thumb|300px|right|Atsion Recreation Area in Wharton State Forest
This is a list of state parks, forests, and historic sites in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The state park system comprises —roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
The New Jersey State Parks unit of the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, established in 1923, manages over 50 protected areas designated as state parks, state forests, recreation areas, and other properties. The agency also owns and manages 38 historical sites (some located within the boundaries of state parkland), five public marinas, and four public golf courses. New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the Wharton State Forest.
History
Forests and the Forest Park Reservation Commission
thumb|right|Entry gate and sign at Swartswood State Park--New Jersey's first state park
At the beginning of the twentieth century, New Jersey did not have much of a lumber or forestry industry. The value of its trees was insignificant and undermined by destruction by uncontrolled forest fires, and after decades of clear-cutting forests to fuel iron forges, furnaces, and other industrial operations. In 1896, the state geologist recommended the acquisition of land for parks in order to protect water supplies and to provide natural recreation to the state's increasing urban populations. After several years of reports and advocacy of geologists and naturalists (including, notably, U.S. forester Gifford Pinchot), New Jersey governor Edward C. Stokes established the Forest Park Reservation Commission in 1905 to protect forest land and create a system of park reserves within the state. At the commission's meeting on September 12, 1905, the commissioners adopted the Salem Oak (of Salem, New Jersey) as a symbol of New Jersey's parks. The commissioners acquired two tracts in southern New Jersey, near Mays Landing and along the Bass River, as the first state forest reserves. The Mays Landing tract was sold in 1916 after opposition from local officials and landowners made acquisition and expansion on adjacent lands impossible. The Bass River tract became the core of Bass River State Forest. In 1907, the commissioners would also acquire on Kittatinny Mountain near Culver's Gap, supplemented by a gift from Governor Stokes, which would become the core of Stokes State Forest. The reservations, which by 1912 comprised became sites for studying forests, reforestation projects, and scientific forestry. With the acquisition of a tract that included Swartswood Lake in Stillwater Township, the commission began developing parks for the purposes of recreation by providing boating, fishing, camping, and picnicking. In the Commission's 1915 Annual Report, they stated "It is intended to make Swartswood a public playground. Boat liveries and picnic shelters to be maintained under proper control will make it available to a large number of people". The Forest Park Reservation Commission was consolidated with other agencies into the Department and Board of Conservation and Development on April 8, 1915.
State Park Service
thumb|right|The Salem Oak, which was alive in 1675 when John Fenwick founded Salem, New Jersey, has been the symbol of New Jersey's state parks since 1905.
In 1923, the legislature authorized the creation of the State Park Service to administer the state parks and forests. New Jersey began to redirect its efforts from the development of these and other properties for recreational purposes instead of protecting or promoting the commercial potential of forested land. The state legislature established a commission to create a historic park along the Delaware River above Trenton, at the location where George Washington and Continental Army crossed the river on December 25, 1776 before the surprise attack on Hessian troops at the Battle of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777). The initial plans were defeated by a public referendum, but there was increased desire to complete these plans to establish a Washington Crossing Memorial Park in time for the 150th anniversary of American independence in 1926. The park was officially dedicated and opened to the public on June 4, 1927. In the wake of World War I, state forester Alfred Gaskill proposed a new public park along Kittatinny Mountain, "as the State’s memorial to its sons who had made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War". A few years later, Colonel Anthony R. Kuser donated his mountaintop estate at High Point (the state's highest elevation) to the state for a public park with an additional gift of $500,000 to erect a granite-clad obelisk to honor veterans. Construction of the monument began in 1928 and was completed in 1930.
According to the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry administers and manages in its state parks, forests, and other areas. These areas, during the state's 2006 fiscal year (from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006) recorded 17,843,541 visitors.
Planning future parks
In 2006, the Division of Parks and Forestry began planning and preliminary work two new state parks: Great Falls State Park in Paterson, and Capital State Park in Trenton. The state's only other urban park is Liberty State Park in Jersey City. Great Falls subsequently became Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park.
In 2009, the state also purchased in Jefferson Township the former site of the Mount Paul monastery and seminary belonging to Paulist Fathers (from 1924–2009). The tract, which will be developed into a state park, is located in the state's Highlands region on the eastern side of Sparta Mountain and featuring mountain streams that flow into the Russia Brook (a tributary of the Rockaway River).
In 2021, Governor Phil Murphy approved the state purchase of part of an abandoned right-of way from Norfolk Southern Railway for the purpose of converting it into a new state park tentatively named the Essex - Hudson Greenway . The park will run from Montclair to Jersey City. Largely facilitated by the Open Space Institute, the park will also be a crucial section of the East Coast Greenway as well as part the 9/11 Memorial Trail, which will connect Shanksville, The Pentagon, and One World Trade Center. It will connect to the proposed Hackensack River Greenway and possibly the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. The park may also incorporate a "transitway, a project proposed in NJ Transit's "Innovation Challenge", which aims to add a new, creative transportation solutions to The Meadowlands
Recreation and facilities
thumb|right|Post's Brook along the Lower Trail in Norvin Green State Forest
The State Park Service asks its visitors to embrace the "Carry In, Carry Out" philosophy in order to "keep the parks clean and beautiful by carrying out the trash you carry in".
Fishing and hunting are permitted in several of the state parks and forest. Centerton Golf Course, located in Pittsgrove Township in Salem County is located within Parvin State Park. Cream Ridge Golf Course is located in Cream Ridge in Monmouth County and was acquired by the state in 2006. Spring Meadow Golf Course in Farmingdale in Monmouth County was privately developed and operated beginning in the 1920s and acquired by the state five decades later.
- White Oaks Golf Course - Gloucester County 2951 Dutch Mill Road Newfield, NJ 08344
Several of these properties were acquired as part of open space preservation initiatives managed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protections Green Acres Program.
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! Allamuchy Mountain
| 200x200px || Allamuchy, Byram, Green, and Mount Olive Townships<br />
| Morris
Sussex
Warren
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|Located along Allamuchy Mountain and Musconetcong River, features Allamuchy Natural Area of mature mixed oak-hardwood forests, natural fields; of marked and of unmarked trails including Sussex Branch Trail and Highlands Trail.
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! Barnegat Lighthouse
| 200x200px || Barnegat Light<br />
| Ocean|| || || style="text-align:left;" | The site of Barnegat Lighthouse (1859); offers marine birdwatching and saltwater fishing, located along on New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route.
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! Cape May Point
| 200x200px || Lower Township<br />
| Cape May|| 1972 || || style="text-align:left;" | The site of Cape May Lighthouse (1859); premier location in North America for observing fall bird migration to the south.
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! Cheesequake
| 200x200px || Old Bridge Township<br />
| Middlesex|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Transitional zone between two different ecosystems featuring open fields, saltwater and freshwater marshes, Pine Barrens white cedar swamp, and northeastern hardwood forest.
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! Corson's Inlet
|219x219px || Ocean City,Strathmere, and Upper Township<br />
| Cape May|| || || style="text-align:left;" | One of the last undeveloped tracts along the state's oceanfront; features primary and secondary sand dune systems, shoreline overwash, marine estuaries; migratory and residential wildlife species; hiking, fishing, crabbing, boating and sunbathing.
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! Delaware and Raritan Canal
| 266x266px || Various towns in Central Jersey<br />
| Hunterdon
Mercer
Middlesex
Somerset
| || || style="text-align:left;" | Delaware and Raritan Canal mileage including the main canal between New Brunswick and Trenton and feeder canal between Trenton and Frenchtown; many historic structures including buildings, locks, spillways, and towpath; described as "the longest (and narrowest) recreation area in the state. A greenway that snakes through one of the most heavily populated regions in the world."
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! Double Trouble
| 299x299px || Berkeley and Lacey Townships<br />
| Ocean|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Provides "a window into the Pine Barrens history" and region's ecosystem; preserved historic village associated with New Jersey cranberry agriculture and Atlantic White Cedar logging and milling industries.
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! Farny
| 200x200px || Rockaway Township<br />
| Morris|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Adjacent to Splitrock Reservoir; features mature mixed oak hardwood forest, swamps, and streams characteristic of the Highlands physiographic province; provides habitat for the endangered red-shouldered hawk and threatened barred owl.
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! Fort Mott
| 200x200px || Pennsville Township<br />
| Salem|| 1951 || || style="text-align:left;" | Coastal defense battery built 1872–1902 to protect the Delaware River and Philadelphia after the American Civil War. Troops were stationed at site from 1897 to 1922.
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! Hacklebarney
| 200x200px || Chester and Washington Townships<br />
| Morris|| || || style="text-align:left;" | The glacial valley and gorge of the Black River; features the rock strewn landscape of the glacial moraine from the Wisconsinan glaciation; features three endangered species: American ginseng, leatherwood and Virginia pennywort
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! High Point
| 261x261px || Montague and Wantage Townships<br />
| Sussex|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Donated by Colonel Anthony R. Kuser and wife Susie Dryden Kuser; landscaping designed by the Olmsted Brothers of Boston, sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York City's Central Park. Features the highest elevation in New Jersey, High Point, a prominence of Kittatinny Mountain marked by a granite obelisk erected as veterans memorial.
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! Hopatcong
| 216x216px || Hopatcong and Roxbury Township<br />
| Morris
Sussex
| || || style="text-align:left;" | Two separate parcels of land, one on the southwestern shore of state's largest freshwater lake, Lake Hopatcong, another on Lake Musconetcong; the park features remnants of the Morris Canal and Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum.
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! Island Beach
| 200x200px || Berkeley Township<br />
| Ocean|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Island Beach is a narrow barrier island between Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay featuring untouched primary dunes, thicket, freshwater wetlands, maritime forest and tidal marshes; also New Jersey's largest osprey colony, peregrine falcons, wading birds, shorebirds, waterfowl, and migrating songbirds.
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! Kittatinny Valley
| 200x200px || Andover and Andover Township<br />
| Sussex|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Features glacial lakes and limestone outcroppings at the headwaters of the Pequest River; part of the Sussex Branch Trail passes through park; site of the Aeroflex–Andover Airport, a New Jersey Forest Fire Service airbase for aerial wildfire suppression.
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! Liberty
| 200x200px || Jersey City<br />
| Hudson|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Created to commemorate country's bicentennial celebration, features Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal (CRRNJ); sweeping view of the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline; Liberty Science Center; "Empty Sky" Memorial for the September 11 terrorist attacks; ferry service to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
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! Long Pond Ironworks
| 200x200px || West Milford<br />
| Passaic|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Features Monksville Reservoir and ruins of Long Pond Ironworks, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ironworking community (1766–1882) along the Wanaque River.
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! Monmouth Battlefield
| 200x200px || Freehold and Manalapan Townships<br />
| Monmouth|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Site of the June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolution. George Washington and Continental Army attacked the rear of a British Army column commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton; features interpretative center, annual reenactment battle held in June, the Craig House (1746), the Rhea-Applegate house (1745), and a pick-your-own fruit orchard.
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! Parvin
| 200x200px || Pittsgrove Township<br />
| Salem|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Features Pine Barrens swamp hardwood and pine forest ecosystem along Muddy Run (Maurice River tributary). Features over 200 flowering plant species including blossoming dogwood, laurel, holly, magnolia, wild azalea. Historically, the home of a CCC camp (1933–1941), summer displacement camp for Japanese-American children during World War II; prisoner-of-war camp for German soldiers, and housing for Kalmyk refugees who escaped Eastern Europe and the USSR in 1952.
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! Pigeon Swamp
| 200x200px || South Brunswick<br />
| Middlesex|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Located in the watershed of Lawrence Brook, an undeveloped park featuring open ponds and hardwood forests that were a major nesting site for the now-extinct passenger pigeon.
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! Princeton Battlefield
| 200x200px || Princeton<br />
| Mercer|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Site of the Battle of Princeton fought between British and American on January 3, 1777 — a victory that proved decisive in restoring American morale during American Revolution. Includes the Clarke House where General Hugh Mercer died from his wounds nine days later despite the efforts of Dr. Benjamin Rush.
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! Rancocas
| 200x200px || Westampton<br />
| Burlington|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Located along the North Branch of the Rancocas Creek and an extensive freshwater tidal marsh.
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! Ringwood
| 200x200px || Ringwood<br />
| Passaic|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Located on Ramapo Mountain, features historic Ringwood Manor, New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands Manor, and Shepherd Lake Recreation Area.
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! Stephens
| 200x200px || Hackettstown and Mount Olive Township<br />
| Morris
Warren
| || || style="text-align:left;" | Located along Musconetcong River, features remnants of one of 23 locks and section of towpath of the Morris Canal. Highlands Trail runs through the park.
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!Stow Creek
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|Cumberland
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! Swartswood
| 200x200px || Stillwater Township<br />
| Sussex|| || || style="text-align:left;" | New Jersey's first state park. The focus of the park was a place for recreation at the state's third-largest freshwater lake, Swartswood Lake (a glacial lake).
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! Tall Pines State Preserve
| 200x200px || Deptford and Mantua Townships<br />
| Gloucester|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Former golf course with over 4 miles of asphalt and grass walking trails through unmaintained natural areas. Mantua Creek runs through its center.
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! Voorhees
| 200x200px|alt=lakeside pavilion at Voorhees State Park in New Jersey in autumn foliage || Glen Gardner<br />
| Hunterdon|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Former New Jersey governor Foster M. Voorhees created the park with donation of his farm; scenic views of Round Valley Reservoir and Spruce Run Reservoir; an observatory and astronomy education center, operated by the New Jersey Astronomical Association, offers the largest working telescope accessible to the public in the state—a 26-inch Cassegrain reflector.
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! Washington Crossing
| 200x200px || Hopewell Township<br />
| Mercer|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Commemorates site where General George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26, 1776, before the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolution.
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! Washington Rock
| 200x200px|alt=Winter view from Washington Rock State Park || Green Brook Township<br />
| Somerset|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Site of a lookout used by George Washington in 1777 monitor British troop movements around New York City and northern New Jersey when the Continental Army was stationed at the Middlebrook encampment.
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! Wawayanda
| 200x200px || Vernon Township and<br />West Milford<br />
| Passaic
Sussex
| || || style="text-align:left;" | Wawayanda offers of trails including a segment of the Appalachian Trail. Features Bearfort Mountain Natural Area, Wawayanda Hemlock Ravine Natural Area (), and Wawayanda Swamp Natural Area
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Future state parks
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! Capital
| 200x200px || Trenton
|Mercer|| 2006 || - || style="text-align:left;" | Park currently being developed, includes buildings and areas of Trenton's capitol complex, waterfront areas along Delaware River and Assunpink Creek; celebrate Trenton's Native American, Colonial, Revolutionary War, ethnic, and industrial heritage
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! Bass River
| 200x200px|alt=View of densely-vegetated Atlantic White Cedar bog at Bass River State Forest ||
|Burlington|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Bass River is New Jersey's first state forest. Features the man-made Lake Absegami, the remains of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-55 (1933–1942), a portion of Pine Barrens pygmy forest in the West Pine Plains Natural Area, and the pine/oak woods and a small Atlantic white cedar bog of the Absegami Natural Area
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! Belleplain
| 200x200px|alt=Acadian Flycatcher at Belleplain State Forest in New Jersey, during spring migration 2008. || Woodbine<br />
|Cape May
Cumberland
| || || style="text-align:left;" | Features young pine, oak and Atlantic white cedar, and the remains of three CCC camps, and Lake Nummy, formerly the Meisle Cranberry Bog
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! Brendan T. Byrne
| 200x200px|alt="Cranberry Bog in the middle of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest || Woodland Township<br />
|Ocean|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Features the site of Lebanon Glass Works (1851–1867); Whitesbog Village, an active nineteenth- and twentieth-century cranberry and blueberry producing community where the high bush blueberry was developed.
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! Jenny Jump
| 267x267px || Hope Township<br />
|Warren|| || || style="text-align:left;" | The park features the high, long Jenny Jump Mountain ridge, large glacial boulders and outcroppings from the Wisconsin glaciation, and because the area enjoys the darkest skies in New Jersey, the park is home to the United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey's Greenwood Observatory, open for public stargazing.
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! Norvin Green
| 200x200px || Bloomingdale, Ringwood and West Milford<br />
|Passaic|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Located near Wanaque Reservoir and part of the Wyanokie Wilderness Area, this state forest features Wyanokie High Point and views of the Manhattan skyline is part of the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion and accessible only by foot.
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! Penn
| 200x200px || Washington Township<br />
|Burlington|| 1910 || || style="text-align:left;" | Features Oswego Lake and River and a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp, as well as part of New Jersey's pygmy forest.
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! Ramapo Mountain
| 267x267px || Various towns<br />
|Bergen
Passaic
| - || || style="text-align:left;" | Former estate of Clifford MacEvoy on Ramapo Mountain, includes the Ramapo Lake Natural Area
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! Stokes
| 200x200px || Frankford, Montague, and Sandyston Townships<br />
|Sussex|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Created with a donation of land by New Jersey Governor Edward C. Stokes, this state forest on Kittatinny Mountain includes the Tillman Ravine Natural Area, and New Jersey School of Conservation (operated by Montclair State University)
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! Wharton
| 200x200px|alt=Kayaking on the Mullica River, pine trees in background || Various towns <br />
|Burlington
Camden
Atlantic
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|New Jersey's largest state forest, features the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion as well as the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, and the watershed of the Mullica River, including historic Batsto Village, a former bog iron and glass manufacturing site from 1766 to 1867, and extensive hiking trails.
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! Worthington
| 200x200px || Hardwick and Knowlton Townships<br />
|Warren|| || || style="text-align:left;" | Part of the former estate of Charles Campbell Worthington, features Mount Tammany (elevation ), the New Jersey side of the Delaware Water Gap and southern areas of Kittatinny Mountain, including the Dunnfield Creek Natural Area (a Wild Trout stream) and Sunfish Pond, a glacial lake
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Recreation areas
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!scope=col width=220|Recreation area name
!scope=col width=110 class="unsortable" |Image
!scope=col width=280|Location
!County
! scope="col" width="75" |Date established
! scope="col" width="100" |Size
!scope=col width=400 class="unsortable" |Description
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! Atsion
| 200x200px || Shamong Township<br />
|Burlington|| - || - || style="text-align:left;" | Located in Wharton State Forest
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! Bulls Island
| 200x200px || Delaware Township<br />
|Hunterdon|| - || || Located in Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park
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! Round Valley
| 200x200px || Clinton and Lebanon Townships<br />
|Hunterdon|| 1968|| || Trails for hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking; camping, fishing, hunting (waterfowl only), picnicking, boating/canoeing (gas motors limited 10 hp), swimming, scuba and skin diving, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, sledding
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! Spruce Run
| 200x200px || Clinton and Union Townships<br />
|Hunterdon|| 1974 || || -
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! Warren Grove
| - || Warren Grove<br />
|Burlington|| 1972 || || Administered by the Bass River State Forest, this site was acquired from the National Park Service in 1972. This site is part of what is known as the "Pygmy Forest", featuring the groves of Pitch Pine that is part of the Dwarf Pine Plains Habitat in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Features the endangered broom crowberry (Corema conradii) and other rare plant species.
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State marinas
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!scope=col width=220|Marina
!scope=col width=110 class="unsortable"|Image
!scope=col width=300|Location
!scope=col width=80|Berths
!scope=col width=120|Maximum vessel length
!scope=col width=80|Draft
!scope=col width=300 class="unsortable"|Description
!scope=col width=50 class="unsortable"|Links
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! Forked River
| - || Forked River in Lacey Township, Ocean County<br /> || 125 || || || style="text-align:left;" | Access to Atlantic Ocean via Barnegat Inlet, near "BB" Buoy, Barnegat Bay and the Intracoastal Waterway ||
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Golf courses
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! scope="col" width="220" |Golf course
! scope="col" width="110" class="unsortable" |Image
! scope="col" width="300" |Location
! scope="col" width="300" class="unsortable" |Description
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! Centerton
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!Cream Ridge
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!Spring Meadow
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!White Oaks
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|Newfield, Gloucester County
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State-owned historic sites
These are state-owned historical sites in New Jersey.
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!scope=col width=220|Historical site
!scope=col width=110 class="unsortable"|Image
!scope=col width=280|Location
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!Built
! scope="col" width="75" |Acquired
!scope=col width=500 class="unsortable"|Description
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! Absecon Lighthouse
| 289x289px || Atlantic City<br />
|Atlantic
| 1856|| - || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Allaire Village
| 200x200px || Wall Township
|Monmouth
| 1750|| 1941 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Allaire State Park
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!Atsion Mansion
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|Shamong Township
|Burlington
|1826
|1955
| style="text-align: left;" |Greek Revival summer home of ironmaster Samuel Richards
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! Barnegat Lighthouse
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|Ocean
| 1835|| 1944 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Barnegat Lighthouse State Park
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! Batsto Village
| 110px || Washington Township
|Burlington
| 1766|| 1954 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Wharton State Forest
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! Boxwood Hall
| 110px|| Elizabeth
|Union
|About 1750|| 1930s || style="text-align:left;" | Home of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress; site of George Washington's luncheon before his inauguration; home of Jonathan Dayton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
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! Cape May Lighthouse
| 110px|| Lower Township
|Cape May
| 1859|| 1992 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Cape May Point State Park
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!Carranza Memorial
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|Tabernacle Township
|Burlington
|1931
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| style="text-align: left;" |Located within Wharton State Forest
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! Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal
| 110px || Jersey City
|Hudson
| 1889|| 1965 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Liberty State Park
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! Clarke House
| 110px|| Princeton
|Mercer
|1772|| 1946 || style="text-align:left;" | Farmhouse that served as a hospital where General Hugh Mercer died, located within Princeton Battlefield State Park
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! Craig House
| 110px|| Manalapan
|Monmouth
|1746|| - || style="text-align:left;" | Farmhouse located in Monmouth Battlefield State Park
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!Delaware and Raritan Canal
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|Various towns in Central Jersey
|Hunterdon
Mercer
Middlesex
Somerset
|1834
|1974
| style="text-align: left;" |Located within Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park
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! Double Trouble Village
| - || Bayville
|Ocean
| 1909|| 1964 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Double Trouble State Park
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!Drumthwacket
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|Princeton
|Mercer
|1835
|1966
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! Edison Memorial Tower
| - || Edison
|Middlesex
| 1938|| - || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Fort Mott
| - || Pennsville Township
|Salem
| 1900|| 1947 || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Grover Cleveland Birthplace
| 110px|| Caldwell
|Essex
| 1832|| 1934 || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Hancock House
| 110px|| Hancock's Bridge
|Salem
|1734|| 1931 || style="text-align:left;" | Quaker home and site of a massacre during the American Revolution
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!Hereford Inlet Lighthouse
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|North Wildwood
|Cape May
|1874
|1960
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! The Hermitage
| 110px || Ho-Ho-Kus
|Bergen
| 1848|| 1970 || style="text-align:left;" | A stone house where George Washington stayed during the American Revolutionary War, it was later the site of the wedding of Aaron Burr and Theodosia Prevost. Now a museum.
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! High Point Monument
| 110px|| Wantage and Montague Townships
|Sussex
| 1930|| 1930 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within High Point State Park
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! Indian King Tavern
| 110px|| Haddonfield
|Camden
| 1750|| 1903 || style="text-align:left;" |
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!James Lawrence House
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|Burlington
|Burlington
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| style="text-align: left;" |Childhood home of Naval Captain James Lawrence
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!Dr. James Sill Office
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! Johnson Ferry House
| 110px || Washington Crossing<br />
|Mercer
| 1700s|| - || style="text-align:left;" |Washington Crossing State Park
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!Keens Mill
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! Long Pond Ironworks Historic District
| 110px || West Milford
|Passaic
| 1766|| - || style="text-align:left;" | -
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!Lusscroft Farm
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|Wantage Township
|Sussex
|1914
|1931
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!The Marshall House
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! Monmouth Battlefield
| 110px || Manalapan and Freehold Townships
|Monmouth
| 1778|| - || style="text-align:left;" | Site of an American victory during the Revolutionary War where the legend of Molly Pitcher started, located within Monmouth Battlefield State Park
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!Monocacy Battle Monument
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! Navesink Twin Lights
| 110px || Highlands<br />
|Monmouth
| 1862|| 1962 || style="text-align:left;" | A twin light station that guided ships into New York Harbor and was the first use of Fresnel lenses in the United States.
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! Old Dutch Parsonage
| 110px|| Somerville
|Somerset
| 1751|| 1947 || style="text-align:left;" | Home of two local Dutch Reformed clergymen, John Frelinghuysen and Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh - who served as the first president of Queen's College (now Rutgers), and Frederick Frelinghuysen, a Revolutionary War officer, later a Senator
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! Prallsville Mills
| 110px|| Prallsville
|Hunterdon
| 1790|| 1974 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park
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! Princeton Battlefield
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|Mercer
| 1777|| 1946 || style="text-align:left;" | Site of an American victory during the Revolutionary War, located within Princeton Battlefield State Park
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! Ringwood Manor
| 110px || Ringwood
|Passaic
| 1739|| 1966 || style="text-align:left;" | Manor of ironmaster Robert Erskine, who served George Washington, located within Ringwood State Park
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! Rockingham
| 110px|| Franklin Township
|Somerset
| c. 1710|| 1935 || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Skylands Manor
| 110px|| Ringwood
|Passaic
| 1922|| 1966 || style="text-align:left;" | Located within Ringwood State Park
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! Somers Mansion
| 110px|| Somers Point
|Atlantic
| 1725|| - || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Steuben House
| 110px|| River Edge
|Bergen
| 1752|| 1928 || style="text-align:left;" | -
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! Trenton Battle Monument
| 110px|| Trenton
|Mercer
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! Wallace House
| 110px || Somerville<br>
|Somerset
| 1776|| 1947 || style="text-align:left;" | An eight-room Georgian mansion built on the "Hope Farm" estate of John Wallace in 1778–79. During the second Middlebrook encampment, George Washington used the home as his headquarters in the first half of 1779 and used it to host foreign dignitaries and plan military strategy during the American Revolution.
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! Walt Whitman House
| 110px|| Camden<br />
|Camden
| c. 1848|| 1947 || style="text-align:left;" | The final residence of poet Walt Whitman
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! Washington Crossing
| 110px|| Hopewell Township<br />
|Mercer
| -|| - || style="text-align:left;" | New Jersey location of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River leading up to the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, includes Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania, located within Washington Crossing State Park
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! Waterloo Village
| 110px|| Byram Township<br />
|Sussex
| 1820|| 1966 || style="text-align:left;" | Restored eighteenth- and nineteenth-century village associated with the iron industry and Morris Canal, located in Allamuchy Mountain State Park
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! Whitesbog Village
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|Burlington
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See also
- List of New Jersey wildlife management areas
- List of Registered Historic Places in New Jersey
- Palisades Interstate Park - a protected area overseen by both New York and New Jersey along the Hudson River.
References
External links
- New Jersey State Parks-Official Site