39° 46' 29.742" N   /   75° 24' 3.222" W

OLDMANS TOWNSHIP

GLOUCESTER

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I'll try to keep this one brief— this one was really, really difficult to tick off our list.

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Go ahead and pop this one into Google Maps.

Yep, there it is; in a quiet corner of the state, smack in the middle of a marsh, the word "Jumbo". No roads. No structures. Just a name in the wetlands of Oldmans Township.

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Naturally, our interest was piqued on this place simply because it seemed like there was nothing there, so we did some scouring online and found two exceptional informational forums about Jumbo:
A thread on the New Jersey Pine Barrens forum, and

A Parker Gun post containing old family photos from Jumbo

(photos are shared below, borrowed from user Don Mills)

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So, now we knew that Jumbo WAS a real place, and made sense as a community of duck hunting shacks, but we had to figure out how to actually get there.

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We loaded up kayaks with an idea to find a launch spot and headed out, but we were attempting this a week after Hurricane Ida flooded much of central Jersey. Let's just say that, standing on the bank of our intended departure spot, kayaks quickly became a non-option.

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After lots of driving in circles and an eventual mile-plus hoof on yet another hot ass day, we arrived at a bridge crossing right past the old Jumbo site and were able to capture this image while avoiding the thousands of spotted lanternflies harassing us the entire time.​