Choose Long Branch beach FIRST as your Jersey shore destination for its easy accessibility, the city's year-round activity, and Long Branch's exciting growth and development.

Long Branch beach is part of a 25-mile uninterrupted and walkable stretch of beach that is part of the 130-mile Atlantic Ocean-facing New Jersey shore. Long Branch beach is located six miles south of Sandy Hook National Park (the northernmost point on the Jersey shore) and is just north of the towns of Deal and Asbury Park.

Long Branch beach is located a few minutes from GSP Exit 105 and is the first major Jersey shore town coming south from northern parts of the state.

Long Branch beach offers convenient paid parking using the app available here or using paystations that accept cash or credit cards. Parking is available at large lots near Pier Village, or on-street at numbered spaces all along the beach. Please note that within the app Pier Village parking is zone LB2 ($2-$3/hour) and all other parking is zone LB1 ($2/hour). Additional free parking is available in residential areas west of Ocean Boulevard. Long Branch beach can accommodate thousands of visitor cars.

Click here for a live Google map overlaid with Long Branch beach parking, accesses, facilities, and amenities. Also you can directly launch your smartphone GPS app from the beach map website, preloaded to get directions from your current location anywhere to the Long Branch beach parking lot entrance just west of Ocean Boulevard near Pier Village.

Long Branch beach is comprised of two miles of beach with adjacent boardwalk, then an additional three miles with adjacent homes and a county park. This gives a total of five miles of public beach with numerous access points indicated on this beach map. The picture above of Cottage Place beach entrance shows the adjacent boardwalk that dramatically overlooks the beach from atop a 10 to 27-foot bluff. Also shown at Cottage Place is a modern restroom building, and stairs and handicap ramp down to the beach where there is an outdoor shower.

Numerous stairways and handicap ramps everywhere along the Long Branch beach boardwalk provide access eastward directly from the boardwalk down to the beach. Adjacent to and on the other (west) side of the boardwalk is the Ocean Ave. roadway that is shared by bicyclists, skateboarders, roller bladers and, in some sections vehicles accessing on-street and private parking. A sidewalk along the west side of the Ocean Ave. roadway is typically used by dog walkers, and also provides access to houses and residential buildings, some currently being redeveloped, that are discretely set back westward from the public beach, boardwalk, roadway and sidewalk.

Shown above is Long Branch beach (north) near 7 Presidents Park with amenities nearby including strategically located modern restrooms, outdoor showers, snack bars, restaurants, and shops of all types.

These two pictures show Long Branch beach at Pier Village (central) and West End (south) with numerous restaurants and shops nearby. The scenes above capture visitors and residents enjoying band concerts at Pier Village (eclectic, each summer Thursday evening) and at West End (blues and jazz, each summer Sunday evening).

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