Those wanting to take a weekend trip will find an appendix listing overnight accommodations and campgrounds. This guide features more than 100 of New Jersey's most interesting places, including: The best places to go hiking, bird-watching, crabbing, scuba diving, and paddling Artisans to visit and learn about glass-blowing, blacksmithing, shoemaking, weaving, and other crafts Woodland trails, rose gardens, and cranberry bogs A working, wind-powered Dutch grist mill, a tiny hamlet preserved as it was in colonial days, a reconstructed Indian village, and a mineral quarry

A thorough and wide-ranging guide to the vast array of public gardens, arboretums, woods, and parks in the Garden State. In this practical, informative, illustrated guide, Arline Zatz describes dozens of inviting places to spend an hour, an afternoon, or an entire day. Each garden has been chosen for its uniqueness and beauty, such as Warinanco Park Gardens, with its dazzling show of tulips in spring, and Marquand Park, an arboretum with two hundred different species of trees. There are butterfly gardens, colonial herb gardens at historic sites, memorial gardens, pocket-sized romantic...

One of New Jersey's most prolific and honored travel writers, Arline Zatz knows what's appealing to touring bicyclists and exactly where in the state they can find it. These 30 tours lead you past the state's most intriguing and most beautiful spots. The author's commentary along the way tells you everything you need to know about the sights you'll see and the road conditions along the way. The five tours new to this edition include trips past an herb farm; around Merrill Creek Reservoir; along the pounding surf of the Atlantic coast; and among an array of colorful public gardens."