Pine Barrens

American  

noun

1. the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2,000 sq. mi. (5,180 sq. km).

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This instability created lawless zones such as the “neutral ground” of Bergen County in northeast New Jersey and the Pine Barrens in the south, where hardened “banditti” flourished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

It’s like if Beckett had written the Pine Barrens episode of “The Sopranos.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

In New Jersey the state Forest Fire Service has mounted a Firewise USA campaign throughout the Pine Barrens and installed fire towers, which are staffed whenever the forest is dry enough to burn.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2023

His face glows for much of the episode "The Pine Barrens," cast down into a screen.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

I heard the notes of the Mocking-Bird the first time in his native wilds, during a railroad journey by night, through the Pine Barrens of North Carolina, in the month of June.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various