Last Updated: August 17, 2006
In this section:
Events
Websites on Morristown and Surrounding Areas
Morris County Visitor's Center
Official Morris County Website
Events
Calendar of Local Events
For a comprehensive calendar of events in Morris County, check out Morristown.com's Calendar of Events. Note: If this site is down, try again later. The link is correct.
Morristown Community Theatre
What:
Concerts, Dance, Comedy, and more....
Where: 100 South Street, Morristown
Box Office : 973-539-8008
Web site: http://www.communitytheatrenj.com. From the Community Theatre Web site: The Community Theatre presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region. The Theatre is committed to offering world-class entertainment, reaching out to the community, delighting the senses, challenging the mind, uplifting the spirit of the community, and enhancing the economic vitality of the community.
Websites on Morristown and Surrounding Areas
There is a great deal to do in and around Morristown, and a great many resources out there pointing the way. Here are a few of the best:
Morris County Visitor's Center
Morris
County Visitors Center
6 Court Street
Morristown, NJ 07960
973-631-5151
From their website: The Morris County Visitors Center (MCVC) provides services that market Morris County as a tourist destination, encouraging visitors and residents to take full advantage of the area’s exceptional historical, cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities.
Here are some of the services they offer:
- Information: hundreds of materials representing the historic, cultural and recreational entities in one central location.
- Personal assistance: the office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00am - 4:00pm, and Saturday mornings during the summer when guided walking tours are given.
- Calendar of events: posted monthly, featuring all there is to see and do in Morris County.
- Tour services: for groups needing assistance in planning an area visit.
- Encouraging heritage/cultural tourism: through active measures that promote preservation and understanding of our local history and culture.
- Walking Tours: self-guided tours throughout the year, a special heritage education tour geared for 3-5 grade students, and guided summer walking tour series.
And they have all the maps you could possibly want, including:
- NJ State map.
- Morris County Bicycle & Pedestrian user guide and map.
- Morristown Historical Walking Tour map.
- Traction Line map (local hiking / biking track located about 100 meters from Morris Place).
Morris County Park Commission
From their website: With over 31 recreational, cultural, historic, and educational sites waiting to be discovered, the Morris County Park System invites you to explore over 13,500 acres of picturesque landscapes, a multitude of recreational facilities, and historic and cultural sites.
Throughout the year, recreational and sporting activities within the park system abound. Play a challenging round of golf at one of three award-winning golf courses. Stroll through exquisite gardens at exquisite arboretums or hike on a well-groomed trail network. Take private ice-skating lessons or attend an outdoor concert. Choose from hiking, camping, bicycle tours, equestrian activities, swimming, cross-country skiing, ice-skating, and sledding... there is something for everyone.
I've been to, and highly recommend, the following: (all of these places are accessible by bike from Morris Place)
Traction Line
The Traction Line Recreation Trail is popular for biking, jogging, cross country skiing, walking and strollers. Motorized vehicles are not permitted on the Trail. It's located about 100 meters from Morris Place, and goes all the way to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Florham Park.
Frelinghuysen Arboretum
An arboretum is a collection of woody trees and shrubs cultivated and labeled for educational and scientific purposes. The beautiful 127-acre Frelinghuysen Arboretum more than satisfies that definition, offering visitors a serene place to relax as well as to learn more about plants well-suited to the soils and climate of Morris County. Surrounding a magnificent Colonial Revival mansion, the woodlands, meadows, beautiful gardens and distinctive collections of trees and shrubs of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum make the ideal setting for leisurely strolls and summer concerts. Self-guiding trail booklets are available at the reception desk to enrich one's visit to this singular property.
Loantaka Brook Reservation
The Reservation includes Seaton Hackney Stables, South Street Recreation Area, Loantaka Brook Park at Kitchell Road, and the Loantaka Way trail access area. It encompasses more than 570 acres and is adjacent to one of the more populated urbanized areas of the county. There are nearly five miles of trails in the park which provide biking, jogging, hiking, horseback riding and cross-country skiing opportunities. Three ballfields provide area softball teams with facilities for friendly competition. Completed in 1989, the renovated South Street Recreation Area has a new group shelter, larger parking lot, and a Joint- Use Exercise Cluster, for use by disabled and able-bodied individuals. The fun arch, formerly located at the Kitchell Road area, has recently been replaced by a more creative play area that clearly offers greater chances for happy times for youngsters. Although the most common uses of the park are for trail- oriented activities, the picnic facilities are frequently busy on sunny summer days. Currently efforts to preserve the Loantaka Moraine, wetlands, and other sensitive areas adjacent to the Reservation are under way.
Patriots' Path
If you enjoy recreational activities like biking, horseback riding, cross country skiing and hiking, the Morris County Park Commission has the trail for you. Patriots' Path is a gradually developing network of hiking, biking and equestrian trails and green open spaces linking several dozen Federal, state, county and municipal parks, watershed lands, historic sites and other points of interest across Morris County. The purpose of the trail system is to provide opportunities for passive outdoor recreation while protecting and enhancing the environmental and aesthetic integrity of the stream valleys and uplands through which it passes.
The trail system is stabilized in many sections with crushed stone and gravel, other areas are left as narrow paths on earth and rock and shorter sections in Morristown and Morris Twp. area are paved. Several miles lie on cinder and gravel beds of old railroad lines. Sturdy hiking boots and a cool refreshment are recommended when long walks are planned. Learn more here.
Morristown, NJ Online
From
their website: Morristown, NJ Online is hosted by the Morristown Partnership,
where we bring the people, businesses and organizations in our community
together. The energized downtown is the perfect setting for dining, entertainment,
special events and of course shopping!
Their site covers a lot of ground, including: Things to Do and Special Events, News, Business Directories, Restaurants, Community (Education, Places of Worship, and Town Government), Exploring Morristown, and much more!
Official Morris County Website
From their website: Welcome to Morris County’s Official Government Web site, a useful tool that makes it easier for Morris County residents to learn about and access the services and programs offered by the county government and many of the non-profit agencies in the county.
Check out the comprehensive News section of the site; it includes everything from information about Computer and Electronics Recycling Day, to career seminars, country grants, to how you can help control mosquitoes. It's well worth checking out. The site also has a lot of good information on county municipalities, schools, libraries, transportation, and demographics, and a comprehensive listing of government and non-profit links.
PreventionWorks-NJ
PrecentionWorks-NJ
is the official website of Morris County Safe Communities / Northern NJ
SAFE KIDS! Their mission is to reduce fatalities, injuries, and property
damage due to unintentional injuries on the road, at home, and at play.
They offer advice on safety at home, on the road, and at play. They have a newsletter and quarterly meetings in Morris Plains.
Morristown.com
From their website: This site is dedicated to all of the people of this wonderful town and county. As the County Seat, Morristown boasts fabulous restaurants, museums, parks, businesses, schools and direct transportation into New York!
The site hosts a very comprehensive calendar of Morris County events. Be sure to check it out. (Note: If this site is down, try again later. The link is correct.)