Destinations
Events
- Weekend Journey through the Past
- Somerset County's autumn showcase of historical sites.
- Warren County Farmers Fair
- The history of the Warren County Farmers' Fair is a checkered one. The event that we know today -- an agriculturally based, family oriented exposition -- was a long time in coming. It almost didn't make it.
- Sussex County Birding and Nature Festival
- For a birder, New Jersey is the place to be on June 5 and 6, 2010. The annual Sussex County Birding and Nature Festival is an event you don't want to miss!
- Summer fairs in New Jersey
- In spite of all the turbulence in our lives, or perhaps because of it, traditional fairs and festivals remain especially popular. In these cases, it is fortunate that the more things change, the more things stay the same.
- New Jersey State Fair
- A real country fair, the home pride of generations worked closely with the land is everywhere to be seen: in the good food, good works, and good times that are the true bounty and community of the rural, agricultural heritage of Sussex County.
- Kutztown Folk Festival
- Nothing tops the good old-fashion summer fun at the 61st Kutztown Folk Festival in Kutztown, PA. This family-oriented festival offers over 200 demonstrating craftsmen, 2000 beautiful hand-made quilts, folklife demonstrations, six stages of entertainment, lots of children's activities, and the best Pennsylvania Dutch food anywhere. Affordable family fun at the Kutztown Folk Festival, July 3-11, 2010!.
- 4-H Fairs
- Today's clubs reflect modern trends and interests, but still emphasize the personal growth of each member
Family Attractions
- Working Theaters
- Production companies and presentation houses require different, but equally challenging skills, to survive. Getting people off the couch and away from their flat screens is no easy task. Here is how local professional theaters manage to satisfy a widely diverse audience, sometimes with as much drama off as on the stage.
- Wild West City
- The good, the bad and the enduring
- USGA Golf Museum
- Rolled up in the Far Hills countryside, the USGA Museum is home to the world's premier collection of golf artifacts and memorabilia
- U. S. Equestrian Team Headquarters
- Proud to call New Jersey its home, the USET is the non-profit organization which represents the United States in international equestrian sports.
- Tomahawk Lake
- Tomahawk Lake is a treasure for the families that come here.
- Summer fairs in New Jersey
- In spite of all the turbulence in our lives, or perhaps because of it, traditional fairs and festivals remain especially popular. In these cases, it is fortunate that the more things change, the more things stay the same.
- Sterling Hill Mining Museum
- Gem lovers, adventurers, history buffs take note! A labyrinth of marbleized tunnels gilded by a multi-color glow of fluorescent minerals below the earth awaits at Sterling Hill Mining Museum.
- Space Farms
- Today, people still enjoy doing basically the same thing as they did 80 years ago... visit the animal collection and maybe have some candy and a soda.
- Skylands Park
- The Sussex Skyhawks, members of the CanAm league of independent professional baseball, play home games at the stadium.
- Skylands Botanical Gardens
- Confusing (or better, enhancing) the boundaries of where the Skylands can be found, the New Jersey State Botanical Garden at Skylands is certainly quarters for some of the best of what Northwestern New Jersey represents.
- Rockport Pheasant Farm
- The New Jersey Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife completed acquisition of the 492 acre property in 1925, two years after the first release of Rockport pheasants.
- Pine Creek Miniature Golf
- One of the largest and most beautiful miniature golf facilities in America, two 18-hole courses roll over acres of natural countryside in a country club setting.
- Northlandz
- "Our problem is telling the world what the heck we got here", says Bruce Williams, creator of Flemington's newest attraction. It is indeed difficult to describe the jaw-dropping feeling you get when you take this effortless trip into the realm of unfettered imagination along the mile-long one way labyrinth that is Northlandz.
- Mountain Creek Waterpark
- When they stop making snow at Mountain Creek, there is still a blizzard of events to satisfy both the families and adventurers at the Vernon facility in the summer.
- Liberty Village Premium Outlets
- In 1981, Liberty Village became the country's very first outlet village, where many designers and manufacturers opened their first outlet stores. Sixty outlet stores are now situated in a colonial-styled village where the brands are anything but old-fashioned.
- Land of Make Believe
- Since 1954, the Land of Make Believe has given families a place where the kids and parents can have fun together.
- Lakota Wolf Preserve
- At the Lakota Wolf Preserve, you can see wolves here in the East in a natural surrounding for the first time in over a century.
- Franklin Mineral Museum
- Is it the bronze statue of the miner on the front lawn greeting the visitor or perhaps the full-size replica mine inside the building? Or could it be the lure of dinosaur footprints from New Jersey, the world's largest polished slabs of petrified wood, scorpions, dinosaur dung, and over 3000 specimens of local minerals that brings nearly 20,000 school-age children to the Franklin Mineral Museum each school year.
- Ellis Observatory
- Sir Isaac Newton's spirit lives on at Sterling Hill. The men talk casually about hooking up a recently donated low-light camera and monitor. Attached to the telescope, the camera will send images to monitors in the observatory and the gift shop building. Guests can view and hear activities in the observatory.
- Duke Farms
- Green Think at Duke Farms.
- Black River and Western Railroad
- Getting lost in the beautiful Hunterdon County countryside, as it stretches out from either side of the right of way of the Black River & Western Railroad is easy. All you have to do is look out the window of the railcar...
Historical Attractions & Museums
- Ralston Cider Mill
- Of all the cider mills in New Jersey, Nesbitt's is the only survivor. For seventy years the stone building sat on some of the most valuable real estate in the world, somehow avoiding adaptive reuse or the bulldozer. This fall, you will be able to experience a rare instance of a remarkable technology, so vital to the heritage of our state. For the first time, Nesbitt's Mill will open its doors for public visitation and demonstration.
- Museums and Historical Societies
- White Township, Holcombe-Jimison, Ledgewood, Califon, Wantage, Stillwater, Space Farms, Hackettstown, Hope, Lake Hopatcong, Lebanon
- Museums and Historical Societies
- Montague, Sussex County Historical Society, Phillipsburg Historical Society, Pike County Historical Society
- Museum Early Trades and Crafts
- A newly restored building provides a beautiful setting for new exhibits and interactive programs; a family oriented space where children and adults learn about the tools and trades of the past.
- Morristown National Historical Park
- To understand why it's a great story, walk to the top of the hill in Jockey Hollow that held 200 soldier huts for the Pennsylvania Brigade in early 1790. Walk up one day in January and imagine staying there until it gets warm enough sometime in April to take off your down jacket.
- Millbrook Village
- Millbrook Village, part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, is a re-created community of the 1800s where aspects of pioneer life are exhibited and occasionally demonstrated by skilled and dedicated docents throughout the village
- Marshall House
- Lambertville and the gold rush.
- Macculloch Hall
- Macculloch Hall Historical Museum truly shines among New Jersey's historic house museums. Built from 1810 to 1819, this Federal style mansion of more than twenty rooms was home to George Macculloch and five generations of his descendants. Macculloch is best remembered as the Father of the Morris Ca
- Long Pond Iron Works
- Take a ride to Long Pond Ironworks State Park in West Milford and park at the visitors center. Walk past the old stone-rubble houses sitting like giant sculptures on the lawn, amble down into the woods and look for the dirt crossroads surrounded by trees and the ruins of a town. The area now called Hewitt was once the Long Pond Ironworks.
- Lenne Lenape Indian Village
- The easiest path to an appreciation of the Lenape is across the bridge to the Indian Village at Waterloo. Developed in1988 by archaeologist John Kraft, the recreated village has introduced the Lenape way to hundreds of thousands of visitors.
- Jim and Mary Lee Canal Museum
- Thousands of people over the years have visited the home in Warren County where Jim and Mary Lee raised their five children, but Jim Lee, Jr. figures his fifth grade class took the first tour his dad ever gave, back in 1953.
- Craftsman Farms
- At the turn of the last century a uniquely American tradition of home design and furnishing appeared: clean in line, solid in construction, choice in materials, and given to the aesthetic of a life lived in harmony with nature.The living room at Craftsman Farms nears full restoration to its original appearance. Many of the historic furnishings have been restored to their original locations during the Stickley era.
- Clinton and the Red Mill
- Perhaps no symbol of western New Jersey is better known than the landmark Red Mill at Clinton. Located just below the confluence of Spruce Run and the South Branch of the Raritan, on the west end of Main Street, the mill and its surroundings have played host to a succession of industries and activities spawned by the region's remarkably rich agricultur
Farm Visits
- Well-Sweep Herb Farm
- Touring Well-Sweep Herb Farm in Port Murray is an exciting learning experience; part herbal lesson, part horticulture history flashback, part taste test.
- Pumpkin Picking
- Fall field trips
- Lusscroft Farm
- As historic sites go, Lusscroft Farm is one of a kind. Located in the northwest corner of Sussex County, these 578 acres have a rich and diverse past.
- Green Valley Farms
- A full plate at this family-run farm.
- Fosterfield Farms
- To enter Fosterfields, a working farm since 1760 and New Jersey's first living, historical farm, is to magically step back into the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Buck Garden
- Leonard J. Buck Garden in Far Hills is a garden of splendor and inspiration-- a landscape of art, sprung from a love of the beauty of plants and a reverence for nature.
- Bobolink Dairy and Bakeyeard
- Artisanal bread, solar-powered cheeses and pasture-raised beef.
- Apple Picking
- A walk among ageless trees laden with the mythical fruit is a trip through a special kind of garden.