Tourism-Arts-Recreation

Tourism
People come from around the world to enjoy Hunterdon’s natural beauty and historical heritage. Tourism is a vibrant industry for the county, which offers a bounty of attractions and experiences.

Visitors delight in the county’s museums, colonial and Victorian homes, its taverns and restaurants, its bread-and-breakfast inns and hotels. Shopping opportunities attract tourists to outlet centers like Flemington’s Liberty Village to the charming main street communities along the Delaware and the South Branch of the Raritan, with antique shops, boutiques and specialty stores offering a wealth of collectibles, crafts, furniture and other unique creations.

The Arts, Culture and Entertainment
Music is everywhere. You can find performances by symphony orchestras, chamber groups and live music in many styles - contemporary, jazz, bluegrass, folk, country. Theatregoers enjoy community theater presentations, area high school productions, and the world’s leading performers in comedy, music, dance and drama often appear at Raritan Valley Community College’s beautiful theater. Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, a professional dinner theater, draws crowds from New Jersey and beyond. An annual reenactment of the Lindbergh trial draws audiences to a replay of the 'Trial of the Century,' originally held in Flemington in 1935.

Recreation
Every pleasant weekend seems to bring hundreds of bicyclists to Hunterdon’s rural roads, trout and bass fishermen to our streams and reservoirs, canoeists, tubers and rafters to the river towns along the Delaware and Raritan Rivers, and, of course, golfers to one of the county’s golf courses, including the new links-style course in High Bridge. Horse shows and polo matches, baseball games, picnicking, swimming, even scuba-diving in the depths of Round Valley reservoir. (It’s pretty cold down there, so bring your wetsuit even in the summer.)

From Cushetunk Mountain Nature Preserve to the Musconetcong River Reservation, from the Wescott Nature Preserve to the Hunterdon County Arboretum, from the Beaver Brook Golf Course to the Sourland Nature Preserve, Hunterdon has cliffs, rivers, streams, forests, fields, and marshes for all kinds of recreational enjoyment. Bald eagles are regularly spotted, along with dozens of exotic species of hawks and other raptors. The Hunterdon County Park system contains more than 4,700 acres in 18 areas, and sponsors dozens of nature walks, canoe trips and educational programs.