Avalon Beach Information for 2017 Summer Season

Beach Tags 2017

To partially offset the cost of maintaining and protecting its beaches for your enjoyment, Avalon and Stone Harbor requires that beach tags be worn by all using the beach, 12 years or older, 10 AM to 5 PM, starting the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend through September  4, 2017.

Pre-season beach tags may be purchased weekend beginning April 2, 2016, at the Avalon Beach Tag Booth at Community Hall. Other beach tags may be purchased daily April 23 through September 1 at the booth on or beginning the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend from Beach Tag Inspectors on the Beach.

Beach Tag Fees are:

• Season Tag: $23.00 (if purchased before June 1)
• Season Tag: $28.00 (effective June 1)
• Weekly Tag: $12.00 (Saturday through Saturday)
• Daily Tag: $ 6.00

Beach tags are reciprocal between Avalon and Stone Harbor.

Seasonal beach tags can also be ordered through the mail each Spring. Please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope, along with a check to: Avalon Tax Office/Beach Tags, 3100 Dune Drive, Avalon, NJ 08202. Make your check payable to: Borough of Avalon. Please indicate how many seasonal beach tags you are ordering at the $22 pre-season price. You will be mailed a receipt from the tax office. During your next visit to Avalon, redeem your receipt for the number of beach tags that you ordered. Actual beach tags are not sent through the mail. Weekly and daily tags cannot be ordered through the mail.

Free Vet­er­ans Beach Tags/Active Military

The Avalon Bor­ough Coun­cil approved a new ordi­nance that results in free beach tags being offered to all vet­er­ans of the United States Mil­i­tary. This ordi­nance will be in effect for the 2014 beach sea­son. The ordi­nance was passed dur­ing a 5–0 vote at the Avalon Bor­ough Coun­cil meet­ing on Feb­ru­ary 26th, 2014.

The new law allows beach com­mu­ni­ties in New Jer­sey to offer reduced price or free beach tags to any indi­vid­ual who has served in any of the Armed Forces of the United States who were dis­charged or released under con­di­tions other than dis­hon­or­able and who either have served at least 90 days in active duty or have been dis­charged or released from active duty by rea­son of a service-incurred injury or disability.

Avalon will make the free beach tags avail­able at the Avalon Beach Tag Booth located next to Avalon Com­mu­nity Hall at 30th Street and the beach. Vet­er­ans will sim­ply need to show appro­pri­ate doc­u­men­ta­tion to receive their free beach tag for the 2014 beach sea­son in Avalon. Appro­pri­ate doc­u­men­ta­tion includes: DD-214, or any of the following:

• Cape May County Vet­er­ans card, issued by the county
• Amer­i­can Legion card
• VFW card
• Viet­nam Vet­er­ans of Amer­ica card
• Dis­abled Vet­er­ans of Amer­ica card
• Marine Corps League card

Avalon con­tin­ues its prac­tice of offer­ing free beach tags to active mem­bers of the United States Armed Forces and their immedi­ate fam­ily members.