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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Example Sentences

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

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

The next fire, for example, might be somewhere in Appalachia, or downwind of the Pine Barrens or in a beach town in New Jersey, or in Wisconsin or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2023

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

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022

This region is generally called the Pine Barrens.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles