New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council

The Highlands Council provides the following data and tools for use by GIS professionals.

Data Downloads

Visit the NJ Highlands Open Data page to access Highlands Council GIS data in a variety of formats.

LiDAR Contour Data

The Highlands Council provides LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data for all 88 Highlands municipalities. Files below contain two-foot contours derived from 2018 LiDAR data.
Digital elevation model and raw LAS files are available upon request. Please contact gis.mailbox@highlands.nj.gov for more information or assistance with these files.

Municipal files are organized by county.