Beach Tags 2025
Beach tags are required for everyone 12 and older who uses the beach between 10 AM and 5 PM from Friday of Memorial Weekend to Monday of Labor Day Weekend. Beach tags are reciprocal between Avalon and Stone Harbor.
SEASONAL TAGS: 2025 Avalon beach tags carry a pre-season price of $32 until May 31st, 2025. As of June 1st, 2025, the price for a seasonal tag will be $40.
DAILY TAGS: The cost of a daily beach tag will be $8.
WEEKLY TAGS: The cost of a weekly tag, $17.
No refunds are offered for a beach tag purchase under any circumstance.
Seasonal beach tags will be available for purchase on March 1st, 2024. From March 1st through April 26th, you may purchase beach tags at the Avalon Tax Collector’s Office located inside Avalon Borough Hall, 3100 Dune Drive. Cash, checks, and credit cards are accepted. Beach tags may be purchased in person at the Avalon Beach Tag Booth adjacent to Community Hall at 30th Street and the Beach on weekends starting March 30th. From April 27th through the remainder of the summer, the Beach Tag Booth will be open daily. From March 1st through May 10th only, you may mail a check to the Avalon Tax Collector’s office, 3100 Dune Drive, Avalon, NJ 08202, for your beach tags; you will be mailed a receipt which can be exchanged at the Beach Tag Booth for actual beach tags. Please send a self-addressed envelope with your check in order for us to return the receipt to you.
Partnership with Jersey Cape Diagnostic, Training, and Opportunity Center:
You may purchase your beach tags online and have the actual tags delivered to your home. Avalon has a partnership with the Jersey Cape Diagnostic, Training, and Opportunity Center. Please visit: https://jersey-cape-tags.myshopify.com/collections/currentbeachtagsbadges
Each spring, the Center will receive a supply of seasonal beach tags from the Boroough for sale. The tags can be purchased through the website with a credit card. The customer will be charged a very small convenience fee, and a shipping fee determined by the method of shipping that the customer selects.
Free Veterans Beach Tags/Active Military
The Avalon Borough Council approved an ordinance that results in free beach tags being offered to all veterans of the United States Military. This ordinance went into effect in advance of the 2014 beach season, and continues to be in effect in the Borough.
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 complimentary beach access for the current beach season in Avalon. Appropriate documentation includes: DD-214, or any of the following:
–Cape May County Veterans card, issued by the county
-Active/retired/reserved military identification card
–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 access to active members of the United States Armed Forces and their immediate family members. Please note that for the 2018 beach season, veterans and active military mentioned above may simply show these forms of identification to a beach tag checker in lieu of obtaining a beach tag.
