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First Day Hikes is a program of free, guided hikes offered by the fifty state park systems of the United States each year on New Year's Day. The program began locally in Massachusetts in 1992 and then went nationwide in 2012 under the aegis of the America's State Parks alliance.
[3] [4] [5] 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. [6] The commissioners acquired two tracts in southern New Jersey, near Mays Landing and along the Bass River, as the first state forest reserves. [7]
In the state of New Jersey, the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry is an administrative division of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.In its most visible role, the Division is directly responsible for the management and operation of New Jersey's public park system which includes 42 state parks, 11 state forests, 3 recreation areas, and more than 50 historic sites and ...
Allaire State Park Nature Center: Farmingdale: Monmouth: Shore Region: 3,199 acres, center operated seasonally by the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey: Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center: Chester Township: Morris: Gateway Region: website, operated by the County, 100 acres including fields, woodlands and a formal garden Belleplain ...
High Point State Park is a state park straddling the border of Wantage Township and Montague Township in Sussex County, within the Skylands Region of northwestern New Jersey, United States, near the border with New York State and Pennsylvania. The park covers 15,413 acres (62.37 km 2).
There are 25 miles (40 km) of hiking trails and a camping area. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Originally named for the Lebanon Glassworks, which operated in the 1850s and 1860s, it was renamed for Brendan Byrne in 2004. Byrne served as governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982.
Third largest freshwater lake in New Jersey. Swartswood State Park is a 3,460-acre (14.0 km 2) protected area located in Stillwater and Hampton townships, New Jersey.. Located at 502 feet (153 m) above mean sea level, the park is located along County Route 619 (East Shore Drive in Stillwater, Swartswood East Side Drive in Hampton) southeast of the hamlet of Swa
Cape May Point State Park is a 244 acres (0.99 km 2) state park located in Lower Township, New Jersey, [2] with a Cape May Point postal address. [3] The park offers walking, hiking and nature trails as well as beaches, an exhibit gallery, a ranger office and is the site of the Cape May Light . [ 4 ]