GPS USAGE

If using a GPS to get to Sea Gulls’ Nest, you will need to use your ‘points of interest’ (POI) guide that comes with most GPS units. Locate ‘Sandy Hook LIghthouse’ in Highlands, NJ and use that as your final destination. The GPS should guide you to Sandy Hook, and hopefully get you inside the park. There is only one road that enters the park, and this is the road that Sea Gulls’ Nest is located on.

As you are directed by your GPS towards the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, you will first need to pass by Sea Gulls’ Nest. We are located 2 miles from the entrance of Sandy Hook. You will first pass by some smaller parking lots and some small one story buildings. However, you will then see a very large parking lot on your right hand side, and you will see a two-story cedar shingle building with a canopy roof. Sea Gulls’ Nest is the top level of this two-story building.

(If you reach the ranger station with the yellow flashing lights you have gone too far!)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

Coming from the North (north of exit 117 on the Garden State Parkway)

Garden State Parkway to exit 117

Bear left after you pass thru toll booth and follow signs for route 36

Take route 36 all the way to the ocean (about 25 minutes)

Go over bridge and stay to your right and follow signs into Sandy Hook Park

After passing thru fee plaza, Sea Gulls’ Nest is 2 miles into the park on right.

Coming from South (south of exit 105 on the Garden State Parkway)

Garden State Parkway to exit 105

Take route 36 east all the way to Ocean Blvd.

Make a left on Ocean Blvd (headed north)

Ocean Blvd. becomes Ocean Avenue. Follow straight for 10 minutes and follow road straight into Sandy Hook Park.

After passing thru fee plaza, Sea Gulls’ Nest is 2 miles into the park on right.

FERRY DIRECTIONS

Take SeaStreak Ferry from Manhattan and get off at Sandy Hook

(Do NOT get off at Highlands - You must get off iNSIDE Sandy Hook Park)

After departing the ferry, there will be two shuttle buses (on weekends) waiting. One shuttle bus will take visitors to the North Beaches, which include Gunnison Beach (Nude Beach), and North Beach.

The other shuttle bus takes visitors to the South Beaches, which includes Parking Lot (Area) D, which is where Sea Gulls’ Nest is located.

Weekday ferry service is also available, as well as shuttle buses inside Sandy Hook on a more limited basis.