New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania - New Jersey (Chapter)

This is the New Jersey chapter from Lonely Planet's New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania guidebook.

New Jersey has been a national punchline since at least the 1800s. The state is, by turns, venal, greedy, smelly, rude, hopelessly corrupt and hilariously inept, but it’s also as complex and diverse a state as America offers. It’s a mighty, pugnacious little dynamo.

• take in New Jersey’s best views while strolling the Hoboken waterfront and High Point hilltop
• maps
• swim at Island Beach State Park and Cape May
• transportation
• impress bouncers at the nightspots in Atlantic City
• restaurants & accommodations

Coverage includes: History, Land & Climate, National & State Parks, Jersey Shore, Sandy Hook, Highlands & Atlantic Highlands, Red Bank, Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Belmar & around, Spring Lake, Manasquan, Point Pleasant, Seaside Heights & around, Tom's River & around, Island Beach State Park, Long Beach Island, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, Meadowlands, Montclair & around, Morristown & around, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Skylands & the Appalachian Trail, New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, Lambertville & around, Camden, Pine Barrens, Atlantic City & around, Ocean City, Wildwoods and Cape May.