Welcome to Manasquan Inlet, USCG Station, NJ

Small-craft facilities are along Cooks Creek, Crabtown Creek, and tributaries, and up Manasquan River near the two bridges a mile inside Manasquan Inlet, and near Point Pleasant and Riviera Beach. Commercial fishing wharves, a 300-ton railway, and other small-craft facilities are along Wills Hole Thoroughfare, westward of Cooks Creek. In 2004, depths of 1.1 to 7.0 feet were available. Mariners should favor the south side of the waterway for deepest water.
Navigation:
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Manasquan Inlet, 22 miles southward of Sandy Hook Light, is the Atlantic entrance to Manasquan River and the northern terminus of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway. Manasquan Inlet Coast Guard Station is on the south side of the inlet.
The north jetty is marked by a light on its outer end. The south jetty is marked by a light near the outer end; a sound signal is at the south jetty light. Give the jetties a good berth to avoid any loose rocks.
A marked dredged channel leads through Manasquan Inlet and extends about 5 miles up Manasquan River. In 2011, the midchannel controlling depth was 7 feet in the inlet to the first bridge; thence in 1997 and 1998, 2 feet to a point just N of the entrance to Point Pleasant Canal; thence in 1967, reported centerline depths of 6 feet to the third bridge; thence in 1986, 2.5 feet (4 feet at midchannel) for about 0.7 mile from the third bridge, thence about 1 foot on the centerline to the head of the project.
The railroad bridge at Mile 1.0 has a 48-foot bascule span over Manasquan River with a clearance of 3 feet. The bridgetender monitors VHF-FM channel 13 (156.65 MHz); call sign, KT-4203. The State Route 35 highway bridge at Mile 1.3 has a bascule span with a clearance of 30 feet. The overhead power cable on the west side has a clearance of 107 feet. The current velocity is about 2.2 knots at the highway bridge.
The State Route 70 highway bridge over Manasquan River at Riviera Beach has a fixed span with a clearance of 25 feet.
Cooks Creek, Mile 0.4, is an outlet for Lake Louise on the south side of Manasquan River. The fixed highway bridge over the creek has a 28-foot channel span with a clearance of 10 feet. Depths are about 8.5 feet below the bridge decreasing to 2 feet above it.
Crabtown Creek, Mile 0.9, enters Manasquan River on the north side. The staked channel has a controlling depth of about 5 feet for 0.7 mile into the northwest fork. The highway bridge over the creek has a 31-foot bascule span with a clearance of 9 feet.