Welcome to New Jersey

Everyone jokes about the Turnpike, but New Jersey is full of surprises the highway never shows you. The Jersey Shore runs 130 miles down the coast, lined with classic boardwalks — the one in Atlantic City is the longest in the world. Head inland and you hit the Pine Barrens, over a million acres of wild forest with tea-colored rivers, cranberry bogs, dark starry skies, and its own legendary monster, the Jersey Devil. It is called the Garden State for good reason: the farm stands overflow with blueberries, cranberries, and famous Jersey tomatoes. This is also where Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and the movies. Two fun ones: New Jersey has more diners than any state, and you are not allowed to pump your own gas. Below you will find every New Jersey map, trip, guide, and hidden gem we have.

• Nickname: The Garden State
• State fruit: Blueberry
• State animal: Horse
• State bird: Eastern goldfinch
• State flower: Common violet
• State dinosaur: Hadrosaurus