The celebration also marked the formal introduction of the John Witherspoon Woods Trail, a joint project with the Garden Club of Princeton (among other things, the Garden Club donated markers for the trail). The trail begins at Mountain Lakes Park. The John Witherspoon Woods was given to the township by the Pardee family which formerly resided at Tusculum. Located on Cherry Hill Road, Tusculum was the country home of John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and early president of Princeton University. The woods touches the portion of Tusculum that was acquired through a project initiated by FOPOS and funded by Mercer County. The woods has streams and large diabase rocks; its flora include mature beech trees and wildflowers such as the spring-blooming Trout Lily, commonly known as Dogtooth Violet.
