Richardson Sound
Richardson Sound is a bay in Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey. Richardson Sound is situated nearby to the village West Wildwood, as well as near the hamlet Shawcrest.Places of Interest
Highlights include The Great White and Sea Serpent.
The Great White
Photo: Dplcrnj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great White is a sit-down wooden/steel roller coaster made and built by Custom Coasters International. It has been operating since June 10, 1996 and has 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company with 6 cars per train. The Great White is situated 2½ miles southeast of Richardson Sound.
Sea Serpent
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Sea Serpent is a steel roller coaster at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey. Opened in 1984, it was built by Vekoma, and was the first boomerang-style coaster to be built in the US. Sea Serpent is situated 2½ miles southeast of Richardson Sound.
Wildwoods Convention Center
Convention center
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The Wildwoods Convention Center is a convention center and indoor arena in Wildwood, New Jersey. Built in 2001 to replace an older Convention Hall, the center has exhibition space of 260,000 sq ft. Wildwoods Convention Center is situated 2½ miles southeast of Richardson Sound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rio Grande and Whitesboro.
Rio Grande
Village
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Rio Grande is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Middle Township and Lower Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Rio Grande is situated 2 miles west of Richardson Sound.
Whitesboro
Hamlet
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Whitesboro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Middle Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Whitesboro is situated 2 miles north of Richardson Sound.
Wildwood
Wildwood is on the Southern Shore of New Jersey. It is primarily a resort town whose population swells in the summer months with vacationers coming mainly from New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Quebec.
Richardson Sound
- Type: Bay
- Also known as: “Richardsons Sound”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.00872° or 39° 0′ 31″ northLongitude
-74.8435° or 74° 50′ 37″ westOpen location code
87F72554+FHGeoNames ID
4503778
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Satellite Map
Discover Richardson Sound from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
Localities in the Area
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