NEW JERSEY GETAWAYS -- amNY.com

A weekend in Hunterdon County

You could do a lot worse than spend a weekend in New Jersye's Hunterdon County. This is the absolute antithesis of the notion that New Jersey is nothing but interstates and industry.

June 29, 2007

Cape May is the other Jersey shore: Instead of '50s motels, there are Victorian inns; upscale restaurants take the place of hot dog stands. And forget about kitschy souvenirs: the town is chockablock with antiques stores.

October 16, 2006

A weekend in Princeton

College towns offer all the comforts of home: good museums, music, and theater, not to mention trendy shops and galleries, restaurants and bars. Princeton, within easy driving time, has all of the above, which makes it a fine place to spend a winter weekend.

A weekend in Wildwood

Wildwood, on the New Jersey shore, seems less a part of the anxious 2000s than a throwback to the 1950s, complete with happy families, hot dog stands, and beach bars, not to mention plenty of chances to take home, say, a pink plush elephant bigger than your sofa.

A weekend in Hunterdon County

Hunterdon County is about as far as you can get from the image of New Jersey as one long turnpike. With its bucolic atmosphere and small towns, this is the state as countryside.

A weekend in Atlantic City

Shore thing The Quarter brings Atlantic City closer to the Las Vegas Strip

December 3, 2007

A holiday with the Victorians

Come December, the Painted Ladies of Cape May dress up in their Christmas finery: Greens deck every inch of overstuffed parlors; Christmas trees and holly boughs and mistletoe, all find their places. Outdoors, delicate fairy lights trace every gingerbread swirl and curlicue, outlining towers and turrets and complicated rooflines. If summer is the season of sun and sand here, December is the season of wassail and good cheer.

September 25, 2006

A weekend at Duke Farms

With more than 2,700 acres of woods, lakes and fields, Duke Farms, in Hillsborough, N.J., at 80 Route 206 South, is an island of peace, fauna and flora in the most congested state in the nation. James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925), the North Carolina-born tobacco and hydropower baron began in 1893 to purchase area farms and wound up with what is still today the largest private landholding in New Jersey. A self-taught arborist, botanist and hydrologist, Duke sited more than two million trees and other plants on the property and also built nine lakes and 10 waterfalls.