To everyone who responded, thank you very much. Yes there are Blue Mountains in New Jersey as well as in Pennsylvania! Wikepedia has a nice article on the Pennsylvania ridge and notes that it runs into New Jersey. It is part of the Kittatinny mountain range. By coincidence, I found an article written in 1885 which notes the Blue Mountains in New Jersey as running from the Delaware Water Gap over to the falls on the Passaic River. See: http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/usa-newjersey.htm These mountains would be close enough for the 2 hunters from Bloomsbury, noted in the Hunterdon Republican article, to travel to. These 2 men had also taken fishing trips together to Pennsylvania in past newspaper items. This still leaves the Ringoes group's excursion by wagon to the Blue Mountains in doubt. Since the time frame was not given in the item, it would be difficult to assume that they travelled some 40 or 50 miles up to Northern New Jersey for their outing. We will probably never know. However, I have sent an email to the Park Ranger for the Sourland Mountain Preserve and perhaps an answer is forthcoming!? I Googled ["Blue Mountains" "Sourland Mountains"] and got 2 hits. Both of them where in Australia or New Zealand! Again, thanks for all who responded, if I get anything further, I'll post it! MrBill