Sandy Hook – Gateway National Recreation Area — Attraction in Middletown Township

Beach combing and hiking around the tip of Sandy Hook after tropical storm, Ophelia spun in for the second time. A place where land and sea are confused in turmoil during increasingly turbulent storms. Littoral currents wash north, bringing sand and debris from the south to the last strand of sandy beach on the Jersey Shore. We parked at Area "M" and hiked out to the inside bay area through dunes, past a tidal estuary, rolled up our pants and forded a fast rushing rivulet to reach the point with a channel buoy washed up, then around the point, along the beach to a fully rigged stranded thirty foot "J" Class sloop heeled over, high and dry. Sea and air were in the mid sixties with NNE winds. Fishermen caught fluke and spot along the shore. The fish were hungry after sulking during the storm. It was the last day of fluke season. Fishermen had their way with large keeper fluke. Everything comes together out on the tip of the Hook. It's always an exhilarating adventure to...

Always an amazing time at Sandy Hook recreational center. I've been traveling all around Europe going to a lot of beaches and Sandy Hook is very clean compared to long branch Monmouth beach New Jersey Beaches., thank you federal rangers for keeping the beaches clean at Gateway national recreation center. I know how much of a challenge it is because people leave lots of garbage everywhere and...

Beautifully protected Sandy Hook is called Gateway national recreational area it’s a federal park it’s amazing beaches and it’s in Sandy Hook New Jersey!! oh if you want a nice tan see some pretty girls or guys that’s the place to go, and it’s got World War II gun placement still there not the guns but tunnels where they ran to ammunition in case the Germans came...