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The New Jersey Haunted Trail

New Jersey packs its hauntings into a small state with old bones. Colonial taverns still pour drinks two centuries later, a psychiatric hospital sits under a county park now, and Pine Barrens back roads have carried strange stories since long before cars existed. North Jersey leans toward Revolutionary War history and abandoned institutions; the shore towns run more toward grand old hotels with a ghost attached to nearly every room. The featured loop keeps to the coast for a single long weekend, though the statewide list runs past a hundred and seventy stops for anyone willing to range inland.

The state of the state
171 Verified stops
10 Regions
73 Wheelchair accessible
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The curated weekend cut

HauntBound's editors picked 7 daytime stops and 5 overnight inns from the 171 places below and mapped them in driving order, with drive times, the full stories, and a printable field guide. Free by email.

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✦ The index 171 stops · 10 regions
Key MUS Museum / Historical SiteCEM Cemetery / Burial GroundTHT Theater / Performance VenueINN Haunted Hotel / InnBAR Haunted Dining / BarTUR Ghost Tour / Walking TourASY Asylum / HospitalPRS Prison / ReformatoryCRM True Crime SiteOUT Outdoor / Natural SiteHSE Haunted House / Historic HomeMIL Battlefield / Military SiteOTH Other Dark Tourism Site

Central

42 stops
MUS Ayers-Allen House Metuchen Fam MUS Clara Barton Schoolhouse Bordentown Fam MUS Covenhoven House Freehold Fam BAR Cranbury Inn Cranbury Fam OUT Devil's Tree Martinsville Fam MUS Drew University (Mead Hall) Madison Fam HSE Drumthwacket Princeton Fam MUS First Reformed Church of New Brunswick New Brunswick Fam HSE Henry Guest House New Brunswick Fam BAR Hotel Somerset (McCormick's Pub) Somerville CRM Hunterdon County Courthouse (Lindbergh Trial Site) Flemington Fam BAR Inn of the Hawke Lambertville Fam THT Little Theatre (Rutgers, Douglass campus) New Brunswick ASY Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital (Big Brook Park) Marlboro Fam THT McCarter Theatre Princeton Fam HSE Miller Hall (Rutgers University) New Brunswick MIL Monmouth Battlefield State Park Manalapan BAR Murphy's Crocodile Inn (now Riverside Inn) Neshanic Station Fam MUS Nassau Hall, Princeton University Princeton Fam INN Nassau Inn Princeton Fam ASY North Princeton Developmental Center (Skillman Village) Skillman Fam MUS Old Bernardsville Public Library (Vealtown Tavern) Bernardsville Fam MUS Old Dutch Parsonage Somerville Fam HSE Old Queens Bell Tower (Rutgers University) New Brunswick Fam CEM Old Tennent Church and Revolutionary Cemetery Manalapan Fam CEM Piscatawaytown Burial Ground (St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery) Edison OTH Point Breeze Estate (Joseph Bonaparte) Bordentown CEM Princeton Cemetery Princeton MUS Proprietary House Perth Amboy MUS Red Mill Museum Village Clinton CEM Riverview Cemetery Trenton HSE Rockefeller College Quad (Princeton University) Princeton Fam HSE Smithville Mansion Eastampton Fam THT Theatre Intime (Hamilton Murray Theater) Princeton Fam MIL Thomas Clarke House (Princeton Battlefield State Park) Princeton INN Union Hotel Flemington Fam TUR US Ghost Adventures Princeton Princeton Fam TUR US Ghost Adventures Red Bank Red Bank HSE Van Wickle House (The Meadows) Somerset Fam MUS Wallace House Somerville Fam INN Widow McCrea House Frenchtown CEM Willow Grove Cemetery New Brunswick

Southern

40 stops
MUS Absecon Lighthouse Atlantic City MUS Batsto Village Hammonton Fam OUT Blue Hole (Devil's Puddle) Winslow Township OUT Brooksbrae Brick Factory Ruins Pasadena PRS Burlington County Prison Mount Holly PRS Burlington County Prison Museum Mount Holly OUT Burnt Mill Road (Atco Ghost) Atco MUS Captain James Lawrence House Burlington Fam OUT Carranza Memorial Tabernacle Fam OTH Chicken Bone Beach (Missouri Avenue Beach) Atlantic City Fam HSE Collings-Knight House Collingswood Fam INN Dr. Jonathan Pitney House Absecon Fam MUS Emlen Physick Estate (Physick House Museum) Cape May Fam CEM Finn's Point National Cemetery Pennsville Fam MIL Fort Mott State Park Pennsville MUS Gabriel Davies Tavern Glendora Fam MUS Greenfield Hall (Historical Society of Haddonfield) Haddonfield Fam MIL Hancock House Hancock's Bridge TUR Haunted Haddonfield Walking Tour Haddonfield OUT Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area Cape May TUR Historic Woodbury Ghost Tour Woodbury INN Hotel Macomber Cape May INN Inn at 22 Jackson Cape May Fam BAR Lake House Restaurant (former Iona Lake Inn) Newfield Fam OUT Leeds Point (Jersey Devil Birthplace) Galloway Fam CEM Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Mays Landing Fam TUR Mount Holly Haunted History Walking Tour Mount Holly MUS Old Salem County Courthouse Salem Fam OUT Ong's Hat Ghost Town Pemberton Township MUS Potter's Tavern Bridgeton Fam MIL Red Bank Battlefield / Whitall House National Park Fam THT Ritz Theatre Haddon Township Fam TUR Salem County Ghost Tour Pennsville BAR The Olde Columbus Inne Columbus Fam TUR US Ghost Adventures Atlantic City Atlantic City MUS USS Battleship New Jersey Camden HSE White Hill Mansion Fieldsboro OTH Winterwood Gift & Christmas Shoppe (Hildreth House) Rio Grande Fam OTH Winterwood Gift Shop (Hildreth House) Rio Grande Fam BAR Ye Olde Centerton Inn Pittsgrove Fam

Northern

33 stops

Coastal

27 stops

Northwestern

13 stops

Jersey Shore

8 stops

Newark Metro

4 stops

Eastern

2 stops

Eastern Pennsylvania

1 stops

South Jersey Shore

1 stops

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