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New Jersey Day Trips : A Guide to Outings In New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania & Delaware, 9th Edition

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As an occasional visitor to New Jersey, I was thrilled to find this book. It goes way beyond the AAA books and the Chamber of Commerce handouts, with honest and objective descriptions of just about everything that's worth seeing and experiencing. For anybody taking a week's vacation, this is the best [...]you could possibly spend.

If I lived in New Jersey, the book would become an even more essential resource. It would be consulted every time our family sat down together to plan an outing.

When I moved to NJ I joined a newcomers' club and offered to help run a Daytrips group. This book(including its various future editions)was our constant companion and ever ready reference. It also worked for the many house guests that suddenly appeared now that we lived near NYC. We had a great time visiting many of the sites Barbara had previewed for us...and her observations were right on. Note: She does advise that you check dates and time as these change.

When I moved to GA I brought it with me and I often lend it to friends and friends of friends planning to visit NYC or "The Garden State". They are always delighted and wonder why we don't have such a resource for GA.

The 9th edition (which is being shown on the screen right now as of November 17), is still the best guidebook to NJ around. Published in 2000, it is more up-to-date than many others, and still shows plenty of personal opinions as well as the basic facts. Available mostly thru "used-like new" option on Amazon because the publisher is out of stock of new copies, but has plenty of books that were a tiny-bit bent when shipped in cartons or shipped back from stores that went out of business.

I recently visited a friend/colleague in New Brunswick and we took some excursions to whatever the "nuclear waste" state was supposed to offer. Actually, they had grass and trees and gorgeous parks that we visited over a long weekend. This book was in the front seat and I learned as much about this wonderful part of America from reading along the way as actually seeing it!

Now in a revised, expanded, and updated ninth edition, Barbara Hudgins' New Jersey Day Trips continues to be the premier travel guide for New Jersey residents and visitors seeking recreational outings in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Here presented in a portable paperback is a wealth of highly recommended, useful, "reader friendly" information on museums, zoos, amusement parks, ski areas, gardens, historic sites, colonial villages, beaches, flea markets, historic sites, great mansions, quaint towns, and more.

The write-ups cover such a wide spectrum and the observations are right on the money that I think this is still the best guidebook on the Garden State. and those over-the border places like the Crayola Factory and Sesame Place in Pennsylvania were great when my nieces visited. Includes cruises like The Spirit of New Jersey and outlets like Westbury Commons and Flemington.I always keep a copy in the car.

This book is fantastic. I recently began working for a company in New Jersey, and decided to discover more about the Garden State. This is definitely the best guide book of its kind. Far superior to the others I purchased!
Buy it today. You'll love it.