Exploring the Devil's Tea Table
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Perched 365 feet above the scenic Delaware River, on a rocky wooded hillside in the town of Kingwood, stands a geological anomaly known as the Devil’s Tea Table. It’s a twenty-foot-tall pillar of reddish colored siltstone capped by a massive flat boulder. The towering pedestal stands at the very precipice of a steep shale cliff face, looking reminiscent of a piece of Warner Bros. scenery from an old Roadrunner cartoon. Hundreds of feet below cars speed past on Route 29 as it winds its way along the river.
Its breathtaking views of the river and its islands have made the site a popular destination for hikers and sightseers for more than a century. In the 1970s and 1980s the Tea Table became a popular party place for teenagers, more than one of whom would fall to their death from the Tea Table and down the cliff. There have been at least two known fatalities and many more people injured that would require rescuing. The capstone on Tea Table bears the graffiti tags of those who were brave enough (or perhaps foolhardy enough) to climb to the top of precariously placed platform.
The existence of this unique and storied New Jersey landmark is currently in jeopardy, as a proposed NJ Department of Transportation plan called the “Rockfall Mitigation Project” is underway that would almost certainly mean the destruction of the Devil’s Tea Table. The project has raised a variety of concerns among people… Read the full story in issue #60 of Weird NJ magazine. store.weirdnj....
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My mom passed away on Saturday she just turned 50, she introduced me to the weird NJ mag when I was little. I’m 30 now. I appreciate these videos I now live in pa and tomorrow my brother and I are finishing the planning for the funeral. I love to see stuff like this it brings me closer to my mom. 😢
Condolences to you. I lost my mother when I was 15. All the best to you!
Cool! I hope they leave it where it belongs instead of destroying it..
Thanks Mark! I was here ages ago. Used to snag your mags in the Paramus Borders store as a teen and go to all these locations with my pals.
Would LOVE a Jungle Habitat update. Last time I went in the mid to late 2000s I heard a loud growl at night a good way down that main path where you can see the animal enclosures off the the sides of the road, and ran like hell. Sounded like a lion or tiger. Couldn’t think of any other animal with that type of roar. It was terrifying.
Great video. Thanks for getting the word out on our local efforts to stop NJ DoT from trying to trash this, and many other, beautiful formations along the river. Thanks to Tommy for grinding it out up the hill!
Thanks Mark. Been a big fan of WNJ for years. Even met you at a book signing years ago.
I used to go here all the time as a teenager. The last time in the mid 80’s we went in the daytime. 4 of us got arrested and my truck got towed. Spent the night in jail. Good to see this video.
N.J., just like my beloved PA., is becoming a weird place to live. What a shame these "projects" are. They don't even pick up garbage along the Susquehanna River here, or even clean the storm sewers in all of the cities. Yet, they want huge projects like that shale destruction to happen. Cool channel, subbed. I know Tommy too.
If you squint a little you can see what a paradise New Jersey was hundreds of years ago.
You can BLAME ME for them closing this down as I was the LAST PERSON TO FALL FROM THIS CLIFF on October 3rd, 2020. It was during Covid so that was partially the reason it closed. I didn’t mean to ruin it for anyone else it just happened. I’m not quite sure exactly how far I fell but my guess is 250 ft because I fell to the road side on route 29 but not straight down to the river and I don’t know how far from the road to the river is. I suffered 2 collapsed lungs, I have a traumatic brain injury (TBI), a Le Fort fracture, I suffered 7 strokes, and a huge scar that required a skin graft. I SPLIT my knee all the way to the BONE. I was life flighted to Bethlehem, PA. DONT PLAY GAMES WITH THE DEVIL. I thank God every chance I get that I am alive!😅
play stupid games win stupid prizes!🎉
That sounds extremely pricey. Doubt NJ will pay for all that. I remember early editions of WNJ in the 90’s of people looking for the Tea Table. Just got an update from Act II books in Flemington, May ‘23 WNJ is in!
The state of NJ has found a big pile of federal grant money to do these many projects. They have completed two so far locally. . We're fighting the rest planned for along the Delaware, including here and the one farther south over Lambertville at another historically and environmentally important formation, and at the Delaware Water Gap.
@@JerzeyBird I know Murphy was chasing a load of federal grants. What are they looking to do in Lambertville? I’m across the bridge in NH. Was just hiking up to Washington’s Rock.
you should do a video of the cave grave
That would be a tough one, as there isn't much to see there. We'd have to re-enact the story using actors, or something like that.
Love this.
Keep chronicling and hopefully inspiring saving these NJ landmarks though honestly "the machine" cares little for lore and legend.
How come so many things are named after the devil in nature? Why can't they call it something nice?
Love your videos
Thank you, Michael.
New Jersey has great bagels, bread, and pizza but natural formations are extremely bland and always evoke the name of the devil. If you move west across the states you find amazing rock formations and actual mountains, most evoke the name of angels. "Angels landing, Angel falls" but the bread and pizza and bagels pretty much suck. It's too bad we can't establish some sort of exchange program.
Class of 1984
Awesome weird new jersey
"Freedom" lol
Bump bump
Dude round is a shape
Looks like a satanic alter to me
Will tell you a weird story, no pun intended. My dad was a criminal psychologist. Was VP at Rutgers back in the 80’s. Parole board at Rahway. One of his cases was a kid who murdered a ship owner in Lambertville. Kid had accused the owner of coming on to him. Store is still there. Anywho, the kid had a strange upbringing. The mom lived up in Byram, right on the river close to the Tea Table. Said to be a practicing witch who would preform rituals out on those islands in the river. Dad was a biker. Since living out here for the last 25+ years we’ve gotten to meet lots of locals who grew up using the quarry at the base & climbing all around the top. Very cool.
I guess you father is not a "real biker". All of them did time in prison. Your father was on the corrupt, assinine parole board and a biker too? I think not. Shame on him for being on the ridiculous sham parole board.