If you think of New Jersey as highways and crowded beaches, prepare to be astonished. Tucked away in the heart of the state ...

Long before John McPhee’s “The Pine Barrens” was published, New Jersey’s vast, dreamlike swath of sand and scrubby pines was seen as a wasteland by the unfamiliar, a place full of pirate ...

Much of the 12,000 acres destroyed last year in New Jersey were in the territory of the Pine Barrens, including in Wharton State Forest, where campsites were evacuated last month during a blaze ...