Barnegat Inlet

The Barnegat Lighthouse sits at the northern end of Long Beach Island along the inlet.

[1] Historically the inlet has been important to commerce to the Barnegat Bay region, allowing ships to access centers of commerce like Toms River.

More recently, shipwrecks have attracted scuba divers to the area.

The construction of the existing jetty in the 1990s added a significant amount of land to the town of Barnegat Light, much of which was designated as parkland and now includes a bird sanctuary.

The jetty has provided stabilization to the shoreline along the inlet, but requires frequent dredging.