunrise to sunset, so check their website prior to your visit, as these times are always changing.

First, this is a huge park with lots of parking and picnic areas marked by numbers. So if you need to meet with a group, better share a specific spot or pin it on maps. Otherwise you may end up driving another 10+ minutes to meet your people.

Before I came for the group hike this morning, I thought this park is as “flat” as South Jersey. I was wrong. It’s more mountainous park. So there were quite some elevations going up and down the mountain trails.

We parked at #16 and took the White-Yellow-Blue Loop Trails, with a 6.9 miles today (04/25/2022).

The trails are all marked very well. It’s such a pleasant hike with birds chirping, spring flowers blooming, trees turning green all along. And the running creeks or streams you would pass by adds to the serenity.

In summer, it will be a great park to bring kids to have fun in the water while sitting on one of the benches built by the creeks. Or just picnic at one of the parking & picnic areas for your convenience.

This must be a good place to go fishing as I saw a guy carrying some fish back to his car by the roadside.

I will come back to explore/enjoy more of the park.

It’s very calm and beautiful. We went there on a Saturday morning we saw many people walking their dogs. Having a picnic in the picnic area. It was pretty busy as I think it was a long weekend Saturday. I took my cat there and it’s a pretty animal friendly place. It was very soothing and calming. Would love to visit this place again.