About the New Jersey Zone

A regional hub for outdoor communities across New Jersey, including Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Trenton, Camden, Atlantic City, the Delaware Water Gap, the Highlands, the Pine Barrens, the Jersey Shore, and the Garden State Parkway corridor. Share local trail knowledge, discover clubs and events, coordinate stewardship, and connect with people across the region.

Includes these counties: Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.

New Jersey’s outdoor landscape ranges from the Appalachian ridges, forests, and Delaware River corridor of the northwest to the farms, forests, and wetlands of the New Jersey Pinelands and the beaches, dunes, bays, and salt marshes of the Atlantic coast. Notable managed lands include Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, the Sandy Hook unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, High Point State Park, Wharton State Forest, Island Beach State Park, and the Batona Trail corridor.