Note: New Jersey law requires the wearing of a PFD from November 1 through May 1.

Atlantic County

Atlantic County
( 39.49052, -74.63953 )

  1. Absecon Creek - Absecon ( 39.42635, -74.48653 )
  2. Atlantic City - Huron Ave ( 39.38023, -74.42392 )
  3. Atsion Lake - Pinelands ( 39.73989, -74.73128 )
  4. Barnegat Bay - Beach Haven ( 39.57015, -74.23933 )
  5. Barnegat Bay - Brant Beach ( 39.61673, -74.20110 )
  6. Barnegat Bay - Great Bay Blvd ( 39.56316, -74.34202 )
  7. Barnegat Bay - Little Egg Harbor ( 39.53556, -74.26441 )
  8. Barnegat Bay - Parkertown ( 39.60978, -74.29231 )
  9. Barnegat Bay - Tuckerton ( 39.57671, -74.33078 )
  10. Barnegat Bay - West Creek ( 39.63100, -74.29618 )
  11. Bass River - New Gretna ( 39.57721, -74.45079 )
  12. Batsto Lake - Batsto ( 39.64682, -74.65327 )
  13. Batsto River - Wharton State Forest ( 39.71014, -74.66747 )
  14. Bay Avenue - Ocean City ( 39.21643, -74.64678 )
  15. Cedar Run - Stafford ( 39.64365, -74.24592 )
  16. Cedar Swamp Creek (N) ( 39.26195, -74.70206 )
  17. Cedar Swamp Creek (S) ( 39.24889, -74.71257 )
  18. Chip's Folly Campground ( 39.63281, -74.49799 )
  19. Deep Run - Wharton State Forest ( 39.76288, -74.69219 )
  20. Dennis Creek - Jake's Landing ( 39.17916, -74.85133 )
  21. East Creek Pond - Dennis ( 39.22333, -74.88656 )
  22. Franklinville Lake - Franklinville ( 39.61768, -75.07867 )
  23. Gibson's Creek ( 39.35592, -74.72609 )
  24. Great Bay - Graveling Point ( 39.53949, -74.38761 )
  25. Great Bay - Great Bay Blvd ( 39.52160, -74.31849 )
  26. Great Bay - Great Bay Blvd (end) ( 39.50902, -74.32008 )
  27. Great Bay - Motts Creek ( 39.51826, -74.43637 )
  28. Great Bay - Rand's Marina ( 39.53934, -74.32614 )
  29. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Beerdley's Point ( 39.28756, -74.62664 )
  30. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Somers Point (N) ( 39.31130, -74.59272 )
  31. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Somers Point (S) ( 39.30640, -74.60763 )
  32. Great Egg Harbor River - Camp Acagisca ( 39.49275, -74.76715 )
  33. Great Egg Harbor River - Mays Landing ( 39.44940, -74.72489 )
  34. Great Egg Harbor River - New Brooklyn ( 39.70187, -74.93732 )
  35. Great Egg Harbor River - Penny Pot ( 39.57547, -74.82239 )
  36. Great Egg Harbor River - Piney Hollow Rd ( 39.62049, -74.89280 )
  37. Great Egg Harbor River - Weymouth ( 39.51339, -74.77889 )
  38. Hammonton Lake ( 39.63010, -74.78734 )
  39. Indian Mills Lake ( 39.79554, -74.73998 )
  40. Inside Thorofare - Atlantic City ( 39.35533, -74.45687 )
  41. Inside Thorofare - Ventnor ( 39.34593, -74.47623 )
  42. Lake Absegami - Bass River ( 39.62529, -74.42760 )
  43. Lake Lenape - Mays Landing ( 39.46187, -74.73755 )
  44. Lake Nummy - Belleplain ( 39.24691, -74.85720 )
  45. Lakes Bay - Ventnor ( 39.35318, -74.48744 )
  46. Longport Dog Beach ( 39.30741, -74.55738 )
  47. Ludlam Thorofare - Sea Isle City ( 39.14373, -74.70499 )
  48. Makepeace Lake ( 39.54717, -74.75058 )
  49. Malaga Lake - Newfield ( 39.57878, -75.05643 )
  50. Manahawkin Lake - Stafford ( 39.69641, -74.26116 )
  51. Maurice River - Alliance Beach ( 39.50198, -75.07976 )
  52. Maurice River - Garden Road ( 39.52199, -75.07329 )
  53. Maurice River - Mauricetown ( 39.28730, -74.98763 )
  54. Maurice River - Milleville ( 39.37706, -75.03671 )
  55. Maurice River - Sharp St ( 39.40012, -75.05345 )
  56. Maurice River - West Side Park ( 39.49608, -75.07611 )
  57. Maurice River - Willow Grove ( 39.54996, -75.07146 )
  58. Miller Creek ( 39.25262, -74.62715 )
  59. Mullica River - Batsto ( 39.63973, -74.65889 )
  60. Mullica River - Crowley Landing ( 39.62640, -74.61922 )
  61. Mullica River - Hay Road Beach ( 39.57349, -74.53943 )
  62. Mullica River - Sweetwater Marina ( 39.62171, -74.62512 )
  63. Nacote Creek - Port Republic ( 39.51768, -74.49363 )
  64. Oswego Lake - Penn State Forest ( 39.73454, -74.49111 )
  65. Oswego River - Martha Bridge ( 39.68159, -74.51416 )
  66. Patcong Creek - Bargaintown Pond ( 39.36083, -74.57569 )
  67. Patcong Creek - Belhaven ( 39.34363, -74.58752 )
  68. Patcong Creek - New Road ( 39.30470, -74.62031 )
  69. Reeds Bay - Absecon ( 39.44306, -74.46194 )
  70. Scull Bay - Bridge Out ( 39.34668, -74.55683 )
  71. Somers Bay - Brigantine ( 39.40916, -74.36937 )
  72. Stafford Forge WMA - Manahawkin ( 39.66881, -74.32090 )
  73. Stephen Creek ( 39.38564, -74.73649 )
  74. Stephen Creek - Maple Lake ( 39.40547, -74.77808 )
  75. Stephen Creek - Stephen Lake ( 39.39556, -74.74907 )
  76. Strathmere Bay - Strathmere ( 39.19447, -74.66326 )
  77. Tennessee Ave - Ocean City ( 39.27051, -74.60393 )
  78. Tuckahoe River - Corbin City ( 39.29883, -74.75319 )
  79. Tuckahoe River - Tuckahoe ( 39.29545, -74.74010 )
  80. Union Lake - Millville (E) ( 39.40677, -75.05152 )
  81. Union Lake - Millville (W) ( 39.40812, -75.06712 )
  82. Wading River - Beaver Branch ( 39.65059, -74.51890 )
  83. Wading River - Bodine Field Road ( 39.65401, -74.52497 )
  84. Wading River - Evans Bridge ( 39.67517, -74.54066 )
  85. Wading River - Godfrey Bridge ( 39.68987, -74.54612 )
  86. Wading River - Harrisville Pond ( 39.66547, -74.52434 )
  87. Wading River - Hawkins Bridge ( 39.71442, -74.56595 )
  88. Wilson Lake - Glassboro ( 39.65715, -75.05088 )

Great Bay
( 39.52635, -74.35076 )

  1. Absecon Creek - Absecon ( 39.42635, -74.48653 )
  2. Atlantic City - Huron Ave ( 39.38023, -74.42392 )
  3. Barnegat Bay - Beach Haven ( 39.57015, -74.23933 )
  4. Barnegat Bay - Brant Beach ( 39.61673, -74.20110 )
  5. Barnegat Bay - Great Bay Blvd ( 39.56316, -74.34202 )
  6. Barnegat Bay - Little Egg Harbor ( 39.53556, -74.26441 )
  7. Barnegat Bay - Parkertown ( 39.60978, -74.29231 )
  8. Barnegat Bay - Tuckerton ( 39.57671, -74.33078 )
  9. Barnegat Bay - West Creek ( 39.63100, -74.29618 )
  10. Bass River - New Gretna ( 39.57721, -74.45079 )
  11. Cedar Run - Stafford ( 39.64365, -74.24592 )
  12. Chip's Folly Campground ( 39.63281, -74.49799 )
  13. Great Bay - Graveling Point ( 39.53949, -74.38761 )
  14. Great Bay - Great Bay Blvd ( 39.52160, -74.31849 )
  15. Great Bay - Great Bay Blvd (end) ( 39.50902, -74.32008 )
  16. Great Bay - Motts Creek ( 39.51826, -74.43637 )
  17. Great Bay - Rand's Marina ( 39.53934, -74.32614 )
  18. Lake Absegami - Bass River ( 39.62529, -74.42760 )
  19. Mullica River - Hay Road Beach ( 39.57349, -74.53943 )
  20. Nacote Creek - Port Republic ( 39.51768, -74.49363 )
  21. Reeds Bay - Absecon ( 39.44306, -74.46194 )
  22. Somers Bay - Brigantine ( 39.40916, -74.36937 )
  23. Stafford Forge WMA - Manahawkin ( 39.66881, -74.32090 )

The Great Bay Boulevard Wildlife Management Area in Ocean County is 5,982 acres of fresh, brackish and saltwater estuary and islands acquired with funding from hunters and anglers, Green Acres and the sale of waterfowl stamps. The boulevard is a narrow two-lane road that was the beginning of a causeway to the shore that would have connected Great Bay to Atlantic City.

The road was never opened, but now provides access to a great sweep of salt marsh, with opportunities for fishing, birdwatching or simply enjoying the beautiful scenery. Great Bay is considered one of the least-disturbed marine wetland habitats in the northeastern United States.

-- NJDEP


Great Egg Harbor River
( 39.51470, -74.72818 )

  1. Gibson's Creek ( 39.35592, -74.72609 )
  2. Great Egg Harbor Bay - Beerdley's Point ( 39.28756, -74.62664 )
  3. Great Egg Harbor River - Camp Acagisca ( 39.49275, -74.76715 )
  4. Great Egg Harbor River - Mays Landing ( 39.44940, -74.72489 )
  5. Great Egg Harbor River - New Brooklyn ( 39.70187, -74.93732 )
  6. Great Egg Harbor River - Penny Pot ( 39.57547, -74.82239 )
  7. Great Egg Harbor River - Piney Hollow Rd ( 39.62049, -74.89280 )
  8. Great Egg Harbor River - Weymouth ( 39.51339, -74.77889 )
  9. Lake Lenape - Mays Landing ( 39.46187, -74.73755 )
  10. Patcong Creek - New Road ( 39.30470, -74.62031 )

Mullica River
( 39.64116, -74.57847 )

  1. Atsion Lake - Pinelands ( 39.73989, -74.73128 )
  2. Batsto Lake - Batsto ( 39.64682, -74.65327 )
  3. Batsto River - Wharton State Forest ( 39.71014, -74.66747 )
  4. Great Bay - Graveling Point ( 39.53949, -74.38761 )
  5. Great Bay - Motts Creek ( 39.51826, -74.43637 )
  6. Mullica River - Batsto ( 39.63973, -74.65889 )
  7. Mullica River - Crowley Landing ( 39.62640, -74.61922 )
  8. Mullica River - Hay Road Beach ( 39.57349, -74.53943 )
  9. Mullica River - Sweetwater Marina ( 39.62171, -74.62512 )

Paddlin' in the Pines
( 39.70208, -74.42738 )

  1. Batsto Lake - Batsto ( 39.64682, -74.65327 )
  2. Batsto River - Wharton State Forest ( 39.71014, -74.66747 )
  3. Cedar Creek - Berkeley ( 39.90248, -74.24513 )
  4. Cedar Creek - Lanoka Harbor ( 39.86936, -74.17065 )
  5. Great Egg Harbor River - Penny Pot ( 39.57547, -74.82239 )
  6. Great Egg Harbor River - Weymouth ( 39.51339, -74.77889 )

This map shows the three trips described in this article

by Andrée Jannette

New Jersey Outdoors
Spring 1998
$4.25

If you don't know how to turn your canoe on a dime when you put in at your first Pinelands river, you will by the time you finish. These are narrow, winding rivers, full of sweeping curves and sharply angled switchbacks. Yet these twists and turns are very much a part of the mystique and the delight of paddling in New Jersey's Pinelands.


Cohansey River
( 39.45161, -75.29945 )

  1. Bostwick Lake - Cohansey River ( 39.52842, -75.26801 )
  2. Cohansey River - Bridgeton ( 39.42658, -75.23626 )
  3. Cohansey River - Dix WMA ( 39.37361, -75.29350 )
  4. Cohansey River - Ragged Island St. ( 39.36792, -75.35818 )
  5. Sunset Lake - Cohansey River ( 39.44637, -75.23975 )