Tourism by State

New Jersey Travel Guide

New Jersey - The garden state  

The state is covered with quaint country retreats, Victorian homes and seaside cottages. Bed & breakfast inns offer relaxing accommodations and along with major hotels that serve the state and 13 world-class hotel casino resorts in Atlantic City visitors will have no problem finding the perfect place to stay.

New Jersey Popular Cities

  • Atlantic City draws more than 30 million visitors a year to play and enjoy world-class hotel casino resorts, international headline entertainers, premium beaches, the historic Boardwalk, museums, marinas, lighthouses, water sports, great dining, golf, spas, shopping and more.
  • Ocean City
  • Wildwood Crest
  • Newark

New Jersey - Main Centers of Interest

  • Atlantic City Boardwalk was originally built as a temporary walkway, raised above the beach so that vacationers could take a seaside stroll without treading sand into the grand hotels.A few beautiful Victorian buildings that survived the wrecker's ball invoke past elegance.
  • Morey's Piers
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum
  • *Island Beach State Park
  • *Princeton
  • *Valley Forge
  • Seaside Heights Beach and Boardwalk
  • The Ocean Life Center
  • Branch Brook Park Roller Skating Center
  • Playland's Castaway Cove
  • George Washington Bridge
  • Long Beach Island, Beach Haven
  • Cape May Lighthouse, Cape May
  • Physick Estate, Cape May
  • Liberty Science Center, Jersey City
  • Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville
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    New Jersey Main Outdoors Activities

    New Jersey offers activities and natural wonders that range from coastal areas to wooded forests and mountain wilderness.

    Fishing

    Take your choice of fresh water or salt water, more than 4,000 lakes, rivers, streams and reservoirs, plus one big ocean-then get to work on your own story.

    Golf

    New Jersey offers more than 200 public and private courses for every level of golfer.


    More about New Jersey

    New Jersey is the fourth smallest and the most densely populated state of the United States. It is abbreviated NJ by the U.S. Postal Service and N.J. conventionally. The state is named after the island of Jersey in the English Channel.
    New Jersey was once inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans and was settled by the Dutch in the early 1630s, who formed a settlement at present-day Jersey City. The entire region became a territory of Britain in 1664 when a British fleet under the command of Colonel Richard Nicolls sailed into what is today New York Harbor and took over the colony.New Jersey was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. On February 15, 1804, New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish slavery by enacting legislation that slowly phased out slavery.(Source Wikipedia)

    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City, on Absecon Island just off the midpoint of the Jersey shoreline, has been a tourist magnet since 1854, when Philadelphia speculators created it as a rail terminal resort. It has an impressive history of popular culture, boasting the nation's first Boardwalk (1870), the world's first Big Wheel (1892), the first color postcards (1893) and the first Miss America Beauty Pageant (cunningly devised to extend the tourist season in 1921, and still held here yearly). During Prohibition and the Depression, Atlantic City was a center for rum-running, packed with speakeasies and illegal gambling dens. Thereafter, in the face of increasing competition from Florida, it slipped into a steep decline, until city officials decided in 1976 to open up the resort to legal gambling. Casino gaming. Spas. World-class entertainment. Nightlife. Fine dining. Ocean. Boardwalk. Golf. Fun attractions. Fishing. Water Sports. Shopping. Any way you look at it, Atlantic City guarantees fast-paced excitement and non-stop activities. Year round, day or night, whatever turns you on about a destination, Atlantic City's got it.

    Casinos
    Wild Wild West Casino, Atlantic City
    Harrah's Atlantic City Casino, Atlantic City
    Best Time to Visit

    Visit New Jersey year-round: Summers are filled with boardwalk and theme park excitement and exhilarating beaches getaway. Fall are perfect for hiking and wilderness driving tours. Spring creates beautiful gardens and winter exiting mountain skiing.