The Garden State Parkway at Exit 69. Go west on Route 532. Watch for park signs on your left after about 1.5 miles. There is a nature center with a cranberry display. Wells Mills Lake has trails meandering around it.
Canoe rentals are also available at a nominal cost.
Include are music, piney vittles and hand-made crafts. Imprisoned by Colonial forces in 1788 for his loyalty to British King George III, his lands were purchased at auction by James Wells. Wells, realizing the value of the Atlantic white cedar on his newly acquired property, built a sawmill and dammed Oyster Creek to create a mill pond for water power. For almost a century, the mill flourished under Wells and other owners. Ports all along the Atlantic coast received shipments of lumber milled at this thriving hamlet.