Camden Water Trail Phase II

In Camden New Jersey, the 13-mile Camden Water Trail is connecting current and future park lands and water access points around the Back Channel and Cooper River.

The trail aims to encourage recreation on and around the rivers. Work is underway to provide public access sites, interpretive opportunities, habitat restoration, and other improvements.

This project is in Phase II with additional parks lands, access points and interpretive signs to be installed by 2023. 

Planning for the upgrades is being undertaken by Camden County Parks Department, Discover the Delaware partners, and local officials.

Efforts are underway to add several stops to the Camden Water Trail, including:

• Cramer Hill Nature Preserve

• Petty’s Island Preserve

• Sadler’s Poynt Waterfront Park: Install floating dock

• Pyne Poynt Park Beach: Redesigned

• Sadler’s Marine Services: Potential park/boat house

• Cramer Hill Waterfront Park

• New Camden Park

• Farnham Park

• Gateway Park: Install dock

• Kaighn Avenue Dam: Install fish and boat passageway

• Cooper River Boathouse

• Cooper River Boat Ramp

• Cooper River Yacht Club

• Cooper River Park

• Camden County Parks Department: Install access point

For more information, visit: www.camdencounty.com and www.upstreamalliance.org.

Discover the Delaware’s partner organizations include: County of Camden, UrbanPromise, Center for Aquatic Sciences at Adventure Aquarium, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Independence Seaport Museum, Camden Community Partnership, NJ Natural Lands Trust, Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority and Upstream Alliance.