Camp Gateway - Sandy Hook

Clean open spaces. Good location. Restrooms well maintained Lots of hikes fishing swimming and water sports in area

Great fun observing wildlife, swimming, tanning, and camping!

From animal-proof lock box for food to carts to transport belongings from car to covered picnic table area, this campground offers amenities which enhance the camping experience. The beaches at Sandy Hook are beautiful and the views are magnificent on both the bay side and the ocean side. I will bring my kayak next time I camp here and go on the bay

Clean open spaces. Good location. Restrooms well maintained Lots of hikes fishing swimming and water sports in area

Love this place! Proximity to beach is great. When wind is calm you can hear the waves at night from some camp sites. You can also hear people loudly practicing co-ed tent wrestling at like 10am from like 50 yards away, apparently. Anyways I had set up for 1 night on 9/29/21 and loved the location so much I immediately went onto website and booked 2nd night and wished a 3rd and 4th were available. Bear boxes were great but I kept food in the car. Only raccoon I saw was super scared in the dumpster the next morning (I left tree branch in there and note on trailer in hopes rangers could help him escape..) but I heard that they got into someone's food and left big mess that morning (10/1). Bathroom was clean enough but watch out for spiders and such. Portopotty near parking lot was pretty clean, and likely prevents day time path users looking for quick relief from messing up real bathrooms in campground. Carts can be limited so make sure to bring it back to entrance before setting up gear you just brought to your site... Lots of birds and birders, and bike riders, so watch when crossing paths and roads! Quiet hours after 10pm but some people def had radio kinda loud until midnight but they were like four culdesacs away. Kinda rude but wind in trees drowned it out mostly for me...Fire pit and grills were both in good working order and useful. The two rangers that I encountered could not have been any nicer, and seems anyone who picks up the phone is really nice too. Can't wait to return in spring for like a week! Atlantic Highlands is like 15 mins away and lots of food options, some of which might even deliver to camp... Oh and bring your own wood bought in NJ, site is was not selling any supplies. Perhaps that maybe change in the spring but you should bring like 3 little bundles per night at least. I plan to bring bags to help clean up beaches next visit, as after just two nights I felt attached to this place a lot!

Love this place! Proximity to beach is great. When wind is calm you can hear the waves at night from some camp sites. You can also hear people loudly practicing co-ed tent wrestling at like 10am from like 50 yards away, apparently. Anyways I had set up for 1 night on 9/29/21 and loved the location so much I immediately went onto website and booked 2nd night and wished a 3rd and 4th were available. Bear boxes were great but I kept food in the car. Only raccoon I saw was super scared in the dumpster the next morning (I left tree branch in there and note on trailer in hopes rangers could help him escape..) but I heard that they got into someone's food and left big mess that morning (10/1). Bathroom was clean enough but watch out for spiders and such. Portopotty near parking lot was pretty clean, and likely prevents day time path users looking for quick relief from messing up real bathrooms in campground. Carts can be limited so make sure to bring it back to entrance before setting up gear you just brought to your site... Lots of birds and birders, and bike riders, so watch when crossing paths and roads! Quiet hours after 10pm but some people def had radio kinda loud until midnight but they were like four culdesacs away. Kinda rude but wind in trees drowned it out mostly for me...Fire pit and grills were both in good working order and useful. The two rangers that I encountered could not have been any nicer, and seems anyone who picks up the phone is really nice too. Can't wait to return in spring for like a week! Atlantic Highlands is like 15 mins away and lots of food options, some of which might even deliver to camp... Oh and bring your own wood bought in NJ, site is was not selling any supplies. Perhaps that maybe change in the spring but you should bring like 3 little bundles per night at least. I plan to bring bags to help clean up beaches next visit, as after just two nights I felt attached to this place a lot!

Lots of historic places around. Have to bring your own fire wood. It's very peaceful.

Lots of historic places around. Have to bring your own fire wood. It's very peaceful.

I liked our tent site the best out of all of the other locations (e20) however the fact that you can’t park your car- or even drive down to simply unload your car then move it- was VERY inconvenient. It was almost 100 degrees when we went and walking back and forth down that long road to the farthest tent site was very arduous. The site was also filled with this red sand that I’ve never seen in NJ. We had a very hard time getting it off our hands and feet. Unfortunately we will not be returning for those reasons.

Great camping so close to a metropolitan area.