Point Pleasant BeachManasquan Inlet, NJ

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Getting in

Shore access, walk in off the sand

Best conditions

Divers enter over the rocks where the bulkhead meets the south jetty and go only at slack water; the current runs hard through the rest of the cycle. For anglers the fall mullet run from mid September brings bluefish blitzes into the inlet, and striped bass move through in spring and again in fall.

Getting through the gate

The swimming beaches are badge beaches. Jenkinson's, the private boardwalk beach, sells season badges at $130 for age 12 and up, with a $95 senior rate at 65, and day badges at $14 on weekdays and $15 on weekends; children under 12 are free with an adult, and swimming stops when the lifeguards go off duty. The borough's Maryland Avenue beach listed its own badge at $145 a season, $85 for seniors, or $18 a day for 2025. The inlet jetty is fishing and diving access with no badge.

Parking

Metered on-street parking from March 1 through October 31, seven days a week, by coin or card meter or a numbered pay-by-space slip. Spots near the south jetty are scarce.

Protection

State regulation confines diving in Manasquan Inlet to within 50 feet of the stone jetties and bulkheads, and only east of a line from Ocean Avenue in Point Pleasant Beach to First Avenue in Manasquan (N.J.A.C. 13:82-3.17).

On site

lifeguard on duty

Watch for

Boat traffic through the inlet channel can be extremely heavy, right beside the jetty dive and casting range, The concrete jacks at the seaward end of the jetties are deadly in a surge; people have died pinned between them by waves, Tidal current runs hard outside the slack window at the jetty, and the current under the railroad bridge upstream is also strong at anything but slack

Checked 2026-08-23. Sources: Jenkinson's Boardwalk (private beach operator): beach badges, Patch (local news): 2026 Jersey Shore beach badge guide, Point Pleasant Beach Police Department: parking, New Jersey Scuba Diving: Manasquan River Inlet, New Jersey Scuba Diving: railroad bridge, New Jersey Administrative Code 13:82-3.17 (Cornell LII), The Fisherman: Manasquan Inlet.