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Parks in New Jersey

Gateway National Recreation Area

Gateway National Recreation Area

Spanning 27,000 acres from Sandy Hook in New Jersey to Breezy Point in New York City, the park is both the gateway from the ocean into New York Harbor ...

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Great Egg Harbor River

Great Egg Harbor River

The River gradually widens as it picks up the waters of 17 tributaries on its way to Great Egg Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. Established by Congress ...

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Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

Silk cloth and steam locomotives; textiles and continuous paper rolls; firearms and aircraft engines. What do these things have in common? All were ma ...

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Morristown National Historical Park

Morristown National Historical Park

Morristown National Historical Park commemorates the sites of General Washington and the Continental army’s winter encampment of December 1779 to June ...

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Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Today, the brick buildings on Main Street in West Orange, NJ seem quiet, betraying little evidence of the research, development, and innovation of the ...

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New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve

New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve

This is truly a special place. It's classified as a United States Biosphere Reserve and in 1978 was established by Congress as the country’s first Nat ...

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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Situated within the most densely populated region of the United States, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area provides a unique opportunity to e ...

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Appalachian National Scenic Trail

Appalachian National Scenic Trail

The Appalachian Trail is a 2,190+ mile long public footpath that traverses the scenic, wooded, pastoral, wild, and culturally resonant lands of the Ap ...

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Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River

Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River

The Delaware River, the largest free-flowing river in the eastern United States, runs past forests, farmlands and villages. It also links some of the ...

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Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail

Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail

In 1781, General Rochambeau’s French Army joined forces with General Washington’s Continental Army to fight the British Army in Yorktown, Virginia. Wi ...

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Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument

Millions of Americans and people around the world have ancestors who came through Ellis Island. The Main Immigration Building was the epicenter of one ...

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