Kayak camping, tides & launches: New Jersey Shore & Barnegat Bay
New Jersey Shore & Barnegat Bay: Coastal paddling with 39 campsites, 117 boat launches and 83 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 11 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (32 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.
Campsites
From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 0 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (馃浂). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.
Fee or reservation (10)
- Batona Camp
- Bodine Field Campground
- Brendan T. Byrne State Forest Campground
- Cheesequake State Park Group Campground
- Godfrey Bridge Campground
- Group Campground
- Hawkins Bridge Campground
- North Shore Campground
- South Shore Campground
- Wading Pines Camping Resort
Free or backcountry (1)
Fees not recorded (check locally) (22)
- Allaire State Park Campground
- Allaire State Park Group Campground
- Atlantic Shore Pines Campground
- Baker's Acres Campground
- Buttonwood Campground
- Camp Dix
- Camp Gateway - Sandy Hook
- Camp Sacajawea
- Campgrounds
- Capik Scout Camp
- Cedar Creek Family Campground
- Cheesequake State Park Campground
- Chips Folly Campground
- Family Campground
- Pilgrim Lake Camp Grounds
- Quail Hill Scout Reservation
- Scrabble Pines Campground
- Sea Pirate Campground
- Sleepy Hollow Campgrounds
- Swan Lake Resort
- Timberland Lake Campground
- Timberline Lake Campground
Tide stations
Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.
- Absecon Channel, State Route 87 bridge
- Absecon, Absecon Creek, U.S. Hwy. 30 bridge
- Atlantic City (Ocean)
- Atlantic Highlands
- Barnegat Inlet, USCG Station
- Barnegat Pier
- Beach Haven Coast Guard Station
- Beach Haven Crest
- Beaverdam Creek entrance
- Beaverdam Creek, inside
- Beesleys Point
- Belmar, Atlantic Ocean
- Brielle, Route 35 bridge
- Brigantine Channel @ Hoffman Thorofare
- Cedar Creek
- Cedar Run
- Chestnut Neck Boat Yard
- Coates Point
- Dinner Point Creek, upper end
- Dock Thorofare, Risley Channel
- Double Creek
- Flat Creek
- Forge Pond
- Forked River
- Goose Creek entrance
- Gooseneck Point, bridge
- Graveling Point
- Green Bank
- High Bar
- Highlands, Route 36 bridge
- Island Beach
- Island Beach, Sedge Islands
- Kettle Creek, Green Island
- Keyport
- Little Sheepshead Creek
- Long Branch (fishing pier)
- Long Branch Reach
- Longport (inside), Great Egg Harbor Inlet
- Loveladies Harbor
- Main Marsh Thorofare
- Manahawkin Creek
- Manahawkin Drawbridge
- Manasquan Inlet, USCG Station
- Mantoloking
- Matawan Creek, Route 35 bridge
- Middle Thorofare, Ocean Drive bridge
- Mill Creek, 1 n.mi. above entrance
- Nacote Creek, U.S. Highway 9 bridge
- New Bedford
- New Brunswick
- New Gretna, Bass River
- North Beach
- Ocean Beach
- Oceanic Bridge, Navesink River
- Old Bridge, South River
- Oyster Creek
- Parker Run, upper end
- Pleasantville, Lakes Bay, Great Egg Harbor Inlet
- Red Bank, Navesink River
- Riviera Beach
- Sayreville
- Sea Bright
- Seaside Heights, ocean
- Seaside Park
- Seven Island, Newmans Thorofare
- Shark River Hills
- Shark River Island, fixed RR. bridge
- Silver Bay, Silver Bay Marina
- Sloop Creek
- Steelmanville, Patcong Ck., 2.5 nm above ent.
- Stouts Creek
- Sweetwater, Mullica River Marina
- Tall Pines Camp
- Toms River (town), Toms River
- Tuckerton Creek entrance
- Tuckerton, Shooting Thorofare, Little Egg Inlet
- Tuckerton, Tuckerton Creek
- Ventnor City, ocean pier
- Waackaack Creek
- Wading River (town), Wading River
- Waretown
- West Creek, Westecunk Creek
- Westecunk Creek entrance
Tidal currents and slack water
- Absecon Inlet
- Barnegat Inlet
- Highlands Bridge, Shrewsbury River
- Manahawkin Drawbridge
- Manasquan Inlet
- Manasquan R., hwy. bridge, main chan
- Point Pleasant Canal, north bridge
- Seabright Bridge, Shrewsbury River
- Shark River Entrance
- South River entrance
- Washington Canal, north entrance
Boat launches
- 5th Street Boat Ramp
- Barnegat Light Boat Ramp
- Bass Harbour Boat Ramp
- Beach Haven Municipal Boat Ramp
- Beesleys's Point
- Boat Launch
- Crowley Landing
- Edison Boat Basin
- Manasquan Boat Launch
- Municipal Boat Launch
- Ore Pond Kayak Launch
- Public Boat Ramp
- Richard W. Bergen Jr. Boat Ramp
- Sands Point Boat Ramp
- Seaview Dock
- Ship Bottom Boat Ramp
- Toms River Boat Ramp
- U.S. Coast Guard - Station Sandy Hook
- Winter Anchorage Canoe & Kayak Access
Plus 98 unnamed launches on the map.
Marine forecast areas
Coastal waters from Great Egg Inlet to Cape May NJ out 20 NM 路 Coastal waters from Little Egg Inlet to Great Egg Inlet NJ out 20 NM 路 Coastal waters from Manasquan Inlet to Little Egg Inlet NJ out 20 NM 路 Coastal waters from Sandy Hook to Manasquan Inlet NJ out 20 NM 路 New York Harbor
Download for GPS and other map apps
39 campsites and 115 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).