Living in The Skylands

The Skylands -- named for New Jersey's own official Skylands tourism region, used here in its broader, historical five-county footprint (Morris, Somerset, Hunterdon, Sussex, and Warren) -- is this state's most rural and historically dense northwestern region. Morristown genuinely earned its nickname as 'the military capital of the American Revolution': George Washington's Continental Army wintered here in 1776-77 and again during the brutal 1779-80 Jockey Hollow encampment, preserved today at Morristown National Historical Park, the first national historical park in the country. Madison carries a real, documented history as 'The Rose City,' a commercial rose-growing industry that shipped up to 50,000 cut roses a day into New York by the 1880s. Flemington's Hunterdon County Courthouse hosted the internationally publicized 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial. Lambertville, Frenchtown, and Stockton offer a genuine antiques-and-arts river-town lifestyle along the Delaware, while Vernon, in the far north, anchors the region's outdoor-recreation economy around Mountain Creek Resort -- genuinely the New York metro's closest ski resort.

Explore The Skylands in depth

• Cost of Living & Housing in The Skylands
• Best Places to Live in The Skylands
• Moving to The Skylands
• Climate & Lifestyle in The Skylands

Places we've researched in The Skylands

• Morristown -- Morris County
• Chester -- Morris County (spanning Chester Borough and the surrounding Chester Township -- see this file's header for the disclosed two-municipality structure)
• Madison -- Morris County
• Somerville -- Somerset County (the county seat)
• Vernon -- Sussex County
• Flemington -- Hunterdon County (the county seat, since 1785)
• Lambertville -- Hunterdon County
• Frenchtown -- Hunterdon County
• Stockton -- Hunterdon County