A retired zinc mine in Ogdensburg where the guide kills the lights and the rock walls erupt in glowing fluorescent reds and greens — you walk 1,300 feet into the real tunnels.
Road trips · New Jersey
New Jersey road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in New Jersey — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in New Jersey
World Cup 2026
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and New Jersey has one this June. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A six-story elephant-shaped building from 1881 standing right on the beach in Margate, just below Atlantic City — climb the spiral stairs inside her leg to a howdah view of the shore.
A 42-acre sculpture park and arboretum in Hamilton where more than 300 artworks hide among exotic trees and ponds — wander far enough and you stumble into life-size Impressionist paintings in 3D.
The world's largest model railroad, tucked off Route 202 in Flemington — eight miles of track winding past 400 hand-built bridges and miniature canyons, all the decades-long work of one man.
A homespun 350-seat hall deep in the Pine Barrens at Waretown where, every Saturday night since 1974, locals gather for bluegrass and old-timey "Pinelands music."
This Atlantic Highlands bluff is the highest natural point on the Eastern Seaboard's coast, with a wide view across Sandy Hook to the Manhattan skyline and a quiet 9/11 memorial.
Worth traveling for
Events that put New Jersey on the calendar.
Plan the New Jersey trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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