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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.
Washington Crossing State Park is a 3,575-acre (14 km 2) New Jersey state park that is part of Washington's Crossing, a U.S. National Historic Landmark area. It is located in the Washington Crossing and Titusville sections of Hopewell Township in Mercer County, north of Trenton along the Delaware River.
The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. In June 2011, William Arias, 46, of Bound Brook, New Jersey was killed by a falling tree while sleeping in a tent in the upper river section of the Bulls Island campground.
Spruce Run Recreation Area is a 1,290-acre (5.2 km 2) New Jersey state recreation area located in Union Township and Clinton Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. It encompasses the Spruce Run Reservoir that is used as a backup reservoir to protect the state from prolonged droughts.
Worthington State Forest is a state forest located in Warren County, New Jersey within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, just north of the water gap in the Skylands Region of the state. It covers an area of 6,660 acres (27.0 km 2) and stretches for more than 7 miles (11 km) along the Kittatinny Ridge near Columbia.
The core of the park was purchased in 1963. Additional land was purchased in the 1970s. [5] In May 1993, the Park System acquired 303-acre (123 ha) Camp Nomoco including a 56-acre (23 ha) campground from the Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts to add it to Turkey Swamp Park.
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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