Physical Activity
Get Moving in New Jersey
New Jersey is home to dozens of state park, forests, recreation areas and historic sites. Each offers a chance to experience first-hand New Jersey's natural and historic world. Discover the many special places in this astoundingly diverse state. The parks are perfect places
to Get Moving in New Jersey.
Follow the Appalachian Trail through the forest until it breaks out into stunning vistas of valleys and ridges, forests and farms. Walk the 50-mile Batona Trail through the fresh wild aromatic pine forests of the Pine Barrens. Swim in icy blue lakes formed when glaciers scraped the landscape.
The New Jersey State Parks offer a variety of activities including biking, boating, camping, canoeing, cross-country skiing, fishing, golf, hiking, hunting, horseback riding, ice boating, ice fishing, ice skating, in-line skating, mountain biking, sledding, snowmobiling
and swimming.
For More Information
New Jersey Division of Parks & Forestry
New Jersey Trails Association
Best Walking Trails in New Jersey from Trails.com
Biking in New Jersey from the New Jersey Department of Transportation
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Cooperating Agencies: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and County Boards of Chosen Freeholders, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, is an equal opportunity program provider and employer.
