Hackettstown

Understand

Because Hackettstown is relatively smaller geographically than most other municipalities in the area, some of the attractions listed here are in the municipalities of Mansfield (Route 57), Independence (New Jersey) (517/46), Allamuchy (517/Waterloo Rd.) or Washington Township, Morris County (Route 46), but most are in or are close to Hackettstown. These townships are considerably less developed. Most of the commercial development of the townships are located near the Hackettstown border.

Get in

By train

Hackettstown Station is the last stop on the NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton and Morris-Essex lines. Once you get to the Dover station, trains can be found that take you to Morristown, Hoboken and Newark and New York City.

There 7 trains a day to and from Hackettstown

By bus

New Jersey Transit has a shuttle service, known as Wheels 973, that usually has two small buses going in a loop around town M-F from 8AM to 6PM.

Martz Transit has a stop at nearby Panther Valley on some bus routes that travel from Northeastern Pennsylvania into New York City.

The Warren County government runs a bus that goes from Hackettstown to nearby Washington once an hour M-F from 8AM to 5PM. From there, another bus can take you to Phillipsburg.

By car

• The Route 80 exits 26, 25 and 19 are all between 5 and 10 minutes driving time north of Hackettstown.
• From Exit 26 take Route 46 West through Mt. Olive and Washington Township until it turns into Main Street, Hackettstown.
• From Exit 25, going North, turn right into the International Trade Center and follow the signs for Waterloo Village. Make a right onto Continental Drive, and then, at the end of that road, turn left onto Waterloo Road, which turns into Willow Grove Road when it comes up toward Hackettstown.
• Via Exit 19, turn left towards Panther Valley. Follow County Road 517 several miles until you get to Hackettstown.
• County Road 517 goes south through Schooley's Mountain and connects with route 78 at Exit 24, also known as Oldwick, Whitehouse in Tewksbury, Hunterdon County
• Route 57 goes southwest through Washington and on towards Phillipsburg.
• Route 46 goes Northwest past Main St., through Great Meadows, Independence and on towards Belvidere until it ends at the Delaware River bridge crossing to Portland, Pennsylvania.

By plane

Get around

Car rental

Taxi or limo

• Hackettstown Taxi Service: +1 908-852-3111
• Chapin Limo & Taxi: +1 908-979-9444

Stay safe

Emergency: dial 911

Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, 651 Willow Grove St. (908) 852-5100

Hackettstown Police Department, 215 Stiger St, +1 908 852-3302

24-hour pharmacy in nearby Mt. Olive.

Go next

Hackettstown is one hour west of New York City by car. A little closer to the east is Metro New York, where one of the highlights is historic Morristown, New Jersey.

Heading due West on Route 80, you will reach the Poconos in about half an hour. Route 80 goes on and on all the way past Pittsburgh, Chicago, Des Moines, Salt Lake City and on to San Francisco. To the southwest is the Lehigh Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The best way to get to the Jersey Shore is to take Route 80 or Route 206 to Route 287, and then keep going south to either the New Jersey Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway.

Philadelphia can be reached that way, but some people prefer to go out to the Lehigh Valley on Route 78, or Route 22, and then to the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, (S/I 476 South). Definitely consult a good map, though.