Ship Bottom is known as the "Gateway to Long Beach Island" because of the causeway that connects the mainland to the borough. The less than 1 square mile shore town gets its name from a 1817 shipwreck ...

Long Beach Island’s borough of Ship Bottom has almost mythical origins. As legend has it — and Ship Bottom’s municipal website — in March 1817, Capt. Stephen Willets and his schooner crew were sailing ...

COST: $7 daily; $20 weekly; $10 senior badges (65 and older); $30 seasonally prior to May 31 and $40 thereafter; free for children 12 and younger. Badges are required for Ocean and Bay beaches. BEACH ...

SHIP BOTTOM - Borough beaches and playgrounds have closed to the public to keep people from gathering during the coronavirus pandemic. Ship Bottom has joined a growing list of localities opting to ...

SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. — A $128 million project to widen beaches and shore up dunes on Long Beach Island has been moved up four months to April. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers previously planned to begin ...

Despite acknowledging that all the old military ordnance may not have been recovered from the sands of Surf City and Ship Bottom beaches, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's safe to hit the ...