Wide paths through bare trees on a beautiful early Spring day in Princeton. The woods are on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study behind the Princeton Battlefield State Park.
Walking the Institute Woods
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Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, Princeton
With an elevation of about 200 feet, it’s not much of a mountain, but the lakes were created over a century ago to produce ice. In 1914, you could buy 100 pounds of ice for 30 cents from the Princeton Ice Company.
Most of the trails are for hikers only, but there are paved multi-use paths around the edge of the park, a road leading up to Palmer Lake, and a single unpaved trail for bikes that crosses over the outflow for the lake.
Updike Farmstead in Winter
It’s cold out and there’s been snow on the ground for two weeks so it was a short visit to the Updike Farmstead, part of the Princeton Battlefield/Stony Brook Settlement Historic District and headquarters of the Princeton Historical Society.
Obscura Day at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Open house and tour of the PPPL in conjunction with Atlas Obscura’s Obscura Day 2017. Scientists here are working to make nuclear fusion a reality.
