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This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
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.
New Jersey counties (clickable map) This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey. There are more than 1,700 listed sites in New Jersey. Of these, 58 are further designated as National Historic Landmarks. All 21 counties in New Jersey have listings on the National Register.
It then established Morristown National Historical Park, the 1779–1780 winter encampment of the Continental Army in New Jersey, on March 2, 1933, as the first NHP: The U.S. House committee noted that the new designation was logical for the area and set a new precedent, with comparison to the national military parks, which were then in the War ...
Pages in category "National Historical Parks in New Jersey" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Great Falls of Paterson-Garret Mountain: January 1967; expanded April 1967: Paterson: Passaic: federal The Great Falls of the Passaic River and a later expansion including Garret Mountain help demonstrate how jointed basaltic lava flow shaped the geology of the area during the Early Mesozoic era through both extrusion and intrusion
Pages in category "Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fourteen national parks are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS), [6] and 21 national parks are named UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR), [7] with eight national parks in both programs. Thirty states have national parks, as do the territories of American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.