Perched atop the Kittatinny Mountains, in the northwestern corner of New Jersey, is one of the most beautiful parks in the state. High Point State Park is visited by thousands annually, and from the highest peak in New Jersey one can see three states and enjoy a vista for miles around. This park, one of the oldest in the state, has a rich history going back more than seventy-five years.
High Point State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps explores the history of the fascinating landmark, which was a gift of Colonel Anthony and Susie Kuser to the people of New Jersey in 1923. The famed landscape firm Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts, was retained to design the park's facilities. The job of carrying out many of the proposals in the plan fell to the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era federal agency that combined work relief efforts with conservation work. The laborers, known as the CCC boys, developed the layout of the park from 1933 to 1941. Much of their work remains and is still used by visitors today.

Peter Osborne has been an historian for more than forty years. He has written eighteen books on a variety of topics including parks, preserves, museums and historic sites in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and now Nebraska. His two books - Where Washington Once Led: A History of New Jersey's Washington Crossing State Park and No Spot In This Far Land Is More Immortalized: A History of Washington Crossing Historic Park were the recipient of the Ann Hawkes Hutton Park Ambassador Award in 2017.