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These locations rated among the best picnic spots in the country in a Mixbook survey of 3,000 respondent. Three NJ locations voted top hidden gem picnic spots in America Skip to main content
Hartshorne Woods Park (pronounced: hurt-shern) is a 736-acre (298 ha) county park located in Northern Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, in New Jersey's Bayshore Region. The park has 16 miles (26 km) of trails, several old military bunkers and a small beach with a fishing pier.
The restrooms along the Loantaka Way Trails are cleaned daily during the summer and each rest area features a working water fountain except during the winter. In addition, there are picnic areas and grills near the South Street and Kitchell Road entrances. [2] There is a children's play area near the South Street entrance.
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 property was purchased by the New Jersey Green Acres program in 1994 to create the park. The house is now the visitor center. The Slater House was built in 1874 by Charles K. Slater. Once the park administrative office, it now is the District 3 Headquarters of the New Jersey State Park Police. [2]
Operated by the New Jersey Audubon Society, features a gallery with exhibits from local artists, aquariums, a second story viewing deck and a third story viewing tower New Weis Center for Education, Arts & Recreation: Ringwood: Passaic: Gateway Region: website, 152-acre environmental, nature and education center; located in the former Weis ...
Warinanco Park's Azalea Garden many decades ago. The Caxton Brown Memorial Azalea Garden, located just south of the Warinanco Park Administration building. [6] The garden is dedicated to the memory of Caxton Brown of Summit, New Jersey (1879-1952), who helped create, and was a member of, the Union County Park Commission. [7]
An area of the park lies within the Spotswood outlier of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. [4] Wildlife is typical of the Northeastern coastal forests , including wild turkey and deer . The park is connected to sports fields operated by Monroe Township High School , and located in the municipalities of Monroe Township and Jamesburg in Middlesex ...