This month, we’re saving a little gratitude for the place we call home. South Jersey gives us plenty to be thankful for – and we’re happy to pass around a few extra helpings.

Coming home from a trip and realizing how much we like it here

Having a sleepover aboard the Battleship New Jersey

Trying out glass blowing at Wheaton Arts

Countless numbers of picturesque hikes for any time of the year

Lots of living history 

Batsto Village

Enough small town charm to last year-round

The spooky lore of the Jersey Devil 

Fresh produce for days

The farm stand you pull over for every single time

Paddling through the Pine Barrens with nowhere to hurry

Happy hour is just a quick walk or drive away

You can skate where the Flyers do (they practice in Voorhees)

Suffragette Alica Paul was born here

Taylor Swift’s favorite Jersey beach is in South Jersey (Stone Harbor)

Bringing home salt water taffy – and calling it a souvenir

Taking a train ride through Historic Smithville

It’s easy – and fun – to celebrate small business Saturday every weekend

Sipping our way through the Garden State Wine trail

Jersey tomatoes that ruin all other tomatoes for you

You can visit real cranberry bogs

Searching for ghosts at White Hill Mansion

We are Philly sports fans (aka the best fans)

The Camden Waterfront

Lots of cozy coffee shops

We have a rodeo. An actual rodeo (Thanks, Cowtown.)

November trips to a South Jersey apple orchard

Watching the stars and exploring the universe at Edelman Planetarium

Free art programs at Atlantic City’s Noyes Arts Garage

There’s a palace in the Pinelands made of “trash” that was started during The Depression

Sitting in real vintage WWII planes at the Millville Army Air Field Museum

Boardwalk pizza counts as a food group

You can see capybara – for free! – at the Cape May County Park & Zoo

Climbing the hundreds of steps of South Jersey’s three lighthouses

Digging up real fossils at Edelman Fossil Park

Watching for whales and dolphins on the Atlantic Ocean near Cape May

The Jersey Shore. That’s the whole reason

Going “down the Shore” needs no further explanation

Wildwood’s free beaches

America’s oldest beach resort town (Cape May)