Paddling near East Orange, NJ

Set in Essex County directly adjacent to Newark, East Orange anchors one of the Northeast's most water-rich paddling corridors. The defining waterway is the Passaic River, a 90-mile flatwater river whose upper, Great Swamp section runs slow and remote enough for wildlife despite the suburbs around it. Within a 1–2 hour drive lie glacial lakes in the NJ Skylands, the tidal Hudson, and the Delaware Water Gap.