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Belleplain State Forest is a
New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
State Forest A state forest or national forest is a forest that is administered or protected by some agency of a sovereign or federated state, or territory. Background The precise application of the terms vary by jurisdiction. For example: * In Australia, a ...
in northern Cape May County and eastern Cumberland County. It has many young pine, oak and Atlantic white cedar trees, having better soil than the northern
Pine Barrens Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barre ...
. It was established in 1928 and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) set up camps in 1933, and converted Meisle Cranberry Bog into Lake Nummy, and constructed the original forest headquarters, maintenance building, a road system, bridges, and dams. The forest includes recreational facilities for picnicking, boating, camping, hunting and fishing, swimming, and over of walking trails. A fee is charged for camping and picnicking. On June 7, 2002, the Green Acres Program added of privately owned land to Belleplain. Donated by the Brewer family, the property comprises approximately of woodlands - including Atlantic white cedar trees - surrounding Cedar Lake (also known as Hands Mill Pond) on West Creek in
Maurice River Township Maurice River Township () is the easternmost township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Vineland- Millville- Bridgeton Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area for statistical purposes. As of the 2010 United Stat ...
, Cumberland County. Former Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Ed King resided on a Property within the Forest.


See also

* List of New Jersey state parks


References


External links


Green Acres Program

NY-NJTC: Belleplain State Forest Trail Details and Info
New Jersey state forests Protected areas of Cape May County, New Jersey Protected areas of Cumberland County, New Jersey Civilian Conservation Corps in New Jersey Civilian Conservation Corps camps {{CumberlandCountyNJ-geo-stub