Five miles of boardwalk, four towns, no beach badges.
Cape May County·South Shore
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The Wildwoods are five miles of barrier island at the southern end of the Jersey Shore, divided into four municipalities that share a single boardwalk and a working-class vacation tradition that nothing else on the East Coast still keeps.
Wildwood is the engine: the boardwalk runs through it, the piers (Morey's, Mariner's), the loud food, the iconic motels along Pacific Avenue. North Wildwood is the Doo-Wop heartland, the heaviest concentration of preserved 1950s-1960s plastic-and-neon motel architecture left in America. Wildwood Crest is the family-quiet south end, the wider beaches, the lower-key motels. West Wildwood is the small inland borough on the bayside — residential, fewer visitors, the place people from the other three live when they retire.
Beach badges are free across all four — one of the only stretches of the Shore that doesn't charge. Parking, motel rates, restaurant scenes, and boardwalk access all vary by which Wildwood you pick. Choose the town first.
9 places across The Wildwoods. Tap a town above for badges, parking, and beach rules specific to that municipality.