Like Southwestern Connecticut, northeastern New Jersey is a de-pendency of the Greater New York area, but much of the rest of the state offers some fine vacation possibilities. The great seashore resorts of Atlantic City and Asbury Park are nationally famous, of course, but some of the lesser-known parts of the state are also of interest to the pleasure traveler. The comparatively unknown northern corner, for instance, has some handsome mountain scenery within twenty or thirty miles of New York's Catskill Mountains, and it slopes down to the scenic valley of the Delaware River, which it shares with Pennsylvania, on the opposite bank, and culminates in the section called the Delaware Water Gap.
Atlantic City is New Jersey's outstanding resort, and one of the most famous in the nation. More than 16,000,000 visitors come here every year. Atlantic City is usually associated with sun, sand, sea, conventions in the world's largest meeting hall, rolling chairs on the five-mile-long boardwalk, and the famed amusement piers jutting out to sea; but more than a half-million people go to Atlantic City to fish—at least they go fishing while they're there. The city's outstanding annual event is the Miss America Pageant, held the week immediately following Labor Day—which, incidentally, is just about the same time the regular summer business drops off.
Asbury Park is New Jersey's other leading seaside resort and the birthplace of salt-water taffy. Activities center on the mile-long boardwalk, bathing pavilions and salt-water swimming pools.
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