Explorer's Guide New Jersey

by Andi Marie Cantele, Mitch Kaplan, Andi Cantele, Cantele

Overview

The second edition of this guide to the "Garden State" reveals the historic, cultural, and ecological diversity of the state. Includes extensive coverage of the Jersey Shore and Atlantic City.
New Jersey is a state full of wonders to surprise curious travelers and residents alike. This guide leads you away from the busy interstate highways to reveal the cultural, historic, and geographical diversity that lies beyond the New Jersey Turnpike. For wine connoisseurs, there are more than 25 wineries that offer tours, tastings, and festivals; for history buffs, New Jersey, known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution," offers battlefield state parks, monuments, and reenactments. And that's not all: New Jersey's 127-mile shoreline has many diverse communities, including the historic Victorian seaside resort of Cape May, itself a national historic landmark; the casinos of Atlantic City; the natural beauty of Island Beach State Park, with sand dune-scattered, long, white beaches, nature trails, birding, surfing, and guided kayak tours; and the hip shore town of Red Bank, with art galleries, boutiques, bistros, and jazz clubs.
In addition, this comprehensive guide to the state includes opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, and vacation cabins; hundreds of dining reviews, from diners to four-star restaurants; up-to-date maps; an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to aid in trip planning; and handy icons that point out family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, places of special value, and lodgings that accept pets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881508406
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Series:	Explorer's Guides Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	584
Sales rank:	436,674
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Andi Marie Cantele is a freelance writer and professional gardener who enjoys hiking, rowing and cycling. She is the author of 52 Weekends in Connecticut, Explorer’s Guide New Jersey, Explorer’s Guide Connecticut, and cycling guides to Connecticut, New Hampshire, and western Massachusetts in Countryman’s Backroad Bicycling series. Her work has also appeared in Yankee Magazine, Bark magazine, and Best Places to Stay in New England. She lives in Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills region.

Mitch Kaplan is a lifelong New Jersey resident and the author of 52 Weekends in New Jersey and Explorer's Guide New Jersey, as well as other travel guides and hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines on travel, skiing, and golf.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

What's Where In New Jersey 18

1 The Northeastern Gateway 37

The Palisades to Hoboken 39

The Newark and Jersey City Region 66

West of the Parkway 90

The Southern Gateway 122

2 Northern New Jersey 143

The Northern Highlands 144

The Upper Delaware River 167

The Hills: Flemington to Morristown 185

3 The Delaware River Valley 221

River Towns: Milford to Titusville 223

The Trenton and Camden Area 245

The Delaware Bay Region 273

4 Central New Jersey 297

The Princeton Region 298

The Pinelands Region 320

5 The Central Seacoast 341

Sandy Hook to Belmar 343

Spring Lake to Bay Head 374

Barnegat Bay 395

Long Beach Island: Barnegat Light to Holgate 411

6 The Southern Shore: Atlantic City to Cape May 433

The Atlantic City Region 434

Ocean City to Wildwood 476

The Cape May Peninsula 515

Index 550