New Jersey Travel Guide - New Jersey 2025 Official Travel Guide
Let the Locals Lead
2024-12-05 08:32:43
Stroll, pedal or cruise on tours for differing interests and styles—all while gaining intriguing insights into NJ’s diverse cultural narrative.
TRAVEL FOR FOOD
Jersey City’s Beyond the Plate – Taste of Downtown Food Tour offers a mingling of cuisines and local spirits, artfully garnished with Jersey culture and history. Eat and drink like an Asbury Park native on a festive Taste of Asbury Food Tour highlighting local culture and lore. Experience statewide food scenes from Collingwood’s multicultural eateries to Atlantic City’s Ducktown classics with On the Town Food Tours. Seasoned with yesteryear charm, Cape May Food Tours serve culinary journeys dishing up global flavors and farm-to-table cuisine.
RIDE IN STYLE
Onboard the Spirit of New Jersey with City Cruises, enjoy a next-level lunch and dinner cruise with a chef-prepared buffet, live entertainment and swoon-worthy skyline views from open-air decks. The vintage vibe of a paddlewheel riverboat offers laid-back sightseeing aboard the River Lady in Toms River. There’s nothing dry about AC Tiki Boat Tours’ island-themed booze cruise—complete with leis, dancing, views of the Atlantic City skyline and a full-service bar. Be transported to serenely scenic destinations in the vintage cars of a steam locomotive train on Delaware River Railroad Excursions, or chug along on Black River & Western Railroad’s themed, seasonal excursions, including the North Pole Express and Hunterdon Wine Express.
EXPAND YOUR MIND
Walkabout the colorful gateway city known as America’s “Golden Door” on an outdoor gallery tour of 200 murals from local, national and international artists—thanks to the Jersey City Mural Arts Program and its interactive map to guide you. Coastal ghosts and a lantern-lit walk deliver a playfully haunting experience of local tales and the supernatural with Ghost Capers of Cape May. Stunning carved stone architecture distinguishes BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham, a Hindu house of worship set within a tranquil campus in Robbinsville. Three-dimensional art and nature meld into an immersive aesthetic experience at the mesmerizing Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton.
RETRACE HISTORY
Steeped in Revolutionary history, the Heritage Trail of Somerset County in Bridgewater offers themed bus and walking tours. The Princeton Five Star Shameless Name Dropping Tour takes you on the town of the historic university to visit the homes and hotspots of the most famous Princeton residents—from Albert Einstein to Brooke Shields. Period-garbed guides infuse colonial history with fascinating insights on a Burlington Historic District Walking Tour. Set your own pace on a self-guided audio Historic Heartline Walking Tour of Elizabeth, a city known for producing the first assembly line automobile in the state, the first ice cream soda and submarine.
CYCLE AROUND TOWN
Delve into central Jersey’s European vibe on travel-and-taste trips to farmland, vineyard or secluded beach destinations on NJ Bike Tours. Party on an open-air and energetic tavern-hopping PedalCycle powered by riders—with a battery backup if revelers run out of gas. A private, multi-day tour with Gotham Bicycle Tours leads small groups to oft-overlooked sights along the entire state, from a northern mountain-top to the ocean in Cape May. At mountain bike shop, Diamond Cycle, both high-speed cyclists and easy riders can rent wheels for self-guided tours through Montclair’s historic streets and off-road trails.
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