New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation, with 8.9 million residents living in the fourth-smallest state in the U.S. From the Skylands, to the Palisades, to the farms and cranberry bogs, and down the Jersey Shore to Cape May, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of New Jersey and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.
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A falcon named Blackberry lands on a post in Ocean City, New Jersey, on August 20, 2019. Blackberry was at work, part of a program to drive aggressive seagulls away from the beach and boardwalk. #
A view of the Delaware Water Gap from Mount Tammany in Knowlton Township, New Jersey #
Alexander Hall, home to the Richardson Auditorium, on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. The hall was originally completed in 1894. #
A red fox kit sits outside its den in Monmouth County, New Jersey. #
Well over 1,000 spectators watched more than 575 brave participants as they ran into the Atlantic Ocean during First Day at the Beach on January 1, 2019, in Ocean City, New Jersey. #
The Statue of Liberty is seen from a street in Jersey City on April 28, 2020. While Liberty Island, which the statue stands on, belongs to New York, the waters around it belong to New Jersey. #
Snow is illuminated by a streetlight in Hoboken, New Jersey, on January 21, 2014. #
Ice jams the Delaware River as the New Jersey Capitol building is pictured in the background in Trenton, on January 9, 2014. #
A vulture flies above fall foliage in the Palisades in Alpine, New Jersey, on November 1, 2018. #
A group of workers harvests cranberries in a commercial bog in rural New Jersey. #
An aerial view of houses in Elizabeth, New Jersey #
A view of El Toro, a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey #
Juan Jose Pajon (top), a tourist from Medellín, Colombia, rides on the shoulders of Sebastian Cardona, of Carlstadt, New Jersey, during a trip to the State Fair Meadowlands carnival, on June 21, 2019, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. #
A young opossum hangs from a branch in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. #
The Navesink Twin Lights, former lighthouses that are now a museum, stand in Highlands, in Monmouth County, above Sandy Hook Bay. #
One of two machine shops where Thomas Edison and his staff worked on new ideas and products at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, photographed on August 25, 2017 #
The NYK Line Blue Jay container ship sits in port at the GCT Bayonne terminal, on January 6, 2019, as seen from Bayonne, New Jersey. #
People participate in a Revolutionary War encampment and reenactment at Jockey Hollow, part of Morristown National Historical Park, in Morristown on April 7, 2019. #
Drivers compete in the Nationwide Demolition Derby at the New Jersey State Fair Sussex County Farm and Horse Show in Augusta, New Jersey, on August 4, 2013. #
The Great Falls of the Passaic River, photographed on July 8, 2020, in the city of Paterson, in Passaic County #
Brianna Strada, 9, shows her pig Sunny at the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show in Augusta, New Jersey, on August 5, 2018. #
The sun partially hides behind clouds as people ride gondolas on the Sky Ride at the State Fair Meadowlands carnival, on July 5, 2018, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. #
A family poses for a photo before entering a corn maze on an autumn day at Snyder's Farm in Somerset, New Jersey, on October 5, 2019. #
An aerial view of the city of Newark #
A beachside Christmas tree is lit on December 24, 2015, in Lavallette, New Jersey. #
A resident shovels snow away from the entrance to his home in Union City, New Jersey, after a huge winter storm on January 24, 2016. #
A view of some of Atlantic City's casinos and hotels, seen on August 22, 2016 #
The Cape May Lighthouse, at the tip of New Jersey's Cape May #
People walk through the Empty Sky 9/11 memorial at sunset in Liberty State Park in Jersey City on January 1, 2017. #
Hoboken Terminal, a passenger station in Hoboken that connects thousands of rail, ferry, and bus passengers daily #
The Wick House, part of the Morristown National Historical Park, photographed on a sunny autumn day #
A panoramic view from high above the autumn treetops at Eagle Rock Park in West Orange, New Jersey, with the skyline of New York City in the background #
Victorian homes stand on the Jersey Shore in Cape May, photographed on August 10, 2017. #
Crowds of sunbathers seek relief from a week-long heat wave on July 7, 2012, at the beach in Avon, New Jersey. #
An aerial view of a junction on the New Jersey Turnpike in Kearny, near Newark #
High Point Monument stands on High Point in the Kittatinny Mountains in New Jersey. High Point peak has the highest elevation in New Jersey, standing 1,803 feet high. The monument was built in 1930 to honor war veterans. #
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