As others have stated this is part of the WMA. No riding in WMA's except Sundays until June 1st. Most of the areas around Allaire and even in Allaire State Park itself have out of control illegal trail building and illegal riding. No one pays attention to the rules. I do understand some are just unaware of the rules. There has been a lot of booby traps back in the WMA because the hunters are pissed off at all the illegal trail building and biking activity. I'm not sure why they haven't gone to the park police yet to address the problem, maybe they have, but it is only a matter of time before this blows ups...whether someone gets hurt by a booby trap, a confrontation with a hunter or the NJ park police step up with enforcement. Or worse they shut everything down. No one knew about this area before Strava but now it's out of control.
The amount of illegal trail building in this area really bothers me because I saw what happened in the 90's when Allaire was almost shut down to mountain bikes. I know who the people are building the illegal trails and they just don't give a shit...they know it's illegal. I used to be heavily involved with ATUG and trail maintenance at Allaire and it's really hard to see what is happening here when you spent so much time building new legal trails and what we needed to go thru to get permission and now the park turns a blind eye to what's going on. I'm all for new trails but done right...not a bunch of unsustainable hack jobs like what is happening now. I get it there are illegal trails everywhere but its just getting to the point here that its gonna cause problems eventually.
Side note dogs are allowed in the WMA off leash in designated areas for hunting. They stock the WMA's with pheasant and quail and people hunt them using dogs.