Thompsons Beach
Maurice River, NJ


Access: Public access 24 hours per day

Description: Paved parking lot and elevated viewing platform under some of the darkest skies and best horizons in NJ. Great for setting up a telescope, time lapse, or Milky Way photography. There is a 1/2 mile path from parking lot to beach which is also great for landscape night photography. Also a popular spot for telescope observing.

Notes: Lots of flies in summer months. Parking lot and road may flood during exceptional tides. Lots of great foreground shrubs and stick trees on road leading to parking lot which is great for foregrounds for Milky Way photography.