Guides · Cape May and the Jersey Shore
Cape May and the Jersey Shore
25 places · 6 areas · any 7 stops free, then $4.99 for the whole city · offline map 12.9 MB
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An example half day
7 of the highlights, 1 day, about 1.4 mi (2.2 km), planned by the app's own engine and shown here with their guide. In the app you choose your own.
Day 1 · ~1.4 mi (2.2 km)
1
Cape May Historic District
the whole city; Victorian seaside resort rebuilt after the fires of 1869 and 1878
Walk the side streets off Beach Avenue, especially around Columbia and Hughes Streets, and read the houses: porches, towers, brackets and gingerbread trim, many painted in bright Victorian colors.
2
Emlen Physick Estate
1048 Washington St; Frank Furness' Stick style mansion of 1879, guided tours year-round
Take the guided tour through the furnished rooms, then walk around the outside to look up at the roofline and the huge chimneys.
3
Cape May Fireman's Museum
Washington St at Franklin St; one-room fire museum with a restored 1928 pumper
Look over the restored 1928 American LaFrance pumper, the old gear and the patches sent in from fire departments across the country.
4
Harriet Tubman Museum
632 Lafayette St; museum of Tubman's time in Cape May and the Underground Railroad
Go through the exhibits on Harriet Tubman's work in Cape May and on the Black community that lived and worked in the resort town.
5
Colonial House
653 1/2 Washington St; house of about 1730, home of the Greater Cape May Historical Society
Step inside to see the old tavern room and the colonial kitchen and bedroom spaces set up by the historical society.
6
Washington Street Mall
beside Congress Hall; three-block pedestrian street of shops and restaurants since 1971
Stroll the three blocks from Ocean Street to Perry Street, stop for ice cream or fudge, and look up at the upper floors of the old commercial buildings.
7
Congress Hall
Beach Ave at the Washington Street Mall; 1879 brick hotel, Benjamin Harrison's Summer White House
Walk the long colonnaded veranda and the lawn facing the ocean, then step into the lobby to see the hotel's history displayed along the halls.
More of the top sights
A few of the 25 places in the full guide. Each one has its own written guide in the app: what to do, what to notice, the history, and why it hits.
Cape May Lighthouse
Cape May Point State Park; working lighthouse of 1859 with 199 steps to the gallery
Atlantic City Boardwalk
Absecon Inlet to Ventnor; the first boardwalk in the US, opened in 1870, about 5.5 miles along the beach
Lucy the Elephant
9200 Atlantic Ave, Margate City; 65-foot elephant building of 1881, a National Historic Landmark
Wildwood Boardwalk
Wildwood; 1.8-mile boardwalk of piers, rides and arcades above a wide free beach
Areas
Cape May · Cape May Point · Lower Township · The Wildwoods · Atlantic City · Margate
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