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292 ft (89 m) Governing body. Union County Parks Department. Watchung Reservation is the largest nature reserve in Union County, New Jersey, United States. [1] The Watchung area is located on a ridge within northern - central New Jersey, as it consists mainly of the upper valley of Blue Brook, between the ridges of the First Watchung Mountain ...
Designated. 1967. Garret Mountain Reservation (also spelled Garrett) is a 568-acre (230 ha) park located on First Watchung Mountain (Garret Mountain) in Paterson and Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) in southern Passaic County, New Jersey. [ 1][ 2] In 1967, it was designated a National Natural Landmark as part of the Great Falls of ...
The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also spelled Ramapo), known also as the Ramapough Lenape Nation or Ramapough Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation or Ramapo Mountain people, are a New Jersey state-recognized tribe based in Mahwah. They have approximately 5,000 members [3] living in and around the Ramapo Mountains of Bergen and Passaic counties in ...
Federally recognized reservations. There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [ 1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías.
Miami Beach, New Jersey. / 39.03444°N 74.93694°W / 39.03444; -74.93694. Miami Beach is an unincorporated community in Lower Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [1] [2] Miami Beach is located on Delaware Bay, and is part of Villas. A beach with the same name as the settlement is also located there.
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2 )—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
South Mountain Reservation, covering between 2,047 [ 1] and 2,112 [ 2] acres (between 8.28 and 8.54 km 2 ), depending on the source, is a nature reserve on the Rahway River that is part of the Essex County Park System in northeastern New Jersey. It is located in central Essex County, New Jersey within portions of Maplewood, Millburn, and West ...
The New Jersey Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands or simply the Pines, is the largest remaining example of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecosystem, stretching across more than seven counties of New Jersey. Two other large, contiguous examples of this ecosystem remain in the northeastern United States: the Long Island Central Pine ...