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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.
The largest of the conservation efforts so far is High Mountain Park Preserve, which at 1,153.7 acres (4.669 km 2) sets aside one of the largest tracts of wilderness in the New Jersey Piedmont. The park is known to contain at least one globally imperiled plant, Torrey's mountain mint (Pycnanthemum torrei), as well as three other plants ...
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 ...
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 Paterson-Garret ...
Pinelands map. Pinelands National Reserve is a national reserve that encompasses the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The Pinelands is a unique location of historic villages and berry farms amid the vast oak-pine forests (pine barrens), extensive wetlands, and diverse species of plants and animals of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion.
Pinelands map. 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 ...
Wharton State Forest. 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 ...
Jenny Jump State Forest is a state park in the U.S. state of New Jersey operated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Parks and Forestry.It is located in northern Warren County in the northwestern section of New Jersey, on the 1,112-foot (339 m) high, 6-mile (10 km) long Jenny Jump Mountain ridge.