On the township message board, prolific and ever-observant poster, Smokey Joe, brings to light the dangers of travel on this somewhat obscure and pitted little Pohatcong back road-and he is, of course, right on all accounts. Ravine Road probably started out as a natural footpath for the indigious people many years ago and was then enlarged somewhere along the way (once a few houses popped up alongside the creek) to help with the new horse and buggy traffic. Since the landscape is deeply sloped along most of this road, it was probably never densely developed, and as a result, was spared the inevitable suburbanization of being widened and blacktopped. It is true that on the Greenwich side blacktopping has occured but it is of the most tenuous sort- one good sized storm seems ready to peel it all away.
For the uninitiated who may now be tempted to drive its course just keep these few words and phrases in mind: narrow, one lane, Mexican stand-off, road-rage.
Good Luck and Happy Motoring!
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