Town · Spring Lake Borough, Monmouth County
Spring Lake
The quiet, elegant end of the Jersey Shore: grand old summer houses, a spring-fed lake with footbridges and a two-mile boardwalk with no shops at all.
Spring Lake is the quiet, elegant end of the Jersey Shore: wide, tree-lined streets of grand Victorian and early 20th-century summer houses, a small downtown, and a two-mile boardwalk with no shops or arcades at all, just the ocean. The spring-fed lake that gave the town its name sits in a park in the middle of town, crossed by footbridges.
Come out of season for long beach walks, or in summer for the beach itself (beach badges are required). Allaire State Park and its restored 19th-century village are about fifteen minutes inland.
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In and around Spring Lake
State Park · Wall Township, Monmouth County
Allaire State Park
Woods along the Manasquan River with Allaire Village, a restored 19th-century iron-making town, and the Pine Creek Railroad's vintage trains.
Also nearby
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Historic Village at Allaire
A restored 19th-century iron-making village inside Allaire State Park, with a general store, bakery, blacksmith and church.
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Allaire State Park
Woods along the Manasquan River with Allaire Village, a restored 19th-century iron-making town, and the Pine Creek Railroad's vintage trains.
