My favorite time of year at the Jersey Shore!…read more Christmas in July! Life guard stands decorated with everything Christmas! And playing Christmas songs! Life Guards wearing Santa hats! Absolutely love it!!

I've been coming here my entire life, as did my parents and grandparents. (I have a picture of my…read moregrandfather with my father as a young boy, standing on the beach with a bamboo fishing pole and metal bucket. The back of the photo reads "Lavallette 1929") I love it here and aside from the nostalgia, it is a treasure of the Jersey Shore. The beautiful oceanfront boardwalk is absolutely spectacular any time of year and is a valuable amenity to the entire area, as well the entire State. The whitest, most powdery sand in New Jersey. And certainly one the the best maintained beaches anywhere. As a kid, going "down the shore" always meant Lavallette to me. Remarkably nothing much has changed: there are larger houses and perhaps more people, but the character and vibe remains unchanged. Happy families, laughing and running children, coming of age teens. First kisses, summer loves. Growing up. Surfboards, beach bikes, crabbing. It's that kind of place. But note: if you're looking for the Seaside Heights crowd here, keep driving. Lavallette is all-American clean-cut family fun.

The Jersey shore is my sanctuary! This is a beautiful beach…read moreto enjoy with your family! Board walk, aquarium, rides for young children, food & games! Seasonal events to celebrate holidays and have fireworks in the summer. Enjoy the gorgeous sunrise! Metered parking Or paid parking lots Season beach passes or pay for the day passes

absolutely worse beach I've been to. I haven't been here in 6 years and for good reason. My sister…read moreinsisted I come here, and within 20 mins of arriving to the beach, I got a $250 ticket for smoking a cigarette off the boardwalk, off the sidewalk and into a private lot which the dude who was a retired cop told me I was fine to smoke there. Three officers with their mouths nearly drooling wasted no time telling me I'm getting a ticket. I told them I walked past 3 signs where it said no smoking to get where I was and I was in a private lot, what rules did I break? The 3 bozos needed to make their quota clearly and told me its because i lit the cigarette a few feet away from the lot before stepping in it (using the building as a wall barrier to get a light because it was super windy today). They had 0 humanity in handling the situation and basically penalized me for following the rules but missed it by a few feet. I don't need to be policed at a public beach for following the rules. Mind you after my ticket, 3 gentlemen were smoking on the sidewalk and I had warned them to come to the lot right away to avoid tickets and they thanked me as we related how ridiculous the policing was. When I walked past the same officers, i told them why didn't you give them tickets, you all 3 were watching and they replied with "at least they went into the lot" meaning they specifically targeted me and thought I was easy pickings. Well they wont have to worry again, my family and I will never come back to this nazi beach again.

Private beach which is deeper than most beaches on the barrier island…read more Parking is a little tight since sandy but the beach is amazing. Perfectly situated 1/2 between seaside heights and point pleasant and right by local shopping centers. close to a local bar.

Boats, beautiful bay and booze (except for the Capitan of course). When in Rome, enjoy the view.read more

Free entrance beach that is well maintained! Keep it clean and don't bring your filth to the…read morepublic. Showers on each entrance and restrooms at some areas. See images for reference.

tbh, I was afraid of going to the beaches outside of Atlantic, Asbury. it's so clean, quite, people…read moreare nice... as a black woman with a young blk son i felt so welcomed. we went 10am and left at 2:30pm. I loved it will be going back.

PROS: This town is very nice. The beach is for residents only and is gated with a lock that only…read morethe homeowners have a key to. Nice homes, good restaurants CONS: Major flooding area. The homes here are in great danger of a major flood since there so close to the water OVERALL: Great to visit the place but I wouldn't move here due to the risk

MANTOLOKING: it's local summer and soon most beaches and boardwalks will allow dogs again!!…read more Look at this gorgeous view of the ocean from the top of a dune! Mantoloking beaches allow leashed dogs in-season from Sunrise-8am and 6pm-Sunset. In the off-season (10/1-5/14), leashed dogs are allowed anytime!

Terrific place for a walk or bike ride. Flat, straight, beautiful homes on one side, clean ocean…read moreon the other (lots of dolphins in summer), and you can watch the boats enter and exit the Inlet. Not a lot of food choices, but that's a plus for me.

Really enjoy walking this board walk. In the summer time got to come early if you want to avoid…read morecrowds. Still it's worth the day trip

Do you enjoy paying out of the nose for EVERYTHING? Do you enjoy walking 12 blocks to the beach,…read morebecause EVERY SINGLE parking space is taken; and I mean EVERY. SINGLE. ONE? Do you like being shoulder to shoulder on a gravelly beach, as quads tear down the beach in front of and behind you? If so, boy do I have a beach for you! I knew something was wrong when we were crossing the bridge INTO POINT PLEASANT, and I saw people walking with their beach stuff. I literally said to my wife, "thats a terrible sign. If people are walking from HERE, it must be PAAAAAAAAAAAACKED." Understatement of the year. Mind you, this was a SUNDAY AFTERNOON, when most people are usually heading BACK from the shore. There was ABSOLUTELY NOT A SINGLE SPOT to be had in the entirety of Point Pleasant. We parked on like St. Louis and Philadelphia, at the ABSOLUTE END of a dead end street, which is about 5 or 6 CITY blocks from the beach. (A PRIVATE beach, by the way, so we also had to walk about 3-4 blocks up to get to the peasant section where the Poors could participate.) In fact, after parking, and realizing how far of a walk it was, I drove my wife and daughter to the beach and dropped them off with all the supplies so they wouldn't have to endure the military grade road march, and drove back to where our spot was. It was taken by the time I got back. MAYBE 3 minutes total. I'm not exaggerating about the parking issue. Spots would get taken AS people were pulling out of them. I found my spot by basically stalking a family walking to their car and hopping in their spot the millisecond they left. They weren't even done the K turn in the street before I was in their abandoned spot. It's a nightmare. Once you hit the parking lottery and do find a spot, head up to the kiosk to stand in line to pay for the privilege of setting foot on PPs gravel beach. The sand here is 30 grit sand paper. It's so coarse that it doesn't even feel like SAND. The price for all this is $15 per adult. (Saving grace; kids under 12 are free, and veterans are free....a rare W for Point Pleasant.) Once onto gravel beach, good luck finding a spot, as the beach is as packed as the parking spots. Also, after setting up, keep an eye out for the life guards zooming back and forth on their 4 wheelers. There is no dedicated path, lane or area; they just zoom in and out of the beach goers. Also, for the love of god, I hope you don't get hungry, or even worse, have to use the bathroom. Your options are $47 pizza (that is not an exaggeration), and a mobile port-a-potty set up in a parking lot, with a line extending back to the boardwalk. I almost forgot to mention the waves. I'm not sure if this is a Point Pleasant problem, or if it was just a rough day, but the waves here are legit scary. I wouldn't let my 7 year old in the water past her ankles, and that was with me right by her side. Grown men were being knocked down and dragged back into the surf with every passing wave. Again, not sure if that's normal, but I saw another reviewer mentioning it, so I decided to throw my 2 cents in. If it IS a normal thing here, you are INSANE or have the parenting acumen of Casey Anthony, if you let your children go into this beaches ocean. UGH. I really, REALLY didn't feel going here was anywhere NEAR worth the time and cost it took to come here. I will not be back of my own volition. Positives are that it was very clean, the aforementioned discounts for vets and kids, and that it has that Jersey Shore, summer time beach vibe, if that is your thing. But, you better LOVE people if you're coming here. Me....I'm good.

Love this place! Different entrances, beautiful scenery and wildlife, very well maintained. Great…read moretrails, nice place to be in touch with nature & our dog loves it as much as we do. Warning--it's very wet after snow & rain.

My favorite place to walk through. So peaceful and well maintained. Occasional water views and easy…read moreto follow trails.