An outdoors enthusiast who posts videos of his travels on YouTube hopped on his bicycle one morning in 2024, switched on his camera and took his viewers through a popular New Jersey forest.

He wanted to give prospective visitors a look at the serene views in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, a sprawling park popular with campers that spans parts of Burlington and Ocean counties.

Nearly two years later, he realized the video he recorded that day could hold a clue in solving the mystery of a woman who disappeared days later during a camping trip.

Danielle Lopez, of Willingboro, was 37 when she was reported missing in April 2024. She had told her mother she was camping with her boyfriend in the state forest.

Her disappearance has received plenty of media attention and recently prompted the YouTuber to take a look back at his videos from that time. Last month, he realized he may have recorded Lopez at her campsite three days before she vanished.

“While scrubbing through the footage, I noticed two campsites were occupied. And for a few seconds, you can see two people at her campsite,” he said in a new video posted Sunday. “As I pedal past, the realization that I might have captured her on camera without knowing it stopped me in my tracks.”

The creator of the @FireandTrails YouTube channel, which is dedicated to camping and hiking, included footage from his 2024 ride in the new video, along with his commentary describing the discovery.

Lopez’s mother, Sue Quackenbush, said she is certain the video shows her daughter’s campsite. But she’s not sure if a figure seen in the clip is the missing woman.

She hopes the video will spur others to look for possible clues that could give her family some answers.

“Danielle is loved and missed by many each and every minute of every day,” Quackenbush said.

Contacted for comment about the new video, a New Jersey State Police spokesman said only that “the case still remains an active investigation.”

Quackenbush said she last spoke to her daughter by phone on April 12, 2024. Lopez said she was camping and sounded happy, according to her mother.

The last known traces of Lopez were video images recorded the following day.

She was seen the morning of April 13 leaving a Wawa on Route 72 in the Vincentown section of Southampton Township in Burlington County after buying a cup of coffee.

Around 6 p.m. that day, a couple spotted Lopez while driving on Lost Lane in Woodland Township in southern Burlington County, according to police.

She was walking alone on a road in Penn State Forest, about 12 miles from the campground where she was staying. The couple spoke briefly to her before driving off, then spotted her car stuck in a large puddle, police said last year.

The interaction was captured on the couple’s GoPro video camera and they shared the footage with police.

Investigators interviewed Lopez’s boyfriend, who said he last saw her on the morning of April 13, police said.

He is currently in state prison on charges unrelated to the missing person’s case, according to prison records.

Multiple people who were around Lopez in the days before she disappeared were also interviewed, authorities said.

After looking at the new video, Quackenbush said she is sure it’s her daughter’s campsite, based on vehicles she recognized.

“Her car was pretty visible and the motorcycle was definitely her boyfriend’s,” Quackenbush said.

She’s less certain about what she described as a dark-haired figure wearing pink pants who appears to be hanging something on a makeshift clothesline at the campsite.

“The pictures didn’t really clearly show that it’s Danielle,” she said.

She spotted a second figure at the campsite but isn’t sure if it was her daughter’s boyfriend.

“There’s someone. I can’t tell if it’s him or not,” Quackenbush said.

The man who posted the new video footage said he traveled to Brendan T. Byrne State Forest on April 10, 2024, to record the area for his viewers.

“I went through each camping loop, pedaling slowly past occupied and mostly empty sites, just trying to capture the feel of the campground for future campers,” he said in the video. “From memory, I don’t specifically remember seeing Danielle that day or having a clear mental image of anyone at her site or the one next to it.”

He later posted the campsite tour video and thought nothing more about it until February of this year when he was researching the Lopez case. That led him back to his videos from that time period.

He declined to be interviewed by NJ.com and would not give his name, but said he contacted Quackenbush and received her permission to post his new video online. He also shared it with police and said he hoped the footage would help in the investigation.

He encouraged others to check their devices for possible clues.

“The Pine Barrens are vast, but digital footprints can be found anywhere,” he said in the video. “I am asking anyone who is in this area between April 7th, 2024, and April 13th, 2024, to please check your phones, dash cams and cameras.”

Quackenbush has continued her own detective work on the case, trying to find others who may have footage or photos from that time period.

“I’ve contacted other outdoor clubs and asked them to be aware and asked their members to be aware, and there were reports of two other people that had posted things online of that day and the day after near Lost Lane and near the campground,” Quackenbush said. “So the police are looking into a lot of things right now.”

She hopes others will come forward with helpful information.

“I’m grateful this footage was found and to the creator of the YouTube channel that came forward with it,” she said. “I hope it helps others recall similar encounters and provide additional information to get the answers needed to find Danielle.”

Last November, Quackenbush announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to the “direct location or safe recovery” of her daughter.

Lopez is described as white, 5 feet 3 inches tall, 125 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. She has a slight scar on her upper lip, according to her mother.

Anyone with information about Lopez is asked to call New Jersey State Police at 609-882-2000, ext. 2554, or email missingpinformation@njsp.gov.

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