[1] It intersects with Commonwealth Boulevard, which provides access to the Leisure Village West-Pine Lake Park community, before crossing into Toms River.

[1] Route 37 passes to the north of Holiday City - Silver Ridge Park, an age-restricted community which contributes to the large population of senior residents in the area.

Vaughn Avenue/West End Avenue (CR 627) intersects next and Route 37 runs along the border between Toms River to the north and Island Heights to the south.

[1][2] The route continues onto Pelican Island in the Barnegat Bay, crossing into a small piece of Berkeley Township.

[3] Additionally, the road sees congestion due to the area's rapid growth in commercial development.

[4] The road from Toms River to Seaside Heights was part of the Jersey Coast Way, which stretched from Cape May to the Staten Island Ferry.

[6][9] Following the 1927 renumbering, Route 37 existed in multiple separate sections: one running from the Trenton–Hamilton line to the White Horse Circle (concurrently with US 206), the crossing of Gropp Lake in Hamilton (currently a state-maintained section of CR 524), a 1⁄2-mile (0.80 km) segment between Hamilton and Upper Freehold west of Allentown (also current CR 524), a section of current CR 539 between Burlington Path Road in Upper Freehold and Hornerstown Road in Plumsted Township, and one running from Route 40 (now Route 70) in Lakehurst to Point Pleasant.

The number was dropped between Trenton and White Horse in favor of US 206, while the section between Seaside Heights and Point Pleasant became a realignment of Route 35.

It was suggested that this freeway be completed by 1975 in order to handle a rapid growth of population in Central New Jersey.