People take the plunge at the 14th annual Hopatcong Elks Leap in the Lake, a fundraiser that benefits local children with special needs at Hopatcong State Park on March 2, 2024.Get Photo Leapers wait ...

Sam Slobodzian holds the only catch of the day while Ice fishing on Lake Hopatcong in Hopatcong State Park in Landing, NJ on Sunday, January 26, 2025Get Photo Braydon Coleman cleans off some ice to ...

LANDING − With a turn (actually 67 turns) of a wheel, the Hopatcong Dam fountain slowly gushed to life late Tuesday morning, ending a quarter-century of inactivity. On a set of stairs overlooking the ...

The Hopatcong Dam fountain reopened at the perfect time on July 16: amid a heat wave. Dozens of residents and local officials gathered at a reactivation ceremony that morning, celebrating their ...

HOPATCONG -- The state has posted warnings not to swim or even have any contact with water from Lake Hopatcong because of an extensive algae bloom, confirmed this week by aerial observation. The beach ...

Swimming in Hopatcong State Park and in Lake Hopatcong, the largest freshwater lake in New Jersey, is prohibited until further notice because of harmful algae bloom, the New Jersey Department of ...