Cheesequake State Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey, occupies 1,610 acres at the mouth of Cheesequake Creek on Raritan Bay and is notable for combining tidal marshes, estuary, hardwood forest, open fields, white cedar swamp, and a small Pine Barrens outlier in one compact area. Created through land purchases beginning in 1938 after state funding was approved in 1937, the park was further developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and opened in June 1940. Its Lenape-derived name has several proposed meanings tied to upland or cleared land, reflecting the park’s meeting point of wooded higher ground and coastal wetlands, a defining ecological transition.