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Northeast: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania

To the west of the Pinelands, toward the borders with Delaware and Pennsylvania, New Jersey’s coastal plain includes highly productive farm- land. Agriculture also flourishes in the northern part of the coastal plain. North of the coastal plain lies a geo- graphical region called the Piedmont . It’s about 20 miles (32 km) wide and contains New Jersey’s largest cities. Overall, the Piedmont slopes gradually toward the southeast, but it has some

mary attraction of the resort commu- nities that line New Jersey’s coast. These communities are popular vaca- tion destinations. Inland, the southern part of the coastal plain is dominated by the Pinelands, also known as the Pine Barrens. Mixed pine and oak forests cover much of the land, which is cut through by numerous creeks and small rivers. The region is sparsely populat- ed. Its soil is too sandy for farming.

View of the Delaware Water Gap from Mount Tammany, on the New Jersey side of the river. The Delaware River forms much of the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania.