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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.
Cheesequake State Park is a 1,610-acre (2.52 sq mi) state park located in Old Bridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States . The New Jersey Legislature allocated $100,000 in 1937 to purchase property for the park. The state first acquired a 250-acre (100 ha) tract of farmland and a Civil War -era mansion from the Favier brothers ...
5,656-acre (22.89 km 2) Established. 1994. Operated by. New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Website. Official website. Kittatinny Valley State Park is located in Andover Township and extends into Andover Borough, New Jersey. Features include Glacial lakes, limestone outcroppings, former railroads, and a small airport.
Liberty State Park is the most visited of all New Jersey state parks, state forests, and historic sites. ... Nearly 36 miles of the main canal remains intact today. The flat path is great for ...
Wharton State Forest is the largest state forest in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [ 1] It is the largest single tract of land in the state park system of New Jersey, encompassing approximately 122,880 acres (497.3 km 2) of the Pinelands northeast of Hammonton. Its protected acreage is divided between Burlington, Camden, and Atlantic counties.
1976. Pigeon Swamp State Park is a 1,078-acre (4.36 km 2) New Jersey state park located on Deans Rhode Hall Road ( Middlesex CR-610) in South Brunswick, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is an undeveloped park, with a mix of habitats including open ponds and uplands hardwood forests. It also includes a good example of an inner ...
1937. Operated by. New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Website. Official website. Stephens State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is 805 acres (3.26 km 2) in area, located in western Morris County, north of Hackettstown along the upper Musconetcong River. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey ...
Stokes State Forest is a state park located in Sandyston, Montague and Frankford in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.Stokes comprises 16,447 acres (66.56 km 2) of mountainous woods in the Kittatinny Mountains, extending from the southern boundary of High Point State Park southwestward to the eastern boundary of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.