Camden
Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, United States. Located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The population was 71,791 at the 2020 census. The city was incorporated on February 13, 1828. Camden has been the county seat of Camden County since the county's formation on March 13, 1844. The city derives its name from Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Camden is made up of over 20 neighborhoods, and is part of the South Jersey region of the state.
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Worth seeing in and around Camden
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Pennsylvania
Private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
7.7 km · Wikipedia - 02
- 03Lincoln Financial Field
American football stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
6.9 km · Wikipedia - 04Q818735
Multi-purpose indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
7.2 km · Wikipedia - 05
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- 07Philadelphia City Hall
Historic building housing Philadelphia's municipal government
5.2 km · Wikipedia - 08Drexel University
Private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7.4 km · Wikipedia - 09
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01USS Battleship New Jersey Museum
- 02Walt Whitman House
Visits by guided tour only., Call for tour schedule.
- 03Wiggins Park and Marina
- 04Adventure Aquarium
Over two-dozen sharks in the 550,000-gallon Shark Realm.
- 05Rutgers - Camden Center for the Arts
May-Aug Mon-Fri 10AM-4PM; Sept-Apr Mon-Sat 10AM-4PM; Thu until 8PM.
- 06Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
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Where to eat
There is food available at the Aquarium and at the BB&T Pavilion. Some other places are the following:
- 01Market Street Pizzeria
Family-friendly pizzeria and Italian bistro.
- 02Market Gourmet
Popular with locals and students, it is rather like a Wawa: a convenience store with good sandwiches and other deli-esque fare.
- 03Cooper Court
Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Haddon Ave & Mickle Blvd, toll-free: +1-800-8-COOPER (266737).
- 04Corrine's Place
1254 Haddon Ave.,.
- 05Friends Cafe
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Getting to Camden
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 14 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 115 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 137 km
- Stations
- 30th Street Station, 6.8 km
- New York → Camden129 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · $12–16
- Newark → Camden121 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $11–15
- Baltimore → Camden146 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Camden
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Camden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can also take a bike on the train and cycle from Macarthur or Campbelltown to Camden, and an off-road/quiet road cycle route all the way from Campbelltown station to Camden.
- Get inIf you're wanting a charter flight from Sydney to get out to some of the countryside in a hurry, Camden offers better value than the other Sydney airports.
From Wikivoyage: Camden (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Camden
Camden is 5 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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