Best Advice for Visiting the Jersey Shore This Summer

Beginning Memorial Day weekend, the Jersey Shore will be packed with people from northern New Jersey and the surrounding areas. Many will be high school students and college-age kids looking to party; others will be families with young children attempting to make memories that will last a lifetime. Summer at the Jersey Shore is a spectacle, an experience some cherish and others loathe. Here is the best advice for visiting the Jersey Shore this summer.

1. Do not plan to leave for the Jersey Shore on Friday afternoon and return on Sunday night. The Garden State Parkway looks like a parking lot at these times. A one or two hour trip can easily take six if you don't plan properly. The weekenders at the Jersey Shore never seem to learn. Try to travel during odd hours. If work gets in your way, reschedule things or take days off.

2. Avoid the major holidays. Why anyone would want to spend Memorial Day weekend or the 4th of July at the Jersey Shore is beyond me. It's chaotic. The bars and restaurants, beaches and boardwalks are all packed. Traffic is murder. It is simply no fun.

3. Choose your exact destinations carefully. For instance, Seaside Heights might be a nice place to spend the day with your family, but a week-long vacation with little ones is better spent someplace else. This is where the teens now come to party, and it can be an ugly, ugly scene. The streets become littered, the language is fucking obscene. Investigate, ask around, make calls. Maybe take your family to Wildwood.

4. Obey the laws. Sound simplistic? Well, for some reason during the summer season at the Jersey Shore, it's not. Bar fights, noise violations, and worst of all, drunk driving incidents, are all out of control. Whether you are eighteen or eighty-eight, abide the laws and you will have a better time, because enforcement at the Jersey Shore during the summer is very, very strict.

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