Photo tour: Every Beach from Sandy Hook to Island Beach. Virtual Jersey Shore walk.
Updated: Sep 5, 2021

As we approach the start of the peak period when people visit the Jersey Shore, we're here to help you discover new beaches or re-discover beaches along the northern section of the Jersey Shore. Starting with a view of New York City from the beach at Sandy Hook, see photos of all 28 town, county and state beaches up to including Island Beach State Park with its view across the Barnegat Inlet to Long Beach Island.
Click on the links below each photo to find out which beaches are free or require beach badges, where to park and a bit history of each area.
Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area

Sea Bright story

Monmouth Beach story

Seven Presidents Park (Monmouth County's Only Beach)

Long Branch story and Elberon neighborhood story

Deal story

Allenhurst story

Loch Harbor story

Asbury Park story

Ocean Grove story

Bradley Beach story

Avon by the Sea story

Belmar story

Spring Lake story

Sea Girt story

National Guard Training Center Beach

Manasquan story

Pt. Pleasant Beach story

Bay Head story

Mantoloking story

Brick Beaches story

North Dover Beaches/Toms River Township story

Lavallette story

Ortley story

Seaside Heights story

Seaside Park story

South Seaside Park/Berkeley Township story

Island Beach State Park story

This spring, summer and fall, follow Jersey Shore author and expert R.C. Staab as he walks the entire 139 miles of the Jersey Shore coastline from Sandy Hook to Island Beach State Park, the length of Long Beach Island from Old Barney to the Edwin Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, from Brigantine to Cape May.
