New Jersey, "The Garden State", is the fourth smallest state in the United States. In spite of its small size, and the fact that it is the most densely populated state, more than half of New Jersey is wooded. In addition, it is famous for its shoreline.
There are ten National Park Services properties that are in or partly in New Jersey including the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve.
You can also visit Thomas Edison’s home in West Orange, NJ. Here you will be able to see Edison’s home and laboratory, and take a step back in time, when machines were run by belts and pulleys and music was played on phonographs. Where to the uninformed passerby, the buildings betray little evidence of the industries they once started. See where America’s best-known inventor began to change the world with his numerous inventions.
To visit Independence National Historical Park is like taking a step back in American history and since many of El Monte RV’s customers enjoy history, they spend many hours at this very historic park in Philadelphia. Some notable sites to visit here include the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Declaration House, Independence Living History Center, Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, the Liberty Bell Center and the Merchants’ Exchange Building.
Also, if you decide to continue the drive south the Baltimore, be sure to visit Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key actually wrote the poem that became The Star-Spangled Banner, while watching the rocket’s red glare and the bombs (literally) bursting in air on September 14, 1814, during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.