You don’t need a car to walk where George Washington walked. NJ Transit built you a map that shows you how to get there with mass transit.
It’s called Jersey Journeys: Every Stop Tells a Story – an interactive guide that maps 150+ historic sites across the state and tells you exactly which bus, train, or light rail line gets you there. Revolutionary War battlefields, colonial homes, cultural museums, monuments most of us drive past without noticing.
All of it, transit-accessible. And the timing of them releasing this is not an accident.
July 4, 2026 is the Semiquincentennial — 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. it is our birthday America, and NJ Transit wants you to celebrate it.
Remember, New Jersey isn’t a side character in the story, we’re the place where the Revolution actually got won. More battles were fought on this soil than in any other state. Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, Fort Lee – that’s the spine of the war, and most of it sits within a short transit ride of where you already live.
NJ Transit built Jersey Journeys to make sure that fact doesn’t get lost in the 250th hoopla. We don’t need a billion-dollar tall ship parade to remind people what happened here. We just need a bus schedule.
The campaign launched August 26, 2025, at Liberty Hall on Kean University’s campus — a fitting spot, since Liberty Hall itself is a 250-year-old colonial estate built by William Livingston, NJ’s first elected governor.
The launch crew:
- Kris Kolluri — NJ Transit CEO, currently running the largest statewide transit agency in the country
- Senator Joseph P. Cryan and Senator Patrick Diegnan, Jr. — the legislative muscle
- Lamont O. Repollet — President of Kean University, host site
Officially it’s NJ Transit’s project, built to support the state’s broader 250th tourism push and to give riders — students, history nerds, day-trippers, anyone without a car — a real reason to use the system beyond the daily commute.
What’s On the Map
A few of the 150+ sites you can reach without ever turning a key:
- Monmouth Battlefield State Park (Manalapan) — site of the 1778 battle and June’s full-scale reenactment
- Old Tennent Presbyterian Church (Manalapan) — served as a Continental Army field hospital during that same battle
- Washington Crossing State Park (Titusville) — yes, that crossing
- Fort Lee Historic Park — where Washington’s army retreated in 1776, sparking Thomas Paine’s “These are the times that try men’s souls”
- Jockey Hollow (Morristown) — Continental Army winter encampment, 1779–80
- Historic New Bridge Landing (River Edge) — the bridge that saved the Revolution
- Potter’s Tavern (Bridgeton) — birthplace of NJ’s first newspaper
- Tea Burner’s Monument (Greenwich) — where South Jersey held its own tea party in 1774
- Cannon Ball House (Springfield) — still has the cannonball lodged in the wall
- General Frelinghuysen House — colonial home of a founding political dynasty
The map shows you the fastest transit route to every one. No driving, no parking, no Turnpike toll math.
How Long Will It Be Around?
Here’s where it gets interesting. The campaign was timed to the 250th anniversary year, which technically wraps July 4, 2026. But the map itself lives at njtransit.com/journeys as a permanent resource — there’s no published sunset date.
Translation: use it now while the 250th programming is in full swing and the historic sites are actually staffed, but the map isn’t going anywhere when the confetti settles.
How to Actually Use It
- Go to njtransit.com/journeys
- Pick a site
- The map tells you which bus, train, or light rail to take and the closest stop
- Buy your ticket in the NJ Transit app
- Get off, walk a few blocks, stand where it happened
No rental car. No GPS yelling at you. No “I’ll go next weekend” excuses.
NJ Transit catches a lot of flak — some of it earned. But this is the kind of project that gets done quietly, costs almost nothing, and gives the average rider something genuinely useful. A bus pass and an afternoon are now enough to put you on the actual ground of American history.
