My brother and I go to Double Trouble State Park in Bayville, NJ about five times a week in the spring and summer. It is filled with acres of woods and old waterfalls -- man made of course!
They say that you can find adventure in your own backyard, and man was that point driven home the other day... on a trip to the beach!
From West 35th Street and Pier 11 Wall Street in Manhattan, the Sea Streak will get you to Atlantic Highlands and Highlands, New Jersey in no time at all. The accomodations are like a wide body jet on the sea with video for the Wall Street crowd.
On the banks of the Atlantic Ocean, one weekend in June each year is the Belmar Seafood Festival. All the local seafood restaurants show their stuff as they serve up the best is lobster, crab, shrimp, clams and local delicacies.
The Baronet Theatre is a couple blocks from the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It opened in 1913 as the Ocean Theatre and was remodeled in 1953 to take on an art deco style.
Divine Park is in the center of the bucolic Jersey Shore of Spring Lake. It's spring fed lake is home to diverse waterfowl and is three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean.
Nothing like an ice cream at the beach.
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, located on the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. It was designed and built in 1764 by Isaac Conro.
Toward the end of summer 2007, the sun set over Lake Como, a little body of water on the border of Spring Lake and Lake Como adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean on the Jersey Shore. The water fowl are diverse and offer peaceful moments within a stones throw of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Funtown Pier remains a great summer spot for the whole family on the Jersey Shore in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.