Travel to Longwood from Jersey City

Hi,

Could anyone please give best directions for travelling to Longwood from Jersey City-I do not have car-Plan to travel by NJ transit to Trenton and transfer to SEPTA-but from there on...seems challenging

Thanks in advance

Sachin

Travel to Longwood from Jersey City

Please post questions one time. This waas answered in your other thread:

You can%26#39;t get there by public transportation. Even a cab would be difficult- while you may find a cab to take you there from a train station, you may not be able to get one coming back. It would also be very expensive.

Travel to Longwood from Jersey City

As Owlyn mentioned, public transit is not an option. I have called Longwood directly and they have indicated cabs are generally not available, their recommendation is to pre-book point to point cars from Center City, which will be about $100 each way...

If you can do a little digging and resign yourself to an inconvenient/complicated journey, you%26#39;ll probably find a garden group or bus company that%26#39;s running a tour to Longwood Gardens. It is, after all, Mecca for gardeners. There are a couple of bus companies in NJ that run day trips - Starr Tours doesn%26#39;t seem to do Longwood, but Transbridge Bus appears to have tours to Longwood. They pick up in Phillipsburg. I%26#39;m not familiar with central and north NJ, but maybe that could help.

transbridgebus.com/philly_main.htm#lwgfs08

Phillipsburg, NJ 1:15pm

Also, you could try contacting NY and PA garden sources. They might be running trips to Longwood in the coming months, or be able to tell you a small garden group near you that you could hook up with.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

http://www.bbg.org/edu/adult/trips.html

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/home/in…

Greater Philadelphia Gardens

http://www.greaterphiladelphiagardens.org/

Good luck! Longwood is worth a visit, but the area it%26#39;s in is an annoying blend of rural and urban - lacking public transit, tons of traffic and beautiful winding back grounds that take forever to get anywhere.