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Elk Township is a township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,424, [8] an increase of 208 (+4.9%) from the 2010 census count of 4,216, [16] [17] which in turn reflected an increase of 702 (+20.0%) from the 3,514 counted in the 2000 census.
Belleplain State Forest is a 21,320-acre (86.3 km 2) New Jersey State Forest in northern Cape May County and eastern Cumberland County. It has many young pine, oak and Atlantic white cedar trees, having better soil than the northern Pine Barrens. It was established in 1928 and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up camps in 1933, and ...
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
Bass River State Forest is a 23,563 acres (95.36 km 2) state park in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The park, named for the Bass River which crosses through it, shelters a portion of the environmentally sensitive Pine Barrens but also provides a variety of recreational resources to visitors.
There are 25 miles (40 km) of hiking trails and a camping area. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Originally named for the Lebanon Glassworks, which operated in the 1850s and 1860s, it was renamed for Brendan Byrne in 2004. Byrne served as governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982.
Parvin State Park is in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey, [1] 5 miles west of Vineland, in an agricultural area. [2] The largest lake in the park is Parvin Lake, which occupies much of the eastern corner of the park and into which flows a stream, the Muddy Run ; there is a smaller lake, Thundergust Lake, to the south of Parvin Lake.
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The core of the park was purchased in 1963. Additional land was purchased in the 1970s. [5] In May 1993, the Park System acquired 303-acre (123 ha) Camp Nomoco including a 56-acre (23 ha) campground from the Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts to add it to Turkey Swamp Park.