Travel Information for New Jersey Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a New Jersey attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a New Jersey state park, this is where you will find it.
While NEW JERSEY is best known for its beaches and boardwalks, visitors can discover enjoyable journeys off the beaten path in the Garden State from authentic historical reenactments at Revolutionary War sites across the state to Thomas Edison’s home and laboratories or an eclectic sculpture garden in the middle of an industrial park; The Coastal Heritage Trail highlights the treasured ecology and heritage of the Jersey Shore and there are hundreds of Cycling & Hiking Trails. Great shopping beckons you from every region in the state, from luxury malls and boutiques to outlet shopping and flea markets, and there are great golf courses.
The ATLANTIC CITY region has 12 casino resorts, more than seven miles of beaches, and a 4.5-mile-long Boardwalk with hotels, casinos, shops and amusements; other attractions include Tuckerton Seaport, an authentic working seaport village with 16 re-created historical structures, Noyes Museum of Art, restored Historic Absecon Lighthouse, and the new Ocean Life Center at Gardner's Basin with hands-on learning adventures within its eight aquarium tanks; Steel Pier has rides, entertainment, games, and food court, and Storybook Land and Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum are also family attractions.
At BASKING RIDGE the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge has more than eight miles of trails, wildlife, and birdwatching.
With 2,200 colonial, federal, and Victorian buildings, BRIDGTON in the enclave known as Cumberland County has New Jersey's largest historic district; towns and cities in Cumberland County are filled with historic structures and sites, among them Commercial, Greenwich, Millville, Stow Creek, Upper Deerfield and Vineland.
There are dozens of historic sites located within the 1677 colonial city of BURLINGTON.
Among the attractions in CAMDEN are the New Jersey State Aquarium, the Sony Blockbuster Entertainment Center, the Camden Children's Garden, the Camden Waterfront and the Walt Whitman Cultural Center.
The nation's oldest seashore resort, CAPE MAY, has gas-lit streets, quaint bed & breakfasts, art galleries, and over 600 restored Victorian structures; visitors can stroll through a rural community of the 19th-century, Historic Cold Spring Village.
The Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum in EDISON is located on the exact spot where Thomas Edison had his laboratory.
FAR HILLS is home to the US Golf Association Museum and Library.
FLEMINGTON has the largest miniature railway in the world, Northlandz.
The GATEWAY region is known as the "Gateway to Freedom", home to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Liberty State Park; attractions include the Central Railroad Terminal Building where more than 12-million immigrants entered the nation between 1892 and 1954, and the Immigrant Museum at Ellis Island.
The 1700s MILLVILLE is home to the Millville Army Air Museum, and to Wheaton Village which houses the Museum of American Glass. Two attractions in NEWARK are the New Jersey Historical Society exhibitions and library, and the Newark Museum (Dreyfuss Planetarium).
OCEAN CITY says it invented "family fun": among many attractions is Ocean City Boardwalk and Gillian’s Island with its two parks, family rides and water slides.
At OGDENSBURG visitors can tour the underground fluorescent caverns at Sterling Hill Mining Museum.
PRINCETON is home to Princeton University and Princeton Battlefield State Park.
Popular attractions in SALEM include the historic districts and the Salem County Historical Society Museum and Library with several 18th century buildings. The beaches and boardwalks of the Shore Region's Monmouth and Ocean Counties offer many vacation opportunities including Fantasy Island Amusement Park, lighthouse attractions at the Navesink Light Station at Twin Lights Historic Site, and Sandy Hook, the oldest Light tower (1764) in the U.S.; other attractions include Island Beach State Park, The Medusa at the Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild Safari, and the picturesque and historic towns of Red Bank and Tuckerton Seaport.
Return to the 1700s in historic SMITHVILLE near Atlantic City. The 18th-century Village of Waterloo, STANHOPE, demonstrates what life was like hundreds of years ago.
Attractions in TRENTON, the state capital, include the New Jersey State House, and the Old Barracks Museum to view life as it was over 200 years ago.
At TITUSVILLE Washington Crossing State Park marks the Delaware River site where, in a blinding snowstorm on the night of Dec. 25, 1776, General George Washington crossed the river with 2,400 colonial troops and captured 1,000 Hessian mercenaries.
The island resort WILDWOOD has a fun attraction in Moreys Pier and some interesting museums such as the Doo Wop Preservation League Museum, and the George Boyer Historical Museum.
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