New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve – New Jersey

NATIONAL RESERVE

New Jersey Pinelands

Southeastern New Jersey, NJ

This is truly a special place. It’s classified as a United States Biosphere Reserve and in 1978 was established by Congress as the country’s first National Reserve. It includes portions of seven southern New Jersey counties, and encompasses over one-million acres of farms, forests and wetlands. It contains 56 communities, from hamlets to suburbs, with over 700,000 permanent residents.