Long Branch New Jersey

Long Branch New Jersey is a Happenin' Town, a Great Place to Live, Shop, Work and Have a Lot of Fun

Long Branch New Jersey, like so many towns on the Jersey Shore, started out as a resort town that attracted the rich and famous, including presidents. As a matter of fact, so many presidents visited Long Branch New Jersey that a park is named to commemorate this fact, the Seven Presidents State Park. Visitors from Philadelphia and New York City were lured by the healthy sea air, a railway from the city, and the gambling casinos. Long Branch once boasted the longest pier on the Jersey coast, built in 1902, from which visitors could fish all day long.

Gambling was abolished, and the race and economic issues affected the town in the sixties and the pier burned down in the eighties, all leading to a decline in Long Branch's fortunes. But now it is back, and with a vengeance. There is a new boardwalk and the 33 acre State Park offers swimming, boating, picnic tables and a skate park. The families who had the little bungalows on the beach years ago wouldn't recognize the high rise condos that fill the skyline today.

And the reason for those condos is all the people who are attracted to the new Long Branch life style. Within these few square mile on the beach is some of the best shopping, eating and entertainment on the shore.

Pier One Village is a fabulous shopping and eating heaven, with 30 boutiques and restaurants, with luxury condos right above them, situated right next to (and with a stunning view of) the ocean.

Check out Avenue Nuit Club,an incredible indoor outdoor nightclub that will make you feel like you are in Paris or St. Tropez, or the cutting edge hip of the Bungalow Hotel, a boutique hotel that feels like it was plucked whole from Manhattan and dropped next to the water here in New Jersey.

The train to New York, or the Garden State Parkway to Northern New Jersey makes commuting a breeze, but there is so much right in Long Branch that, theoretically, you don't ever have to leave. Monmouth University, Monmouth Medical Center, Monmouth Race Track, the New Jersey Repertory Company, and a restaurant in every other doorway on Ocean Avenue, from elegant French and Italian inspired venues, to the down to earth but delicious Windmill, famous for its hot dogs.

Swim in the ocean, stroll on the boardwalk, spend a day at the track, take some classes, go to a play, a restaurant or a club. Oh, and did we mention shopping? The What to Do List at Long Branch is never ending.

After all of this activity, treat yourself to a spa day at Ocean Place Spa and Resort to rejuvinate.

Every 4th of July, Long Branch New Jersey celebrates with the biggest Independence Day celebration in New Jersey, Oceanfest, with food, fairs and fireworks.

If you head straight to Seaside, Cape May or Wildwood every summer, maybe it's time you gave this sparkling jewel on the northern end of the Jersey Shore a try!