The Wildwoods

The Wildwoods are a group of five communities (four distinct municipalities and one census-designated place) in Cape May County, New Jersey.

These Jersey Shore communities have relatively small year-round populations that swell significantly during the summer with vacationers.

All of the communities are part of the greater Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.

From north to south, the five communities are: The Wildwoods is home to over 200 motels, built during the Doo-Wop era of the 1950s and 1960s,[7] in an area recognized by the state of New Jersey known as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District.

[8] The term doo-wop was coined by Cape May's Mid-Atlantic Center For The Arts in the early 1990s to describe the unique, space-age architectural style, which is also referred to as the Googie or populuxe style.