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The Pinelands Center at Mount Misery (more commonly known as Mount Misery) is a Methodist retreat center and campground in Browns Mills, New Jersey in the United States.. The center is located on 150 acres near Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, within the New Jersey Pine Barrens on a narrow dirt road known as "Mount Misery Road", near Route 70.
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.
Large open area with beaver dams on the Mullica River southeast of Lake Atsion. Between 170–200 million years ago, the Atlantic coastal plain began to form.. The Barrens formed in the southernmost and newest land area in New Jersey 1.8 to 65 million years ago, during the Tertiary era.
Pinelands map. Pinelands National Reserve is a national reserve that encompasses much of 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.
Parvin State Park is in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey, [1] 5 miles west of Vineland, in an agricultural area. [2] The largest lake in the park is Parvin Lake, which occupies much of the eastern corner of the park and into which flows a stream, the Muddy Run ; there is a smaller lake, Thundergust Lake, to the south of Parvin Lake.
Gateway National Recreation Area is a 26,607-acre (10,767 ha) U.S. National Recreation Area in New York City and Monmouth County, New Jersey. It provides recreational opportunities that are not commonly found in a dense urban environment, including ocean swimming, bird watching, boating, hiking and camping. [3]
Belleplain State Forest is a 21,320-acre (86.3 km 2) New Jersey State Forest in northern Cape May County and eastern Cumberland County. It has many young pine, oak and Atlantic white cedar trees, having better soil than the northern Pine Barrens. It was established in 1928 and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up camps in 1933, and ...
Turkey Swamp Park is a 2,388-acre (966 ha) county park and nature preserve in Freehold Township, New Jersey. Within the northernmost fringes of the Pine Barrens , [ 1 ] the Turkey Swamp area is located on a ridge , being a major drainage divide within Central New Jersey .