This list of rail trails in New Jersey lists former railroad right-of-ways in New Jersey that have been converted to trails for public use, as well as proposed rail trails.
Established rail trails
Atlantic County Bikeway - former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines; extends from the Shore Mall in Egg Harbor Township, near Garden State Parkway exit 36, to the Atlantic County Institute of Technology in Hamilton Township Barnegat Branch Trail - former Central Railroad of New Jersey Barnegat Branch, formerly known as Toms River Railroad Beaver Lake Trail - former New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Hanford Branch. Trail is 3 miles long and is in Ogdensburg, NJ Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail - follows the Right-of-Way of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey's Lake Hopatcong Railroad from Gordon Road in Roxbury, NJ to Minisink Road in Jefferson, NJ. Black River Trail, part of the Patriots' Path - former Central Railroad of New Jersey Hacklebarney Branch, accessed from the Elizabeth D. Kay Environmental Center in Black River County Park, Morris County Capoolong Creek Trail - former Lehigh Valley Railroad Pittstown Branch. Starts in Pittstown, NJ and runs about 3.7 miles in Landsdown, NJ. Columbia Trail - former Central Railroad of New Jersey High Bridge Branch; trail runs for approximately and follows South Branch of the Raritan River for most of its length. D&R Canal Trail Along Delaware River - 32 miles of the D&R Canal Trail along the Delaware River between Trenton, NJ and Frenchtown, NJ utilizes the former Belvidere Delaware Railroad grade, later owned by the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company which itself became a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Portions of the rail bed were built on the original canal towpath. Track remains intact in Lambertville, NJ. The rail-trail was created after track was removed in the early 1980s. Edgar Felix Bikeway - former Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad and Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad. Great Valley Rail Trail - former Lehigh & New England Railroad. The trail is a 3.5-mile rail trail in Augusta, New Jersey, south of Branchville, New Jersey. Henry Hudson Trail - former Central Railroad of New Jersey Seashore Branch (extension to Freehold on former Freehold Branch was completed in 2006) Landsdown Trail - former Lehigh Valley Railroad Clinton Branch runs from the southern edge of downtown Clinton, NJ to a rural area approximately 3.75 miles to the south Middlesex Greenway - former Lehigh Valley Railroad rail line between Metuchen and Woodbridge; part of the planned East Coast Greenway trail Ogden Mine Rail Trail - former Ogden Mine Railroad right-of-way, part of Mahlon Dickerson Reservation in Morris County Patriots' Path (Speedwell Lake to Woodland Road) - former Rockaway Valley Railroad; only portions of the Speedwell Lake to Woodland Road section of Patriots' Path use the former rail bed Paulinskill Valley Trail - former main line of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway to their former connection with the Lackawanna Railroad Pemberton Rail-Trail - extends from Hanover Street in Pemberton to Birmingham Road in Juliustown in Burlington County Rocky Hill Branch Trail - former Rocky Hill Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Runs along the east bank of the Delaware and Raritan Canal from Route 27 in Kingston to Rocky Hill. Most of the former rail right-of-way further east to Monmouth Junction is accessible, having been rail-trailed except where Route 1 crosses. Sussex Branch Trail - former Sussex Branch of Erie Lackawanna Railroad Thomas F. Hampton Memorial Trail - a portion of the trail follows an abandoned "donkey" railroad once located at Crossley Traction Line Recreation Trail - former Morris County Traction Company trolley line. A two-mile (3 km) portion of the former trolley line along New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex line in Morris Township serves as a bike trail under the supervision of the Morris County Park System.