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639 Audubon’s CAPE MAY BIRD & BUTTERFLYCreek Rd. MAP

see other side for / Fishing CAPE MAY BIRD Town Bank Road* / 648 North Cox Hall Creek WMA OBSERVATORY Academy Rd. NORTH Road Northwood Center CAPE MAY 701 E. Lake Drive, PO Box 3 603 / Bayshore Bayshore / 603 Cape May Point, NJ 08212 609-400-3868 Route 9 / Sandman Blvd. David 644 / Shunpike Route 9 Center for Research & Education Douglass 626 / Seashore Road Park 600 Route 47 North Cape May Court House, NJ 08210 Cape May – Lewes Route 9 609-427-3006 P Ferry Terminal INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY 17 miles to Open Year Round - Call for Hours Lewes, DE www.BirdCapeMay.org P www.njaudubon.org Morning Route 1 Flight Project . 641 / New and Rd P = parking Platform 641 / New Engl 09 P P Rd. = butterfly P watching sites 1 4 Cape May NWR

Batts Ln. STATE Rd. Rd. shore 2 GARDEN *Two Mile Unit CAPE PARKWAY 5 (see other side) 3 621 / Drive

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Shunpike Rd. Shunpike to Cape Marina Higbee Beach / 607 Valley” TNC and Wildwood Wildlife Garrett Management Family Area Preserve 09 1 Davey’s Miss Chris Lake Marina 626 / Seashore Road CAPE MAY Stimpson P Lane / 645 BAY Wilson St. HARBOR Pond Creek P Rea Farm Old P ("The Beanery") Texas Magnesite Ave. P Private property 622 / Pittsburgh 606 / Plant Cape May Bird Observatory Open to CMBO Concrete Northwood Center 640 / DelawareNature Ave. Center of Cape May Sunset P and NJAS Brooklyn Ave. Ship Visitor Information/Nature Store NJ Audubon Society Blvd. 701 East Lake Drive Bayshore membersRd. ONLY Cape May Point, NJ 08212 1600 Delaware Avenue Cape WEST Ave. 609-884-2736 Cape May, NJ 08204 Fourth Ave. Creek Alexander Ave. Stevens St. CAPE Cape Island 607 / 609-898-8848 MAY 606 / Sunset Blvd. St. Grove Ave. Ave. 633 / Lafayette St. P POVERTY BEACH Pavilion Circle Light- house New Jersey Ave.

Gardens Broadway Lake Pond Cape May Point The Nature Conservancy's 653 / Madison Cape May Ave. Lily Lighthouse Ave. South Cape May W. Perry State Park Columbia 604 / Meadows Pool CAPE Cape May Beach Ave. Plover Hawkwatch P 626 / Perry StocktonCAPE MAY Ponds MallJackson Ocean POINT P Mt. Vernon MAY St. Peter’s Jetty Bunker 604 / Beach Ave. Coral Ave. Jetty Pond St. Mary’s Jetty Triangle Park 2nd Avenue Jetty 0 1/2 1 mile ©2018 Gibson Landing CAPE MAY BIRD OBSERVATORY FORSYTHE CORBIN CITY A IMPOUNDMENTS. NWR TUCKAHOE WMA

BIRD AND BUTTERFLY South Egg HarborGreat J PARKWAY Great Creek MAP TO CAPE MAY COUNTY River Road Route 9 Jimmie Leed's (& FORSYTHE NWR) Road Pitney Road A TUCKAHOE WMA & CORBIN Rt. 50 Griscom Mill Rd. PEASLEE CORBIN CITY IMPOUNDMENTS WMA CITY Rt. 49 GSP Exit 41 Rt 50 to Rt 631 (Tuckahoe entrance). Tuckahoe River Rt. 50 to Griscom Mill Rd. (Corbin City Cedar Swamp Creek entrance). Narrow driving dikes at both sites TUCKAHOE Weatherby Rd. WMA with freshwater impoundments (waterfowl) Rt. 49 548 TUCKAHOE A North MAP TO FORSYTHE on one side and tidal saltmarsh on other. (or Brigantine) NWR Winter: Short-Eared Owls, eagles and other From raptors. Spring: warblers. (About 1.5 hours Rt. 9 (north or southbound) 557 Rt. 50 GARDEN STATE from Cape May) 664 631 605 B BELLEPLAIN STATE FOREST 610 J FORSYTHE From Rt 47, take Rt 557 N (mm 20.1) about Rt. 9 (BRIGANTINE) NWR BELLEPLAIN 3 mi. At Rt 550 W turn left, about 1.5 B Rt. 50 Use new Exit 41 on Garden STATE FOREST miles to entrance on left. Bathroom and FIELD OFFICE State Parkway. At exit ramp map inside. Excellent for spring 550 550 WOODBINE 610 light go east onto Great Creek southern swamp warblers (About OCEAN CITY Rd. Continue to entrance (fee). 1 hour from Cape May) Sunset 550 (About 1.5 hours from Cape May) C Rd. JAKES LANDING BELLEPLAIN SEAVILLE STATE FOREST B K CMBO'S AVALON From Cape May take Rt 47 N Pine to mm 19.8; left onto Jakes Landing Swamp STRATHMERE SEA WATCH Rd. Rt. 9 Parkway Exit 13. Go east into Avalon.

Rd. From GSP, Exit 10 to Rt 657 E 611 Rt. 347 550 to intersection Rt 47; right to 557 638 Left at 2nd light onto Dr, Right mm 19.8; left onto Jakes onto 8th Street. View from the beach West Creek 610 between 8th and 9th Streets (near the jetty). Landing Rd. Upland land OCEAN birds, marsh for rails, Salt- Rt.47 Jakes DENNISVILLE VIEW Garden State Pkwy. Seabird watch mid-September to mid- marsh sparrows, raptors. Landing Rt.47 Exit 17 December with up to 1 million birds tallied. Rd. SOUTH Southbound (About 1 hour from Cape May) DENNIS Bring scope and scan the horizon. (About East Creek JAKES C only LANDING Rt. 9 40 minutes from Cape May)

Rt.47 Rt. 83 D Sluice CLERMONT BEAVER SWAMP WMA Creek From Rt 47 turn at traffic light onto L Dennis SEA ISLE SHELL BAY LANDING Rt 657 (Courthouse-Dennisville Rd), Creek D BEAVER CITY CAPE MAY SWAMP Parkway Exit 9, from north turn left at exit, quick left onto Gravel Hole Rd, very BIRD OBSERVATORY WMA from south turn left on Golf Club Rd, then

Center for Research 657 quick right onto Beaver Dam Rd & Education E right on Shell Bay. View back bay marshes (becomes road). At end, walk onto and sounds for shorebirds (Whimbrels dam to view lake, Bald Eagle nest, creek, GOSHEN Townsend's late April-May and late July-August) and GOSHEN Rt. 9 Inlet marsh. (About 45 min from Cape May) LANDING Exit waterfowl. (About 20 min from Cape May) 601 13 CMBO'S AVALON Rt. 47 Rt. 646 K E CMBO CENTER FOR SEA WATCH 657 M WETLANDS INSTITUTE RESEARCH & EDUCATION Parkway Parkway Exit 10. Follow At Rt 47 mm 15.8, center showcases backyard Reeds Beach G AVALON signs east toward Stone Harbor, Institute habitat wildlife garden, birdfeeding station, Great Dune Drive is on right. (About 25 min from Cape May) classroom, bookstore, wildlife art exhibit. Cooks Exit Beach 615 (About 40 min from Cape May) G 11 CAPE MAY N STONE HARBOR POINT NWR OFFICE Hand Ave. Exit 10 F CAPE MAY NWR G STONE Parkway Exit 10. Follow signs east to Kimbles F 658 657 HARBOR Beach BLVD. Stone Harbor. At 2nd Ave turn right at traffic light. Numerous trails, stop at office on Kimbles CAPE MAY Beach Rd for map & directions. Trail head COURT Exit Continue to end and turn left into parking lot. HOUSE 9 Good year round birding. Beach fee during summer begins at Woodcock Ln, mm 10.2 Rt 47. Pierce's SHELL BAY DIAS LANDING M STONE months. (About 35 min from Cape May) (About 30 min from Cape May) Point G CREEK L Wetlands HARBOR Indian Trail Rd. Jenkins Institute Sound G Rt. 9 O NUMMY’S ISLAND SHOREBIRD & HORSESHOE Rt. 47 618 NUMMY'S CRAB VIEWING: Reed’s Beach, ISLAND 2nd Ave. Parkway Exit 10. Follow signs east to Stone G.S.Pkwy O Harbor. At 3rd Ave turn right at traffic light, continue Cook’s Beach, Norbury’s Landing N Rt. 147 STONE south over bridge. At base of bridge, pull well off shoulder Many roped off May-early GREEN Exit 6 619 CREEK HARBOR Norburys 642 South- POINT for viewing. From Stone Harbor Point, exit lot onto 2nd Ave, June; stay within boundaries. Landing G Burleigh Ave. bound left on 118th St, left at stop sign, over bridge. Residential area, be considerate only 603 Hereford Inlet (About 35 min from Cape May) of parking. Park in marina lot (small fee) end of Reed’s Beach. RIO Grassy P GRANDE Sound

H Rt. 47 From south end Garden State Parkway follow signs east COX HALL CREEK WMA 603 654 Exit 4 Take Rt 626 to Academy Road (639). NORTH for Ocean Drive (Rt 621). Great for shorebirds, waders. VILLAS WILDWOOD Follow 639 to light at Bayshore Rt. 47 Pull well off shoulder for safe viewing. Road (603). Bear right at light FISHING 626 CREEK and take first left (Shawmount 613 Q CAPE MAY NWR ( Guard) PONDS H WILDWOOD North Ave.) after 1/3 mile. Park SUNSET Continue on Ocean Drive over bridge to ponds, entire inside gate at far end. 639 647 LAKE road great for birding. Pull well off shoulder. BAY S Rt. 9

644 603 639 DELAWARE WILDWOOD R 648 Jarvis 621 TWO MILE BEACH I CAPE MAY LEWES New Jersey Ave.CREST Sound Continue on Ocean Drive to the entrance of Cape May NWR FERRY NORTH Garden State Pkwy. CAPE MAY 626 TWO MILE BEACH Unit Two Mile Beach Unit located just south of the intersection Crosses Delaware Bay (90 109 R of Cape May NWR of Madison and Pacific Avenues. Park in the second minute trip); great seabird FERRY I Rt. 9 621 Q TERMINAL CAPE MAY parking lot on the left at the Visitor Contact Station. watching. Go as walk-on and P OCEAN DRIVE NWR PONDS HIGBEE bird both sides of bay. From BEACH New Cold S WMA England 622 640 COLD SUNSET LAKE Cape May, follow Rt 9 Rd. Spring Inlet SPRING Ocean Drive becomes Pacific Ave, left onto Atlanta Ave, (Sandman Blvd) JETTY 607 CAPE MAY 626 604 right onto New Jersey Ave (Rt 621). Sunset Lake on left. to entrance. (About 10 BIRD 606 633 NATURE 629 Park along curb. Waterfowl October-April. min from Cape May) OBSERVATORY CENTER OF Northwood CAPE MAY (From 10 to 20 minutes for all these from Cape May) Center CAPE MAY CITY SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR CAPE MAY CAPE MAY SOUTH POINT POINT CAPE MAY ATLANTIC ©2018 CAPE MAY POINT AREA DETAILS STATE PARK MEADOWS OCEAN 0 5 miles