Walpack Is A Tiny Slice Of Historic NJ

Deep in the woods and mountains of northwest New Jersey, up a long dirt road from the scenic Buttermilk Falls, sits the state's third-smallest municipality.
Walpack Township NJ boasts a population of 15, a small town permanently shrunk to a tiny size 50 years ago after the Army Corps of Engineers displaced residents for a dam that was never built.
"We don't have a police department, a fire department, a road department. We don't have anything like that," said Jim Heigis, the owner of the Walpack Inn who is also one of three members of the township committee. "But that's OK. We really don't need it."
Heigis' inn could see over 1,000 patrons come in and out on a busy weekend, enjoying food, drinks and the comfort of seating areas featuring hand-carved coffee tables.
But the abandoned buildings in Walpack Center, which serves as the township's downtown, have earned Walpack the nickname "the town that time forgot."