Yep, Wharton State Forest is part of the Pinelands area, combined with Brenden Byrne, and Bass River state forests it totals over 1,000,000 (one million) acres in central and south Jersey. A lot of the trails are just two tracks with out much challenge, except for deep sand, sometimes deep water, fallen trees to climb over and tight twisty stuff between the trees, but it's quite scenic, and there are some hidden areas like this one that you can play in. You can also cover a lot of ground in a day and see some pretty cool things like abondoned old villages and forge sites. Back in the 1800's the area was big into iron ore smelting and and iron fabrication, many of the trails today were once actual wagon roads from place to place. There are many streams and lakes and the whole area is really quite a treasure for being in the most densely populated state in the US. OK, enough of the history narrative.
The Pine barrrens are not much of a challenge to those who are into hard core rock crawling, but the trails are fun, fast and mostly easy on equipment. It still is possible to break stuff though, just ask Bob, who rolled his Sammy when I took him out to this hill! And going into an untested water hole can be a real eye opener too.
The Turbo Tracker does make it look easy, mostly because the 4.25 xfer case gears and front and rear lockers allow it to go slow and easy up just about anything. Driver is just along for the ride
The Rubicon tried to follow me up, lack of ground clearence stopped him dead. That'll teach that jeeper to follow a ZUK
A couple years back I tried to organize a day ride for some of the Zuk folks within driving distance, but it didn't really take off. Just a couple showed. The fall here is a paticularly nice time for a day's ride and camping is really nice too. I know Ecoast keeps sayin' he wants to come down for a ride, maybe we can get together this fall.