Cape May, New Jersey
More Than a Charming Summer
Beach Resort Destination

It's charm lies in it's tree-lined, gas lamp streets, it's quaint shops, authentic Victorian homes and Bed and Breakfasts. One of it's claims is that it possesses the largest collection of authentic Victorian homes in the nation.

Cape May restaurants are unique in that it's rare to find so many top rated charming restaurants in a concentrated area, especially on the Jersey Shore.

You can park your car and bike or walk around town. In fact, If you're coming to Cape May for the first time, make a stop at the Welcome Area of the Transportation Center (where the buses go) off Lafayette Street across from the Acme shopping center and pick up a guide map on a "Car Free/Care Free" vacation.

The average temperatures in the summer are 78º in June, 84º in July, 83 º in August and 77º in September. The average monthly temperatures during the fall are 77ºF in September, 66ºF in October and 56ºF in November. The average monthly temperatures in the winter are 47º - 42º during December, January and February. March climbs up to about 51º. April's average is 60º and in May it can get as warm as 69º.

The beaches of this area, and especially of neighboring Wildwood, are very fine, powdery sand, and are considered to be some of the best in the USA.

If relaxing on the beach is not your thing, there are plenty of other activities that can occupy your day time leisure hours.

They include; bike riding, with many bike rentals available locally by the hour or day. Cycle down to the Cape May Light House built 1859 and listed on the State and National Registers of historic places, or the nearby Bird Observatory operated by the New Jersey Audubon society.

There is picnicking, beach walking at sunrise or sunset, where you might see schools of dolphins swimming by, whale and dolphin watching boat trips, kayaking in the salt water marshlands, a salt marsh safari, deep sea fishing, a nautical museum, and an historic W.W. II coastal defense gun emplacement.

Interested in the Victorian era, visit the Emlen Physick Estate, a Victorian house museum that provides a look back at the Victorian past of the area.

And don't miss Sunset Beach, there is something there for the whole family. Well known for it's spectacular over the water sunsets, it is also the site of the S. S. Atlantus, a World War l concrete ship embedded in a sandbar 150 feet off the beach, and the World War ll "Concrete Tower" that has recently undergone refurbishment and is now open to the public.