From the family-friendly beach towns on Long Beach Island to the historic Victorian homes in Cape May - plus a 65-foot tall elephant named Lucy in Margate - the state’s Atlantic coast line is a centerpiece of American beach-going. ![]() With 90 miles of white-sand beaches, the Jersey Shore has long lured visitors to its beachfront rentals, and even invented the entire genre of boardwalk culture when the first was built in Atlantic City in 1870. The park is also home to the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial, strategically placed to guide visitors to look at the skyline with the missing towers. The park is home to the Liberty Science Center, with the Western Hemisphere’s biggest planetarium, and the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, where immigrants boarded trains to their new lives after arriving at Ellis Island. ![]() The wide-open Hudson River views, from Midtown Manhattan to the Verrazano Bridge, are best seen along the two-mile waterfront promenade walk. ![]() The Statue of Liberty may call New York City home, but she stands much closer to Jersey at the 1,212-acre Liberty State Park.
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