Welcome To The Town With It All - Clinton, New Jersey
The area surrounding Clinton in historic Hunterdon County, New Jersey, is renowned for its stunning natural beauty throughout the year and offers numerous attractions, historic sites, and seasonal events for you and the family's enjoyment. All year round, Clinton and Hunterdon County host a wealth of festivities that include balloon festivals, winter carnivals, harvest festivals, agricultural fairs, antiquing opportunities, and more - guaranteed to provide you with a memorable experience when you stay at the Hampton Inn of Clinton.
Appreciate Clinton's Natural Surroundings
On the western side of Central New Jersey, Clinton is located in Hunterdon County where the gently hilled farmland slopes downward toward the south branch of the Raritan River. Once known as Hunt's Mill, Clinton evokes a sense of comfort for travelers on the old west portal road between New York and Pennsylvania, when they first see the welcoming sight of the quintessential Victorian town of Clinton, New Jersey.
A unique destination experience, the Clinton area provides a wonderful retreat for outdoor recreation, with a superb blend of lakes, mountains, woodlands, and farms. The area offers hiking trails, mountain biking trails, numerous parks, playgrounds and nature preserves, equestrian farms, guided nature tours, and an observatory. The ideal base to experience all the Clinton area has to offer, the Hampton Inn will always welcome you back each season of the year.
Adventure
The perfect way to celebrate a special occasion, whether an engagement, birthday, or anniversary, in the Clinton area is an exhilarating hot-air balloon ride, with over ten hot-air balloon services around Clinton. Hunterdon County also offers kayaking, canoeing, sailing, spas, golf courses, ice sailing, jogging and cycling paths, horseback riding, motorcycling, and polo events. Every visit to the Clinton area will be a memorable experience.
Historic Footnotes and Landmarks
Clinton's Main Street has changed very little over the last 100 years with its fine homes and public buildings still intact, housing historical artifacts, its historic sites, art galleries, unique shops, and restaurants.
Clinton offers the wonderful ambiance of a historic American small town at its best. The old stomping ground of General George Washington when he defended America's independence, the area around Clinton holds over 200 years of history, wonderfully preserved for today's visitors and evident in the landmarks, museums, numerous state parks, antique and collectible shops, with over 40,000 historic artifacts to discover in and around Clinton.
Small Town Charm
Discover the best of Clinton and Hunterdon County's past and present in this picture-perfect-postcard, river town. Clinton offers fine dining, galleries, specialty shops, numerous antique shops, farmers' markets, outlet shopping, wineries, microbreweries, hay rides, corn mazes, pumpkin picking, and berry picking patches. Clinton's further attractions include riverside concerts, concerts in the park, music festivals, Balloon Festival, Ducky Day, Dickens Days, Community Day celebrations, haunted Red Mill weekends, the buffalo farm, picnic areas, church festivals, town fairs, holiday parades, and craft fairs.
Experience the charm of the Victorian town and visit Clinton's Main Street where the shopkeepers welcome you to stop by, browse, and chat. Historical Clinton still offers a five-and-dime store, an apothecary, a historic grist mill, a bootery, tackle shop, bakery, barbershop, a bookshop, dress shops, coffee shop, ice cream parlor, a waterfall, and plenty of stones to skim across the river. While you're busy making new memories in Clinton, you just might remember some very special old ones too.
Visit Clinton today and stay at our home... the Hampton Inn!


