Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Atlantic Highlands is a great place to stop for a night or a week. Atlantic Highlands Harbor is located at the beginning (or end) of 1st Avenue. This is a great walking town, with everything a boater would need. There are two restuarants and a market located right in the harbor with plenty of transient slips and moorings. The harbor has a park, tennis and basketball courts, and a walking/biking trail that extends for 10+ miles through the shore towns.

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Small-craft facilities in the basin can provide berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, storage, marine supplies, launching ramps, pump-out station and hull and engine repair; mobile lifts up to 50 tons are available.
1st Ave begins at the harbor and is approximately eight blocks long, with shops and resturants to satisfy all tastes. There is also a movie theater.
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Atlantic Highlands is a town on the south side of Sandy Hook Bay about 2 miles west of Sandy Hook. A breakwater, marked by a light at its eastern end, forms an anchorage basin. In 2009, depths of 4 to 8 feet were available in the basin.
The basin is used by numerous pleasure and party fishing craft. Numerous piles and ruins of former wharves are westward of the basin.

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