I know how this sounds. I’m an NJ guy defending East Coast terrain to an audience that’s been told their whole lives that the real overlanding is out West. But I’ve run trails in Utah, Nevada, and WV, and the dismissal of the East is lazy. It’s wrong. And it’s costing people who live east of the Mississippi real opportunities. Let me make the case. What the East Coast Actually Has Start with the Pine Barrens. A million-plus acres of preserved land in the most densely populated state in the count