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Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex & Warren Counties These five counties really constitute the hidden New Jersey. The northwestern part of New Jersey is many things, all of them delightful. It [...]

Tucked into a corner of Northeastern New Jersey, tiny Hudson County (it's the state's smallest county, yet the most densely populated) is named after the famous explorer and his namesake [...]

The Garden State Wine Growers Association ([telephone] 609-588-0085; www.newjerseywines.com). New Jersey has a fruitful wine-growing industry. It isn't mentioned in the same breath as France's or California's yet. However, New [...]

Burlington, Camden, Mercer, Middlesex These four counties in the middle part of the state, like the Northeastern counties, are not normally thought of as tourist destinations. They don't have the [...]

Ocean County is one of the fastest-growing counties in New Jersey, and another of the shore-oriented counties. As such, it boasts an inordinate number of things to do compared to [...]

Visit a park or forest! Here's a listing of them by county and what they have to offer. Atlantic County Camp Acagisca of Atlantic County, 6755 Weymouth Road (Route 559), [...]

Cumberland, Gloucester & Salem Counties The Southern counties are as different from the rest of New Jersey as a diamond is from a piece of shiny quartz. The Northern counties [...]

There are few things better in life than a delicious New Jersey apple (unless, of course, it's a New Jersey peach, blueberry, cranberry, tomato ...). There's also nothing better than [...]

Bergen County is one of the urban northeastern counties. It borders on New York State to the east, with Hudson County just below it and Passaic County to its west. [...]

Union County was the last county in New Jersey to be created. Initially part of neighboring Essex County, Union came into existence in 1857. Larger than only Hudson County in [...]

Long ago, when the Jersey Shore as a vacation spot was just a gleam in a few visionary eyes, there was Cape May. One of the earliest resorts in the [...]

Another of the urban Northeast counties, Essex County is also one of the oldest counties in the state. It began in 1666, when a group of settlers from Connecticut came [...]

Decades ago, before the completion of the Garden State Parkway, the words 'Monmouth County' were synonymous with the Jersey Shore. Except for Atlantic City and Cape May farther south, practically [...]

Atlantic County is the third of the four Shore 'tourist' counties. Like Ocean or Cape May counties, much of Atlantic has come of age since the opening of the Garden [...]

Passaic is the strangest-shaped county in the entire state. Shaped like an hourglass, Passaic has an interesting and a sometimes conflicting history. It was in Passaic County, in the city [...]

Turn the clock back to the beginning of the 1990s. Minor league baseball in New Jersey was a distant memory. Years before, the state had had a great minor league [...]

This book is a response to those who don't think that there is anything to do in New Jersey. There is an ugly perception floating about that the Garden State [...]

Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic & Union Counties The northeast contains ribbons of roadways, such as the Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, and urban centers, like Newark and Elizabeth, that people [...]

Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic, Cape May Counties Is there anyone who hasn't been to, or at least heard of, the Jersey Shore? Famous as the birthplace of the boardwalk, cherished as [...]