New Jersey

The so-named North Jersey Coast begins at Sandy Hook and continues south through Long Branch and Asbury Park to Bay Head, the south end of the New Jersey Transit line from Manhattan.


Atlantic City

New Jersey's Atlantic coast, a 130-mile stretch of almost uninterrupted resorts -- some rowdy, some run-down, some undeveloped and peaceful -- has long been reliant on farming and tourism. No profitable ports were established, nor did short-lived attempts at whaling come to anything. In the late 1980x, the whole coastline suffered severe and well-publicized pollution from ocean dumping. But today, the beaches, if occasionally somewhat crowded, are safe and clean: sandy, broad, and lined by characteristic wooden boardwalks.



Spring Lake


Seaside New Jersey offers an amazingly varied string of locales that serve equally well for a day at the beach or a short-stay bed-and-breakfast destination, and as a suburban bedroom community. The rowdy, sleaszy glitz of Atlantic City is perhaps the shore's best known attraction, though there are also quieter resorts like Spring Lake and Victorian Cape May.
Spring Lake is the leafiest of all the communities, and the town has strict regulations to keep it first and foremost a pleasant place to live.



Victorian Cape May

New Jersey is easily accessible from New York City. Visitors most often travel from New York to northern New Jersey for the great shopping: from huge malls and designer outlet stores to ethnic emporiums. Traveling west on the interstates from the shore or from New York City, however, visitors see the New Jersey of popular imagination: heavily industralized, a cultural desert, peppered with run-down cities like Trenton and Paterson. Visit DestinationJerseyCity.com for more information about Jersey City.